Cyberpunk minis

Painted several cyberpunk characters for the first game of 2025

First a colorful girl that while played as a waitress can also be any kind of civilian

Then a cybered up thai technician to replace the japanese netrunner sadly killed during the last campaign's finale

 And lastly a shady looking guy who might work or not for a rival corporation

Demigryph knights

 

One of the units that I always wanted to have for my Empire army as kid were the demigryph knights. I thoght that the models looked pretty cool and the rules were solid, and now thanks to adult money I managed to get six of them 

For painting I went with the Knights Griffon,  a templar order dedicated to the protection of the temples and priests of Sigmar that happens to have its base in Altdorf, where it guards the great cathedral with a regiment of demigryph riders

The scheme its taken from the excellent uniforms&heraldry of the Empire book

I read somewhere that demigryphs roam around the Reikwald in prides like lions, so I added a cute demi baby to the standard bearer base 

The battle of Varenka Hills

For the last game of the campaign I wanted something special, so I gathered four players of a big 3.000 points doubles game in the Varenka Hills north of Barak Varr, the winners of which would get to grab an extra territory before the war for the Border Princes came to an end

Karaz a Karak and empire were facing an antinatural alliance between elves and slayers in a battle for the control of some ruins in the middle of the battlefield. Rushing both dwarves to the objective thanks to several runes and special rules

The enemy left flank was composed mostly of elves

Holding the slayers the right

First blood went to the Empire when a cannonball killed a doomseeker

Then Asarnil came out from behind the woods, ordering his dragon to breathe fire on the artillerymen

It was now the second turn and everyone was charging the foe

A unit of Reiksguard running down some poor shadow warriors who had advanced too much

And the formidable brotherhood of Grimnir cutting dwarf warriors to ribbons

having annihilated the foe my knights them smashed into the dragon princes and received a flank charge from some lancers, but well protected by plate armour they slaughtered the arrogant elf nobles and sent both units packing

In the center meanwhile the dwarfs were keeping a tense standoff on top of the ruins, while greatswords and spearmen got into combat

The brotherhood meanwhile had been slowed down by the dwarf warriors, who redirected them away from the ruins with a smart use of rallying and pinpoint attacks that killed the enemy general

In an ill conceived move that won us the battle the slayers pursued out of the board, leaving the ruins unprotected and themselves exposed to artillery fire

The Reiksguard meanwhile had a field day killing elves

While the spearmen were surrounded and slaughtered by the Carroburg greatswords

Even Asarnil fell after enduring miraculously a turn of fire unscathed, killed at last by a dwarf cannons and the imperial helblaster gun

Some losses were suffered however, such as this regiment of spearmen that fled

But on the far left a humble unit of halberdiers was holding the elite phoenix guard 

Time was running out for the slayers, and they launched a series of charges that saw them shot down by the disciplined imperial troops

At last the hammerers charged, slaughtering the pitiful band of slayers that was contesting the ruins

It was all over for elves and slayers, who lost the goblin hewer to a single round of artillery fire

And the brotherhood to hellbalster and organ gun

And so the day ended in a victory for dwarves and men, who held the ruins with two units

After the battle Barak Barr and Matorea were liberated, ending the Empire as the overall winner of the campaign with nine territories

Grudge match at Matorea

 

In the last turn of the campaign the Karaz a Karak player decided to cross the Black Gulf and attack his brothers of the Cult of Grimnir, starting a grudge-filled battle for the possession of a small coastal town

The mountain dwarfs got first turn and sniped Makaisson's goblin hewer with a catapult shot, taking down the only warmachine of the enemy in turn one

Then organ guns and quarrelers opened fire, killing two out of four doomsekers

Under a terrible barrage of fire the slayers kept advancing, leaving many comrades behind their death oaths to Grimnir at last fulfilled

While things went form bad to worse for the crazed dwarf maniacs in the left...

...their right flank looked much more promising

Charging two blocks of slayers a single unit of ironbreakers

While in the center Long Drong's pirates routed the thunderers with a fusillade of pistol shot

Both generals traded blows in the big melee, but even fully kitted with runes they didn't cause a single wound during the challenge

Around them however the slayers had killed a ton of ironbreakers with their two handed axes, causing the rout of the unit and the death of the general, killed by his short foes during the pursuit

On the left meanwhile just a line of dwarves had managed to reach the foe, challenging their dragonslayer an enemy hero

After routing the ironbreakers the slayers wiped out the quarrellers

Backing a longbeard unit against the corner

On the other side of the battlefield the dragonslayer finally managed to kill his opponent

Only to be swamped by his vengeful comrades and killed

Seizing the moment the longbeards charged and killed a score of slayers, who thanks to being unbreakable shrugged it off and kept fighting

In the right Drong and his mates attacked the second ironbreaker block, but facing greater numbers and rank after rank of stout dwarves, they lost the combat

And in the last charge of the game the longbeards were flanked by the general and routed from the field

In the end a battle that began as a slaughter of slayers in a surprising victory for the Cult of Grimnir

And with this last battle end the campaign turn. Keep in touch for the final battle next week where we will fight in a big multiplayer game to decide the fate of the Border Princes