Antenociti's Workshop

I found this company on the internet whilst searching for some matt varnish. They sell a massive range of scratch building, brushes, flock and other basing products. The website says 1123 products and counting.

At the moment only purchased some cans of Testors Dull Cote. The service was excellent. I will be using this company a lot more in the future.

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KaiserRushforth

I needed some foam trays for my Ogre army, after looking at the GW cases I found that they were only really suitable for 20-25mm bases, not Ogre 40mm bases. I had a dig around on the internet and discovered an excellent supplier of transport cases and foam trays.

KaiserRushforth Ltd are a company based in Colchester, Essex, UK.

At the moment I have only purchased some foam trays and have to say the quality of product and service is excellent. Their products include card and aluminum transport cases, spare trays to fit both their cases and GW cases. The trays come in various sizes and depths, suitable for any size of miniature.

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Chapel Building

My wife bought me the Warhammer Chapel for Valentines Day 2009. I will be taking a break from painting my Ogres to build and paint.

This will fit nicely into my plans for building a gaming table at home with some scenery pieces. Now have to get some hills, trees and may be the watch tower or arcane runes.

Pictures will be posted on the blog once complete!

Chaos Marauders

Chaos Marauders were my third core unit added to my Warriors of Chaos army.  

These were painted back in autumn 2007.

Close up shot of the command group.

Chaos Furies

Next I added a unit of six Chaos Furies. Ideal for taking out enemy war machines.

Alas these are now no longer allowed in the new Warriors of Chaos army.

Chaos Battle Standard Bearer

A Warriors of Chaos Battle Standard Bearer.

The banner was inspired by the over sized banners in the Hordes of Chaos army book.

The model is a converted Chaos Warrior.

Games Workshop released a similar miniature which can be seen in the new Warriors of Chaos Army Book, but the miniature is no longer on sale. So I had to create and convert my own miniature.

The close up shots are the best I can do with my current camera.

This miniature was originally an Aspiring Champion in my old 1000 point Hordes of Chaos Army. Now will be an Exalted Champion in my new Warriors of Chaos Army. Could even be used as a standard bearer for my Undivided Chaos Warriors unit.

Undivided Chaos Warriors

Second core unit added to my Warriors of Chaos army.

I have added another rank since these were painted back in spring 2007.

Tyrant with Tenderiser II

The previous post on this topic indicated that the Tenderiser was the option to go for. But I have made some modifications to my computer program and included the Ward Save option. Now the Chaos Lord has a 3+ Armour Save coupled with a 5+ Ward Save. The results now look completely different.

	Heavy Armour	Great Weapon	Killing Blow	Tenderiser
Ogre Tyrant	30%	42%	69%	65%
Chaos Lord	70%	48%	31%	35%

The killing blow results are almost identical within 1%, but the Tenderiser is now 15% less effective.

Now we give the Ogre Tyrant a 5+ Ward Save and these are the results.

	Heavy Armour	Great Weapon	Killing Blow	Tenderiser
Ogre Tyrant	60%	65%	82%	85%
Chaos Lord	40%	35%	18%	15%

The Tenderiser is now back to being the most effective (increased by a massive 20% because of the Ward Save) and the effectiveness of Killing Blow has increased by a 13%.

Conclusions.

1. Always give your characters a Ward Save. Upgrade options are more effective with a Ward Save. The effectiveness of killing blow was increased by 13% because the Ogre Tyrant had a 5+ ward save and stayed alive longer, therefore increasing the chances of killing blow.
   
   
2. I would still take the Tenderiser over Killing Blow. The effectiveness of both are relatively similar, but there are now magic items that give "Immune to Killing Blow", also characters unit strength 3 and above are also immune. I haven't yet seen a magic item that gives "Immune to Ogre with Tenderiser"!

Tyrant with Tenderiser

I was curious how effective the Tenderiser was over the Skullplucker which gives the Tyrant killing blow. So being a computer programmer I decided to write a computer program, this program played a number of combats between an Ogre Tyrant and a Chaos Lord with the characters having various upgrade options.

A typical combat

Ogre Tyrant attacks Chaos Lord.

Ogre Tyrant has 5 attacks, needing 4 to hit and 2 to wound.

Ogre Tyrant rolls 5 4 2 4 2

Ogre Tyrant 3 hits.

Ogre Tyrant rolls 3 2 6

Ogre Tyrant 7 wounds.

Chaos Lord armour save rolls 1 1 5 2 5 2 6

Chaos Lord Armour saves 3 wounds.

Ogre Tyrant kills Chaos Lord.

The Chaos Lord was equipped with Chaos Armour and a Shield giving a 3+ Armour Save. The Ogre Tyrant was equipped with the following.

These are the results of 300 combats for each of the Ogre Tyrant options. The figures show the nunber of combats won as a percentage.

	Heavy Armour	Great Weapon	Killing Blow	Tenderiser
Ogre Tyrant	40%	62%	68%	80%
Chaos Lord	60%	38%	32%	20%

I think the results are pretty conclusive. The Tenderiser is definitely the upgrade option to go for. I was surprised how better the Tenderiser was over Killing blow with a massive 12% increase in wins.

I will probably expand and tidy up the user interface of this program, may be also add in a unit combat option. Then at some point release the program to the public, but at the moment I am busy painting ogres.

Tournament Ogres

I have noticed on the warhammer forums that most tournaments usually allow Ogres a 2500 point limit for a 2000 point tournament depending upon the composition system. If I want to attend a tournament this year, then I am going to need another 500 points of Ogres!

I already have 2000 points of partially painted Ogres. I have amended this list to drop the Irongut lords and banners to bring in a Hunter.

The 2500 point army will include an additional Hunter, two Maneaters and a Gorger thats 490 points extra in 4 miniatures.

I always wanted to get away from the standard Tyrant and three Butcher build. I always liked the Hunter miniature also the podcast World's End Radio recently mentioned a Tyrant and three Hunter build on an episode and that got me thinking.

Chaos Spawn

I liked the idea of a Chaos Spawn in my Army.

This was also painted back in spring 2007.  My Chaos Warriors army was slowly taking shape.

Next would be another core unit of Chaos Warriors.

Khorne Chaos Warriors

First core unit of Chaos Warriors painted in a Khorne theme.

I painted this unit back in spring 2007, it was my first core unit purchased.