The Vampire's War Diaries

Wherein I capture my adventures in rejoining a wargaming community after a 20 year hiatus. I'm bringing my oldhammer Undead models into Kings of War, adding new models, and mucking about with some fiction to tie my battles together.

Monday, 25 April 2016

A Time of Reclamation

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The Vampire Lord's domain could trace its origins to back before the God War. At first just a minor village with a watchful tower nearb...
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Monday, 21 March 2016

The God Citadel

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Travellers did not know this place. They could not. If they turned their horse towards it, the horse would shy away. If they set their eyes...
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Sunday, 28 February 2016

Press-moulding shields

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So in the process of finally coming close to finishing my Nightmare Legion, I decided they needed to all be bearing the classic coffin-shap...
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Sunday, 14 February 2016

Unit showcase - Zombie Trolls

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Across the lands of Mantica, there is trade. Markets bustle, coin changes hands and people barter. If you want food to feed your children, ...
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Saturday, 13 February 2016

Dwarven Wight

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After the night's rituals drew to a close, and the morning sun crested the horizon, the Vampire Lord's latest minion arose. Another...
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Monday, 8 February 2016

Unit showcase - Zombie Werewolves

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In life, the Vampire Lord had loved to hunt boars and other wildlife in the forests surrounding his castle. In death, his pursuits translat...
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Friday, 8 January 2016

X Marks the Spot

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With his domain expanded after the border skirmish, the Vampire Lord sent his eyes and ears out on leather wings to survey his new lands. T...
Thursday, 24 December 2015

The Nightmare Legion

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Painting up an oldhammer Regiment of Renown, The Nightmare Legion. I'm a slow painter, so it's slow going, but in the end I will ha...
Tuesday, 22 December 2015

Do Unto Others

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The ritual to create a mummy from the ancestor's embalmed corpse, performed a few weeks prior, had caused a flicker of dark energies to...
Wednesday, 16 December 2015

Knights in Shining Armour

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The bats circled the tower, shrieking and flapping in their insidious way. To outsiders, it was just noise. To the Vampire Lord, the shriek...
Thursday, 3 December 2015

Angel with the Scabbed Wings

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The Vampire Lord's lithe form almost flowed like a shadow as he stepped down from his throne and strode across the room. He could sens...
Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Forge Fires Burning

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The vampire awoke in the coffin deep in the catacombs beneath his castle, his wounds still closing over from the defeat the night before. A...
Monday, 16 November 2015

Spires of Insanity

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Among the cursed items salvaged from the battle against The Brotherhood was a map and an odd kind of token. Hewn of some sort of bone, to l...
Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Dredging the Swamp

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The Vampire Lord, furious at his defeat by the orcs, traversed the countryside back towards his castle in the deep of the forests. Some sma...
Friday, 6 November 2015

The Valley of Strife

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The orcs and the undead crested opposite sides of the desolate valley at the same time. Rumours and portends had led them here, to the site...
Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Still learning, too late into the evening.

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Had my third game of Kings of War tonight. This one against Glen again, 1500 points of my Undead versus his Orcs. Rolled through the left f...
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Played Warhammer Fantasy Battles in the late 80s/early 90s. Went on hiatus for 20+ years, in 2015 I've rediscovered my love of miniatures with Kings of War.
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