Slough

Miniature Wargames & Painting, Dungeon Synth - Psychedelic Rock, and other.

[anzhelo]

Foraging fashions: more mushroom caps.

From David Arora’s “All That the Rain Promises and More...a Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms”

[meanwhilebackinthedungeon]

[meanwhilebackinthedungeon]

[70sscifiart]

Paul Lehr

[oldschoolfrp]

Portals of Twilight, artist credited as “The Sorcerors Guild”, signed “Gil Dea”, Judges Guild, 1981

[weirdlandtv]

The Gown of Fea the Soul Weaver by Meredith Cook (MulchMedia).

[70sscifiart]

Wojtek Siudmak

[surrealism-love]

Almayer’s folly, 1951, Rene Magritte

[70sscifiart]

Rodney Matthews typeface

[weirdlandtv]

Argentine comics artist, Enrique Alcatena.

[vintagerpg]

I never saw Trolls of the Misty Mountains (1986) before a couple months ago, but once I did see that cover of purple and gold, with that fantastic Daniel Horne painting (whose work you probably know from Dragon Magazine covers)(a bit cartoonier than I am used to from him, but I dig it), I knew I’d stop at nothing to own it. I really love how the painting is cropped so you just get that one “I’m outta here” foot when looking at the front. Cracks me up. I can practically hear her saying “zoinks” as she takes off.

As so often happens with me and MERP books, I finally got it and…I find I have no desire to give it a close read. There are some nice illustrations and lovely maps inside, but a quick glance at the adventure looks like another dungeon crawl/exterminator run and I just don’t want to spend the time.

That said, still totally worth it for the cover.

[mastersofthe80s]

[weirdlandtv]

Images from the 1988 French sic-fi feature, Gandahar.

It was directed by René Laloux: the man behind Fantastic Planet (1973), of which I’ve posted images before. The English version, Light Years, was edited to remove some sexual elements, as innocent souls had to be protected.

[meanwhilebackinthedungeon]

[barrowwight]

[slough-fen-blog]

OldHammer Skaven Armylist.

An Warhammer 6th edition league has started in my LGS. Currently there is a Tomb-Kings and Lizardmen armies, I have been mulling over a Clan Pestilence Skaven list at 2000 points.

Lords & Heroes:

Lord Skrolk 470pts (allows Plague Monks to be Core choices)

Plague Priest: Lv.2 Wizard, Plague Furnace 285pts

Plague Priest: Lv.2 Wizard, Dispel Scroll, Great Pox Rat 190pts.

Core:

Plague Monks (24), Full Command, Magic Banner: Plague Banner 223pts.

Plague Monks (24), Full Command 193pts.

Plague Monks (24), Full Command 193pts.

Special:

Plague Censer Bearers (5) 80pts.

Plague Censer Bearers (5) 80pts.

Plague Censer Bearers (5) 80pts.

Rare:

Plague Catapult 100pts.

Plague Catapult 100pts.

Total: 1,994 pts. 

While I have over the years collected a large amount of square bases and I have enough to base the entire skaven army, but I’ve been thinking of taking a page out of the Kings of War book and work on multi-basing. While this does limit what I can do with the army and can get weird when having to deal with multi-combat and units having a full size footprints when 1-5 models are actually alive, I do think that having 5-10 models on a single base does look cool. Its still up in the air.

For the tactics of this army, it’ll be very straight forward of placing a character into each unit of Plague Monks and using the plague censers are screening units. I know when it comes to Skaven most players like to add ‘rat darts’ to flank, but I’ve always been against cheap ‘charge blockers’ as it really does break immersion that your army of warriors can’t charge because a handful of rats are in the way. 

[slough-fen-blog]

The rules to live by, you can find a great interview with Nigel Stillman here. 

http://givemlead.blogspot.com/2016/07/quest-for-stillmania-interview-with.html