The HeroQuest Hero Quest: The Sixth Orc

Or, the THIRD Heroquest orc, as I suppose this post might originally have been called as I signed up for orc number three.

Now the astute among you may notice that this means that orc number three comes after the fourth and fifth orcs, and that this means this orc is both three and six, but that's not a mistake as you might initially assume. Nor is it that I am spectacularly bad at finishing things (like, for example, blogging about a figure that has been painted for months) - what a suggestion! No, it is deliberate because it follows the infamously non-linear, occasionally non-Euclidean, and perpetually non-sensical counting pattern* of orcs themselves. I'd go into this in more detail, except the requisite chemical consumption for it to make sense is not a suitable topic for a family-friendly blog like this one.

[note from the producers : Since herding painters is even worse than herding cats, this will be the sixth orc that should have been third since the third will come later. Please don't ask.]

What's that? You want a picture of a painted miniature, not a monograph on orcish numerological peculiarities? Suit yourself. *grumble grumble* Peasants! Ignoramuses! 

The Hero Quest Hero Quest: The Fifth Orc

Hi all,

I'd like to start with a quick word of thanks to the ScaleCreepers for the invite to participate in this "event" and to guest author on this august Blog!  Cheers boys!

I guess there is supposed to be where I wax philosophical about HeroQuest and about how great it is, or was, and how discovering it changed my life and lead me down the path to proper wargamming enlightenment.

...Well I'm sorry to disappoint...but, I'm actually not that fond of HQ and had managed to avoid  playing a game of if until the summer of 2015 when AirborneGrove introduced it to me at the OHNW event in Allentoen PA...this was followed by one other notable game in the fall of 2016 that was GMed by Crooksy from the other side of the world...sadly I think I slept through the second half of that game....I got tired of watching Lopez's character fall into pit trap...after pit trap...after pit trap...zzzzzz

The HeroQuest Hero Quest: The first Orc

Hi everyone! Suber here reporting for duty! I'm coming on board of this sweet, crazy HeroQuest Hero Quest project. So let me take my hat off to all of you and get down to work.

When I was approached for this, I thought 'fuck, I've already painted all my HeroQuest minis!'. No sweat. I'm ready to strip and repaint whatever you throw at my face. Ha!

Yes, I know. The most obvious answer would have been buying more stuff. Under general circumstances I would have done so. But I was so excited I couldn't wait!

I'm in charge of an Orc. The reliable backbone of any self respected Evil Army. The quintessence of dungeoneering. The... well, you get the idea. I chose this mini as starting point:

Huh? What's wrong with me?

Dragon Metal Tag V - Dragon Rider

Now as you good readers know, there are some right talented bastards on this blog, so when it comes to a tag project it's time to pull the finger out and up your game. As Antipixi, Cheetor, Crooksy and JB were getting there dragon fetish on, I knew at some point it was going to be my turn. But I don't own a Dragon! I've never owned a Dragon! What am I going to do? I trawled through stuff of legends and considered nearly every dragon GW ever made, I thought I could do a Lava dragon twisting round a rock or an Imperial Dragon crushing a knight or a Green dragon chasing a dwarf but none of them floated my boat.

And then one night...

On eBay...

I spotted this Ugly little bastard

BATTLE REPORT: CHAOS DWARVES vs ORCS & GOBLINS

SCALE CREEP PRESENTS:

THE BATTLE FOR SCRAMBLED EGG RIDGE

A Warhammer Fantasy Battles 8th edition report with Chaos Dwarves vs Orcs and Goblins

by Captain Crook and Cheetor

Recently I visited Ireland to see Cheetor. We had planned this for a long time and had an epic battle planned. This is Scrambled Egg ridge. We didnt have the terrain to make a ridge but we assumed the couch was the edge!

 The objective of the game was to take and hold the building in the middle. Cheetor was playing his beloved army of orcs and goblins. He just loves paiting hoard armies, I can't beleive anyone would want to paint 50 goblins!!

This is Cheetors main units, he had a large unit of goblins with his general and magician. Cheetor says it's better to take goblin heroes because they are cheap, even if its not fluffy to have goblins in charge of ORCS.

Cheetor sunk a heap of points into his unit of 12 river trolls. This unit will be hard to beat.

Orc stone throwers are greatly feared across the lands. Cheetor brought three to the fight and set them as a battery on the hill.

This is a unit of high elfs we are using as a proxy for goblin wolf riders. Wolf riders are great fast cav options and can be a real thorn int he side.

On my side we have some blunderbuss warriors! And the fearsome K'daii monsters. These creatures are made of magic and fire and metal which actually burn themselves every turn and do themselves damage! They can even die!! But i forgot to roll for that in this game.

Chaos dwarves warriors, and some Black orcs. Im not sure why Chaos dwarves can use orcs but why not huh??

I took alot of hobgoblins for this game. They are cheap and can really hold up enemy forces for a while if they dont run away haha

FIRST TURN! Cheetor advances his forces but the troll unit fails it's stupidity test!! Cheetor forgot to put his general closer to let them use his LD.

The orcs and goblins advance towards the objective building/

One of the stone throwers misfired and exploded! Cheetor was really upset at this point, it wasnt his turn.

A stone misses the chaos Dwarves units by not much, it was a close call!

Turn TWO. I moved my CDs up towards the main force of orcs and goblins. CD dwarfs dont have very good movement but the hobgob units are pretty good at moving. The kdaii advance right for the worlf riders intent to smash! I fired the blunderbusses but they are far out of range. Cheetor told me that before but it;s best to check.

The trolls fail their test again! Their LD of 4 is not high.

The orcs capture the objective! Nooo! It will be a hard fight to get them out of that box.

Cheetor pushed the wold riders up in a CHARGE! The k'daii accept the charge.

ANOTHER stone thrower explodes! Cheetor almost cried whrn his battery lost another unit. I had to laugh

And that was the end of the battle! Cheetor conceeded that the game was finsihed and he had captured the objective. He was really angry about his troll s and threw the tape measure at them.

Stay tuned for the next battle treport!