The Gates of Kislev

I hadn’t seen that one. Great stuff. I’ve also been following them on the Rogers miniatures Instagram account

knoffles sorry for missing your thread. I was at a tournament the day you posted.

Here you go.



Well worth following Gav on Twitter if you are into old hammer. Most of his stuff has to do with his current work but there are throw backs.

Also Tuoumous Pirinen who wrote 6th edition has a cool Facebook feed primarily focused on his current work but also with various oldhammer bits and links thrown in.

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Hey again,

Thanks for your words gjnoronh and mottdon, I appreciate it! Yes, in fact, during the summer we will discuss our next project, and when we get it, I would be pleased of publishing a painting project on this forum, since the most probable thing is that we will continue playing 8th ed. setting (maybe with a few ammendments, we will see...).

Anyway, returning the focus to Kislev, we have published in our blog the report of deployment and first turn. Apologies for some specific names on English, specially about magic spells, we play the game in Spanish. Here I leave you the beginning of the clash:

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The sun had risen few hours before, but dark supernatural clouds dimmed its light, like a foreshadowing of what had to come. In the walls, the Kislevites moved nervously, as for the Chaos army had not stopped bombing the city walls all night and they were beginning to give way. Suddenly, a ray of light penetrated the ominous clouds and the Kislevites saw a halo of hope on the horizon. The army of Magnus the Pious arrived at Kislev just as the troops of Asavar Kul breached the wall. No Imperial soldier had ever seen an army as coarse and fearsome as the one on the other side of the plain. Creatures of immense size and strange beasts stained by Chaos bathed the horizon. But among those ranks there were not only monsters, but hordes of Chaos Marauders, Warriors of Chaos, Beastmen chariots and leaders of immense power.

But Magnus also had his resources. His hometown, Nuln, had provided the rest of the provinces with numerous war machines. And Steam Tanks, no less than seven of these old machines that were created by Leonardo da Miragliano few decades before, were still in operation and could become a great help. Also, the city of Marienburg hired mercenaries from Tilea and a team of engineers who tried to reproduce a Steam Tank on the shell of a small ship.

Even so, the best reinforcements did not come from the south, but from the east, beyond the sea. A host of High Elves commanded by Teclis met Magnus to help the humans. Especially in relation to magic, a practice that was forbidden at that time in some places.

Unfortunately, not many days before, many of his cavalry troops had gone to Praag and Magnus was not sure if they would arrive in time for the battle. They were led by the Ar-Ulrik Kriestov and supported by Yrtle, one of the Asur wizards.

As a skillful strategist, Asavar Kul quickly reorganized his army to face the new menace. However, the troops of Khorne, under the command of Arbaal the Undefeated, were too eager to penetrate the city and many did not even noticed the arrival of the human reinforcements. Kul placed his best troops in the center: hordes of Warriors and Knights of Chaos, two War Mammoths, two Chaos Dragons and a powerful Emperor Dragon. He placed himself among them to make sure his orders were carried out with scrupulous discipline.

The cool breeze of the Kislevite steppes seemed to stop at that moment under the weight of the silence: a silence that is impossible to describe. Suddenly, a strong gust of wind cut the air and, afterwards, the battle that would decide the fate of the Old World began.
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Here continues with tones of pictures and diagrams!: thegatesofkislev.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-gates-of-kislev-deployment-and-turn.html

Hi Naitsabes and all, sorry for the late answer!

My fellow comrades (specially Rogers) explained a lot about your inquiries. In my particular case, these are my answers:

1) What I have learned: I think clear planning and perseverance are the more important elements to achieve it. Years ago I was involved in the preparation in of big battles and campaigns (certainly nothing compared to Kislev's), and some perished earlier than expected, mainly due people lose interest and focused in other stuff. Here we have been seven fellas keeping the focus on this project for more 2.5 years, and believe me that this is not so easy to achieve as it sounds. So, implication, communication and patience are strong pillars of the structure. In essence, meet players and start a project of this kind with people that view the hobby similarly as you do.

To keep the inner working, we organized at least a painting meeting every three months, where we came together during an entire Saturday or Sunday to motivate together, either printing entire regiments, making the most of the airbrush and basically painting. This is all about team, and there were months where one can do more, and other can do less, but it is important to keep the stuff going on.

2) What would I have done differently: Do less than 40.000 points next time! Hahaha, no, really, we began thinking that we would finish it dedicating around six-eight months of our lifes. Poor ingenous! We had to readapt three or four times the timelines during the process; moreover, some of the players (like me) left the country for some months due studies or job. Take in account that there are always things difficult to control.

Also, we prepared a lot of stuff, but when we were “on the field”, we realized that we need to do a lot of things: register casualties, make photos and video recording… and time literally flew. It would have been better to rely on a Master / Game Director to keep this kind of stuff going and leaving the players concentrate on moving the units. Next time!


3) And what’s next: Well, we have not planned an upcoming ‘big battle’, at least not for now, but we plot some future projects. The first one is a combined army: Arnau, Rogers and me were interested in beginning or working again in an army of Vampire Counts, so we decided that it would be best to unify efforts. And so began a “six hands” army: each one has his own miniatures, but they combine perfectly. Once we have decided what stuff is going to acquire each one of us, it will be necessary to agree on a general color scheme. This week we are going to meet and share a lot of images that we have been collecting on the net and we will decide which scheme to use, especially in the painting of the skeletons, skin, bases…

Also, Jordi (yes, the owner of two Chaos War Mammouths) is expanding his Chaos army acquiring a lot of Marauders, but I cannot tell you how he will gather his next force . In my case, I also have around 12.000 points of Bretonnians that need to be stripped or repainted at some point (I bought most of them yet painted), so we’ll see if we start an army journal here or so. The Battle at The Gates of Kislev is over (though we are working on the video recoring that we expect to unveil soon), but we’ll keep working hard. Thank you!