Jon Grant Miniatures

The Exiled Dead: A Warhammer Underworlds Warband Review The Spitewood lay ahead, its twisted boughs knotted together to form a dark canopy. Deintalos needed supplies of Aqua Ghyranis to further his experiments with the Force Dynamic. With a silent gesture of his stave, the archwalkers lurched into the gloom of the forest. The Necrarch drifted forward at the centre of his macabre procession. Arcs of pale electricity crackled intermittently around his gaunt form, crawling across his staff and snapping through the air before fading into the shadows. Behind him clattered the Exiled Dead, each animated corpse bound to his command through the precise manipulation of the Force Dynamic. Limbs jerked and straightened as unseen energies tugged at bone and sinew, guiding their awkward strides across the forest floor. Archwalkers lurched between the trees, their unnatural gait scraping bark and snapping brittle branches as they obeyed their master’s silent instructions. Somewhere within the Spit...

Reliable Attacks in Warhammer Underworlds Welcome back to another look at the mechanics behind Warhammer Underworlds. Last time, I took a look at the durability of Warhammer Underworlds warbands, which I defined as: Durability is defined as the total number of successful 2 damage attacks required to remove all fighters in a warband. As I progressed through that analysis, I looked at how Saves adjusted this durability, and then I considered how the number of successful hits reduced the effectiveness of Saves to the point of returning the warband to its base durability. Once an attack reaches two or more successes, the defender’s Save becomes unreliable. This is the point at which the Save collapses, and the fighter’s durability drops back to its base value. This is what I now refer to as the Save Breakpoint . If you would like to read the previous article before we proceed then here is the link . Suffice to say, this led me to another question: when does an attack profile reliably resul...

February Hobby Update Painting Throughout February I continued experimenting with Contrast paints. My first project was a return to an old favourite from Warhammer Underworlds , Lady Harrow's Mournflight . They are no longer current competitively, but I wanted to see how they would look in my newer green scheme. My Emerald Host Mournflight This version is noticeably lighter than the scheme I used on Thorns of the Briar Queen , although it relies on the same core paints. The difference is mainly in application and how heavily I allowed the Contrast to settle. Once the banshees were finished, I moved on to Blood of the Bull . For these I followed a scheme demonstrated by Josh, the Warhipster, over on YouTube . It has been useful to see how someone else approaches Contrast as a primary method rather than just a supplement. Progress on my Blood of the Bull I have not quite finished the warband yet. At this stage I do not think I will continue using Contrast paints for entire miniatures...