Dragons and what troop types you haven’t painted much
Mar 12, 2023 18:06:38 GMT
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Post by chronicallychaotic66 on Mar 12, 2023 18:06:38 GMT
Warning, this is another fairly rambling non-topical post from me.
Was reading Hoodling’s amazing Finuval Plain batrep again (if you haven’t seen that go and Google it now rather than reading this random guff). Jumped out at me how many dragons there were on the table (admittedly in a game with about 1000 models a side total) - but people (I.e. warhammer players) are clearly very keen on dragons, and monsters generally (the dark elves have 7 hydras in that game). And I was reminded that I have never painted a dragon in 35 years of playing this game which I suspect is unusual, and not many monsters period.
I hated playing against dragons in 6th/7th but that wouldn’t have stopped me painting one but I didn’t have one or really want one. Wasn’t as if I didn’t play armies that could take one - Warriors, Dark Elves, Wood Elves.
Early on there was a combination of the models being expensive, me rightly thinking I wasn’t skilled enough to paint them properly and, gaming wise, them being vulnerable to a single cannonball.
Later on it was that I wanted to play battles with units of troops rather than have ultra powerful models dominate the game (this applies to wizards too, I’m often a low or even no magic player). This might prompt the question why not just play historicals? Simple - I love fantasy races, love monstrous races, love all the cool stuff (knights, chariots, cannons, barbarians etc) being in one game, anachronistically in historical terms. Support wizards and monsters are fine. Dragons and powerful wizards in large epic games? Bring it on.
Anyway this got me thinking, if Dragons/monsters are under-represented, are any troop types over-represented in my painting career?
So I did some quick estimates of what i’ve painted for warhammer over the last 25 years (which is the cutoff point for me achieving an acceptable painting level). I don’t still own all of these.
Approx 1600 models total (frankly disappointed with this number) of which:
1300 infantry (maybe 230 being missile armed, rest melee)
145 cavalry (85 knights, 60 light cav)
60 monstrous inf/beasts
edit: forgot 14 monstrous cav
40 war beasts
15 war machines
17 chariots
6 swarms
1 “proper” winged monster (dark elf manticore - done several daemon princes but they are more monstrous beast size)
6 non-winged monster (Shaggoth, hellcannon, 4 giants)
I think those are largely predictable proportions apart from the lack of monsters. I am definitely an infantry painter but most of the wfb armies are mostly infantry ofc so that’s always going to be a high number.
The ones that might be slightly higher than expected are the monstrous infantry/beasts (bearing in mind I haven’t painted ogre kingdoms), the chariots (no tomb kings) and the giants. I do love a 40mm base model (painting wise and for looks on the table) a chariot (mainly gaming) and a giant (ditto the monstrous inf) and have plenty more of those to come as I work through the stash.
What are your favourite troop types to paint? ? Have you painted hundreds of cavalry? Are you into double figures of dragons? Can you beat my monstrous infantry number (not counting OK) or my chariot total (not counting TK)?
Was reading Hoodling’s amazing Finuval Plain batrep again (if you haven’t seen that go and Google it now rather than reading this random guff). Jumped out at me how many dragons there were on the table (admittedly in a game with about 1000 models a side total) - but people (I.e. warhammer players) are clearly very keen on dragons, and monsters generally (the dark elves have 7 hydras in that game). And I was reminded that I have never painted a dragon in 35 years of playing this game which I suspect is unusual, and not many monsters period.
I hated playing against dragons in 6th/7th but that wouldn’t have stopped me painting one but I didn’t have one or really want one. Wasn’t as if I didn’t play armies that could take one - Warriors, Dark Elves, Wood Elves.
Early on there was a combination of the models being expensive, me rightly thinking I wasn’t skilled enough to paint them properly and, gaming wise, them being vulnerable to a single cannonball.
Later on it was that I wanted to play battles with units of troops rather than have ultra powerful models dominate the game (this applies to wizards too, I’m often a low or even no magic player). This might prompt the question why not just play historicals? Simple - I love fantasy races, love monstrous races, love all the cool stuff (knights, chariots, cannons, barbarians etc) being in one game, anachronistically in historical terms. Support wizards and monsters are fine. Dragons and powerful wizards in large epic games? Bring it on.
Anyway this got me thinking, if Dragons/monsters are under-represented, are any troop types over-represented in my painting career?
So I did some quick estimates of what i’ve painted for warhammer over the last 25 years (which is the cutoff point for me achieving an acceptable painting level). I don’t still own all of these.
Approx 1600 models total (frankly disappointed with this number) of which:
1300 infantry (maybe 230 being missile armed, rest melee)
145 cavalry (85 knights, 60 light cav)
60 monstrous inf/beasts
edit: forgot 14 monstrous cav
40 war beasts
15 war machines
17 chariots
6 swarms
1 “proper” winged monster (dark elf manticore - done several daemon princes but they are more monstrous beast size)
6 non-winged monster (Shaggoth, hellcannon, 4 giants)
I think those are largely predictable proportions apart from the lack of monsters. I am definitely an infantry painter but most of the wfb armies are mostly infantry ofc so that’s always going to be a high number.
The ones that might be slightly higher than expected are the monstrous infantry/beasts (bearing in mind I haven’t painted ogre kingdoms), the chariots (no tomb kings) and the giants. I do love a 40mm base model (painting wise and for looks on the table) a chariot (mainly gaming) and a giant (ditto the monstrous inf) and have plenty more of those to come as I work through the stash.
What are your favourite troop types to paint? ? Have you painted hundreds of cavalry? Are you into double figures of dragons? Can you beat my monstrous infantry number (not counting OK) or my chariot total (not counting TK)?