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We have an advance warning by GW to prepare for Cathay miniatures. I'm starting an army now, to be ready if this glorious army book ever hits the shops.
Warhammer Fantasy Battles with regiments will return:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/07/21/square-bases-...
I missed new official releases of The Old World very much. And now there's hope! This was great news.
GW has an official army list for Cathay.:
https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-warhammer-3-grand-ca...
Sooooo... I've been to Essen SPIEL last friday a look what I found there:
https://wargenwargames.com/en/wargames/1482-dungeons-lasers-...
Instabuy!
This miniature is perfect to represent a Cathay dragon.:strip_icc()/pic6456606.jpg)
The quality is very high. It did cost me 24,- Euro's. A similar miniature by GW would be around 60,- Euro's I suppose. So it's a steal. The pose is certainly not static. The instruction manual is very clear. It is a cool miniature to glue.
Now let's find me some infantry models...
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In the Warmaster Trial Armies book there is an entry for Tengu's. Tengu are wood daemons – half bird half man. They can make a magical move from one part of the forest to another. This movement is treated as a sort of flight or teleport - Tengu unit diappears in one wood, appears in next, and may charge the enemy that was visible for any one Tengu in a start of this move as normal.
So I need 28mm birdmen miniatures for my Nippon army. (Because I am building 28mm armies to be used with the Warmaster ruleset.) The Tzaangors from Warhammer Quest: Silver Tower came to mind, but they are too few and to expensive. That's when I found this plastic Arakkoa birdman from WoW.:strip_icc()/pic242875.jpg)
He's perfect. I'll base two of them on a 40mm square base each. To add variation in the regiment I'll add a Wildkind too.:strip_icc()/pic154050.jpg)
Tue Sep 20, 2016 9:37 am
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The Temple Dogs are a very cool unit for the WHFB Nippon army. These stone Dog statues also called Fu Dogs guard the entrances of temples in Cathay and Nippon. In times of need they become animated and will be fierce adversaries.
So... I need them! But the official metal miniatures above are waaaay too expensive. And I don't have them. Well, let's look for alternatives in my bits box.
FOUND! This Manticore from Dark World is just perfect. I'll field three of them in a monster regiment. The only thing to convert is the tail. I'll clip the scorpion tails and maybe replace them with horse tails.
Tue Sep 13, 2016 6:00 am
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I am building 28mm miniature armies to play Warmaster battles. To construct my Nippon regiments I follow the Warmaster Trial Armies book. You'll need at least one Samurai infantry regiment and two Ashigaru Spearmen regiments. I have some old metal Clan War miniatures to field a Samurai regiment.
I did not find Ashigaru miniatures with the typical straw hats and wooden footwear, so I opted to buy some plastic sets from Warlord Games./pic3157756.jpg)
That's enough spearmen to field three regiments (with unit fillers) and 12 cavalry models for two Samurai Cavalry regiments.
Now I'm out for a more interesting quest: the search for suiting models to represent Temple Dogs and Tengu!
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Long time ago I went to the Fantasy World convention at the Handelsbeurs in Antwerp (Belgium) in 1993. The convention was organized by a FLGS called The Lonely Mountain, a legendary shop in Flanders.
The only fantasy games I knew (and played) back in those days were HeroQuest and the famous customizable card game Magic. I bought my first blackbordered M:TG beta edition cards here. These were the pre-internet days and the importance of conventions was very high. It was the only way to discover new products. One of the trade stands had a sealed box of HeroQuest: Barbarian Quest Pack for cheap. This was an American version and I didn't speak English back then. So I thought by myself: "I'll buy this in my supermarket soon when the Dutch version is published..." What a mayor mistake this has been for a huge HeroQuest-fan like me! It was never published in Europe and I had to wait 15 years before I even found out any details about it. But that's another story... (Read some of it here: www.tocoking.be/ahq/unreleased.html )
Between various trade stands, live swordfighting, signature sessions (by Dave Prowse and others), there were also a lot of gaming tables.
It was on one of those tables that I saw a Warhammer Nippon army for the first time. How awesome it was! An Oriental Dragon, Warrior Monks, and Ashigaru with that typical wooden footwear (or "geta") and round straw hats.
I never found out whose army it was and to my great disappointment my FLGS didn't sell a GW Nippon army. (So I went for Skaven instead.)
I only later found out that GW never really published something like a "Nippon army". But there are some miniatures available now. And it's the only Warhammer army I don't own for the moment. It all starts with the iconic rocket launcher. While the blister package states that it is a Nippon Rocket Crew, many Warhammer fans tend to say it is actually a Cathayan warmachine... That last idea is also reflected in the Warmaster Trial Armies list. They have two separate lists for Cathay and Nippon.:strip_icc()/pic3157757.jpg)
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I managed to buy one for a normal price at eBay. IN BLISTER PACKAGE! But unfortunatelly, I had to open it, I want to play with the miniatures, not just invest and collect.:strip_icc()/pic3157759.jpg)
In the 3rd edition rulebook for Warhammer there is a list to help you construct a Nippon army. The army list is not as extensive as we know from later versions of Warhammer, but it has just enough info to become interested. This list together with the armies list from Warmaster will be my guides to build a 28mm Nippon army.:strip_icc()/pic3157785.jpg)
Last picture is the empty blister package. The artwork on the front is realy cool in comparisson to the newer blister packages by GW. It shows a Samurai, a Ninja, an Oni and a Celestial Dragon. If someone knows who the artist is, let me know!:strip_icc()/pic3157760.jpg)
Sat Sep 3, 2016 5:55 am
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