A Call to Arms

So having explained the goal of this blog and the nature of the project at hand I have decided to begin with the administrative side of things. I suppose this should start with the army list and the initial collection of figures available for the project.

The concept I wanted to begins with was a simple mostly foot soldier based list, something that could take full advantage of historical landsknecht armies through to the pike and shotte period, and also be applicable to both the Empire and Dogs of War army books. With a new edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battles available it seemed reasonable that I should be able to combie the new horde rules with the rules for Empire  detachments to my full advantage. With this goal in mind I began amassing figures with no clear version of the list ready, with every intention of sorting this out later.

I began with two Empire Battalion Boxes, a handful of bits from Battlewagon Bits, and an assortment of figures from the Mordheim range with some out of print figures from ebay mixed in.

As far as tools go I am using an Army Painter starter set and the old edition of the Games Workshop Complete paints range (the one in the silver briefcase). Ive had this set since '07 when I began work on my Chaos army which is still in a box somewhere unfinished due to interruptions and near death experiences. Perhaps that will be my next fantasy project.  But I digress.

Armed with these tools I have set to work creating the beginning of the army...