A long time
has passed since I last posted on this rather small blog which was intended to
be a regular update on my Bretonnian army progression. This reason for this was
a rather painful back injury that required morphine and some exams I had to sit
taking up the vast majority of my time, thus relegating my brave Knights and
rather dirty peasants to their respective boxes until such a time came that I could
do them the justice they require!
Now that
time has come and for the last month or so I have been active on the forums
that I lurk and with my brush flailing away with red and blue and now I have
got the time to update my blog I thought that the time was ripe!
Firstly my
Super-Lance/Pain Train is completed: 14 Knights of the Realm a Sorceress and a
Paladin make for a rather hard hitting force that in theory can break almost
any unit they come across provided they charge! Sporting the blue and red of Carcassonne,
they are a rather cool sight as they charge across the battlefield meeting out
death on those foolish enough to challenge our might!
However this
is where my Green Knight Paladin has encountered a few issues. The idea was for
him to sport blue, white and red on his barding and a red and white on his
torso while the crests on his head and his horse were going to be painted a
bright red, orange and yellow to give the impression of flowing flame.
Unfortunately
I figured out that orange isn’t as easy to dry brush with as the darker or more
solid colours I normally use and so rather than have a bright red highlighted
with orange I instead have a murkey-reddish-brown-orange colour (which in
itself isn’t nasty just not very bright) with some very dubious yellow
highlights!
I am hoping
that once I get the rest of the model painted it will look ok but if not I’m
afraid this poor chap is going to have a swim in the paint stripper for the 3rd
time in his life (got to love metal models!).
That brings
me nicely onto the prospect of a new Bretonnian book! Rumours are abound of
when we will receive it but there does seem to be good odds for this summer!
Even more debate rages on what we will get in this new book!
The biggest
split between the community so far seems to be if we need foot Knights or not:
many feel we need them to make certain games (Watchtower) possible while others
think that our Grail Pilgrims should just get a boost to make them a little bit
more competitive and retain the heavy cavalry list that we currently have.
I am on the
fence! I certainly don’t want to see our list become The Empire in different
clothes nor turn away from our list being a Cavalry one but I can see the logic
in popping some Foot Knights in there both for gaming purposes and purely to
sell new models.
Other
arguments involve war machines and the possible inclusion of some Crossbowmen?
Who knows, Games Workshop in their infinite wisdom…..yeah, in their wisdom will
undoubtedly get it perfect or utterly wrong, there seems little ground for in-between
these days!
And while I haven’t
got around to much painting, I have managed to paint my Empathy Paladin who is
looking heroic and ready to club some vile Orcs or Vampires to a pulp and also
convert a model to represent him on a horse, who may be my General! Not sure
yet, I need someone suitably heroic and that seems a rather illusive thing to
achieve!
Will
continue to update as and when things happen but for now, Ta-ta!
Kind Regards
Viscount “Wolf”
Blackwood
