Jon Grant Miniatures

  Warhammer Underworlds - Analysis Series - Guard By Jon Grant 1st May 2026 A few months ago, I started writing my Warhammer Underworlds Analysis Series . Here, I sought to uncover some of the maths buried in the game as a mechanism to influence decision‑making. The first article looked at durability in Warhammer Underworlds . This I defined as the total number of successful 2‑damage attacks required to remove all fighters in a warband. There are two key ways to think about this: Base Durability Assumes all attacks hit and all saves fail. This focuses purely on the Health and fighter count of a warband. Save‑Adjusted Durability Accounts for each fighter’s saves, which can cause attacks to fail and force your opponent to spend more activations to remove your fighters. Another idea you need to understand for this article is:  Save Breakpoint The Save Breakpoint is the point at which an attack reaches two successful hits, causing defensive Saves to become unreliable and dur...

  Jon Grant Miniatures April 2026 Hobby Update by Jon Grant 1st May 2026 Painting I began the month with the aim of painting Thanatek’s Tithe. As of the beginning of March, they were the only Warhammer Underworlds warband that I had yet to paint. I chose the same colour scheme I used for Kainan’s Reapers, bone and purples to represent Shyish, the Realm of Death. I really enjoyed painting this warband and I continue to love the Ossiarch Bonereaper aesthetic, although I doubt I will ever paint a larger force for them. While working on the Mortis Reapers, I also wrote a painting guide, which you can find linked here . My Tithe Afterwards, I decided to paint four Moonclan Grot archers for my Gloomspite Gitz. For these miniatures, I followed my existing Moonclan Grot painting guide. Returning to the loft, I rediscovered my Wrath and Rapture box set from 2019. I had finished painting the Khorne Daemons years ago, but most of the Slaaneshi daemons were still on the sprues. I decided...