Battlemasters Goblin Wolfriders

This seemed so lavish when I was a youngster - still does to be honest

Battlemasters is an old MB games board game produced in the early 90s.  It was the third in a series of games produced by MB games with Games Workshop, the more famous first two installments being Heroquest and Space Crusade.  I loved them all, but Battlemasters was a real success because I played far far more games of it than I ever managed of Warhammer Fantasy Battle 3rd and 4th edition. 

The premise is simple; a simplified hex based wargame with card driven movement and 100 plastic figures in the box.  Gameplay is simple and a normal game runs for about an hour. 

I think this may be where I picked up my love of games with grids. I've been playing it with the Kinchlets and we've been having a lot of fun with it. I've set myself the medium term goal of getting all the figures painted for it this year.  

It also had a pretty impressive TV ad 

Goblin Wolf riders

The Evil player has a force made up of Orks, Goblins, Beastmen and other gribblies, but their main cavalry force, beyond some Chaos Knights, are the Goblin wolf riders.  These are a fast moving, but relatively weak unit, that can nip in and harry weaker infantry units. 

I'm pleased with how the wolves turned out.  I wanted to do them in something other than grey, so doing them in a variety of browns suited me.  It was a job that was very suited to Citadel Contrast paints. Using these with a big brush and a few drybrushed highlights did the job nice and quickly. 

The riders were a little more involved.  But I based out six of 'em and the remainder of the wolves in one three hour painting stint with Savage. It was nice to get stuck into something and stick with it.  Once I got home, all I had to do was add some decals and they were done. 

Painting a swatch of colour on top of the pot is extremely handy. 

My local model shop has just started stocking AK paints and they are fabulous.  Wonderfully opaque, not prone to seperating (I see you vallejo) and just splendid strong colours.   I've totally fallen in love with them.  However, one thing that I wasn't aware of and I'm not sure if this is by design or not, but you can use the hollow in the top of the cap to put a small out of paint in.  This makes it much easier to tell paints apart at a glance.