The Dice Odyssey vs The Imperial Patrol

Today i decided to journey up north in order to get more practice in with my NZTC wood elves and empire army. My opponent was Jayden Howel (of Imperial Patrol), before we began we agreed that i would handle the Wood Elf battle report and he would handle the Empire on Empire report, if you want to see that report you can find it here.

I used my NZTC list, which included:

2400 Pts - Wood Elves Roster

Total Roster Cost: 2399

Treeman Ancient (1#, 350 pts)
   1 Treeman Ancient, 325 pts
      1 An Annoyance of Netlings, 25 pts

Spellweaver (1#, 250 pts)
   1 Spellweaver, 250 pts = (base cost 215 + Level 4 Upgrade 35)

Noble (1#, 132 pts)
   1 Wood Elf Noble (Battle Standard Bearer), 92 pts = (base cost 75 + Light Armour 2 + Battle Standard Bearer 15)
      1 Opal Amulet, 15 pts
      1 A Resplendence of Luminescents, 25 pts

Noble (1#, 160 pts)
   1 Wood Elf Noble, 110 pts = (base cost 75 + Waywatcher Kindred 35)
      1 Sword of Might, 20 pts
      1 Hail of Doom Arrow, 30 pts

Glade Guard (15#, 214 pts)
   14 Glade Guard, 186 pts = 14 * 12 (base cost 12) + Musician Mus 6 + Standard Bearer Std 12
      1 Lord's Bowman, 18 pts
      1 Banner of Eternal Flame, 10 pts

Glade Guard (15#, 192 pts)
   14 Glade Guard, 174 pts = 14 * 12 (base cost 12) + Musician Mus 6
      1 Lord's Bowman, 18 pts

Glade Guard (15#, 192 pts)
   14 Glade Guard, 174 pts = 14 * 12 (base cost 12) + Musician Mus 6
      1 Lord's Bowman, 18 pts

Glade Guard (15#, 192 pts)
   14 Glade Guard, 174 pts = 14 * 12 (base cost 12) + Musician Mus 6
      1 Lord's Bowman, 18 pts

Wardancers (7#, 147 pts)
   6 Wardancers, 115 pts = 6 * 18 (base cost 18) + Musician Mus 7
      1 Bladesinger, 32 pts

Treeman (1#, 285 pts)
   1 Treeman, 285 pts

Treeman (1#, 285 pts)
   1 Treeman, 285 pts

He used his standard list which looked like:

1 General of the Empire with a rune-fang.

1 Level 4 Master Wizard (lore of heavens)

1 Level 2 Battle Mage on horse (lore of Light)

1 Master Engineer 

6 Units of 10 Handgunners

24 Halberdiers

24 Inner Circle Knights with Great Weapons. 

3 Great Cannon

1 Hellblaster Volley Gun

For Ulric! For The Empire!

A while back i mentioned that i was collecting a Empire army as secondary army, i also mentioned that i was getting it Commission painted to avoid losing painting score at tournaments. Well the first wave is almost complete, below are a few pictures.

Commission, First Pictures

So a while back i mentioned that i was starting an undead army to be my second warhammer army, then a few weeks later i was speaking to a friend of mine who had just started a empire army. We got talking about our respective new armies and during the course of this chat we discovered that actually we really wanted to play each others armies. So i sent my undead to him and he sent his empire to me in order to try them out and decided if we wanted to swap.

In short we did want to swap so now i am doing an empire army. Enter painting scores. I want to enter this army into tournaments however my skitterleap painting score showed that armies that i painted wouldn't be able to get over good enough painting scores. So i began to look into commission services. My Search for decent and reasonably priced commission services also got fellow Dice Odyssey author Jayden Howel into looking commission services. He managed to find (in a sea of international commission services) a local service in Auckland. After seeing what the paint job done on Jayden's Penal Legion squad i decided to send him my empire. Well today i got my first pictures of some completed models:

I am very impressed with these test models and am very much looking forward to seeing the rest of the army when its done. If you want to see some of his other work (please note that his commission service has only been up for a few months) you can check out his Youtube Channel or his Commission post on Dakka dakka

Until next time
Rex