Hello Sports Fans,
What is on the agenda today? Well as the title somewhat hints at...what has itty bitty battlefields? Well Warmaster of course! That's right, we are back talking about Warmaster, one of the all time favorite games to come from GW. Released back in 2000, during the heyday of GW (in my humble opinion), Warmaster brings the fantastic armies of the Old World into 10mm goodness.
Warmaster unfortunately was dropped by GW quite a while ago along with most of their Specialist Games range. However, the Living Rulebook is still available on the web, and fans have released a set of rules called Warmaster Revolution. Also, there are some other manufacturers that make 10mm fantasy minis that can be used for Warmaster as well. So while considered a "dead" game, it is still possible to enjoy it.
Back when I started with Warmaster, I immediately went with the Undead army. Now at that time, in Warhammer Fantasy Battle, the Undead book covered both the vampires and the Khemri armies all in one book. The Warmaster undead though were all Khemri forces. In fact, they really expanded on the types of units in Warmaster, beyond what was in WFB. The army had it all. Beyond your normal infantry and cavalry units, the army had chariots, flying carrion, a bone giant, and the sphinx. And it also had two artillery units as well. To me, it was a very complete army and just looked cool on the table.
Well, I got to bust them out of the storage box and lay them out on the game table once more. I suckered Robert into a learning game, just using starter box forces. Robert choose to use the Orcs and Goblins that I had. Out of the various starter armies, those two are actually close in points, and both were painted. I set up a nice 3x4 area for our game, gave him a rules primer, and off we went.
I won't bore you with the details as it was a learning game, but what I will say, is that it was lots of fun, it looked great, and we ended up with a nice tie at the end. In fact, despite Robert failing about 60% of his command roles, he still forces my army to retreat off the table. I was lucky enough to kill/hurt enough of his stuff to tie VPs.
Lately, I went a little crazy and started buying up more armies. I've had three for quite some time, my undead, orcs and gobs, and a chaos army. I've now added a high elf army and an empire army as well. Unfortunately for me, Warmaster has truly become a collector series now, so prices are way higher than they used to be and people that sell are typically looking for collector value. But like I said before, if you don't mind using 3rd party figs, there are some out there, and they do look good. But for now, I have plenty of models to start painting and getting ready to play.
Well, until next time folks.
