Sunday, August 16, 2015

Oldhammer USA - The Battle of Rusty's Farm

Hi All,

This was the first Warhammer 3rd Ed. battle that I had fought in about 24 years. I tried to make an army list, but all I had was infantry and no real clue what I was doing. A big thank you to my co-general Richard "Orc Lord" for putting up with my wonky deployment and organizational choices, and our opponents Andrew, Dustin and PA Chris for helping me muddle through a game.

For the following Comic I used Comic Life 3 (as per usual) but without a template. I learned how to texture the page in the program and played round with the formatting of the panels. Lettering (the sound effects things) are still a challenge, let me know if I went too heavy handed.

I chose not to do filters on the images, except for the first one. I find that most filters make the images impossible to make out.

Enjoy.






Next up, my orcs scrap with VT Chris's Bretonnian's

11 comments:

  1. Excellent battle report. I think the whole format worked very well. I enjoyed popping over and seeing how my Mad Mort's were doing. That Alamo game was calling me back though. ;)

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    1. Thanks airborne. Yeah, the only downside to the weekend was so many cool games to play.

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    2. Sweet, sweet game hangover! I don't need no cure!

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  2. I like the Comic Life format, but I found it a bit hard to tell who was who from the pictures. The captions do help a lot, though!

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    1. Hi Hugh, thanks for your feed back. I think I may have committed, to my mind, the cardinal sin of battle reporting. Too many overview shots. I find that I want to be directed to the action with close ups, rather than look at a whole table shot of formations I can barely make out. One thing that may help is right clicking each image and opening in a new tab. I make them as larger as I can when displaying on the blog, but the actual images are much lager, a lot easier to make things out this way.

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    2. large, not larger
      larger, not lager

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  3. excellent report...rough day for the Green Skins eh?

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    1. Thanks Blue, it was a hard slog. Those Dark elves are tough.

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  4. Tough luck, great looking game though. At least you didn't fall apart from animosity checks.
    Cold one knights are brutal even with their ridiculous rules for charging. I hope next time you can muster some war machines, as my ordnance master Gaksplat Da Teef has said time and again;
    "Oi Boss deez rock tossas we knicked from dem dead stunties make dem panzy pink gobs splat good"
    I imagine they'd work the same on the ornate manicured blue skins too!

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    1. Hi 24_Cigs, animosity was not a big problem this time. In the past my army flew apart before I made it to the enemy. I need to work on engines and cavalry. I have some, just didn't get it going for the event. I was worried about having enough rank & file.

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