Our congratulations to Chris, who qualified (albeit only just) for this years WHFB Masters tournament in Sydney.

Play well, and may your dice always roll 6's, except of course when taking LD tests.

Here are the rules we're going to be using for the map-based campaign.

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Rules are to be used as per the original Mighty Empires rules (you can download them from the GW site), except where described below.

Banners

A character must be able to be a general to lead a banner. Characters like Assassins, Liches, Necromancers and battle standard bearers may not lead a banner.

Removed Rules

The following rules will not be used (exclude the entire phase where applicable):

The entire community centre has been booked by other people next weekend, so the club's not running on Saturday the 20th of September. We'll be back the Saturday after.

Axemaster 2008 seemed to go pretty well, and here are the results. Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everybody who came along. We hope everybody had a good time, and hope to see you again next year!

First Overall: Dino Zanon

Second Overall: Richard Anear

Third Overall: Greg Nicol

The Bridesmaid Award: Chris Cousens

Best Sports: Steve Riley

Best Army: Yan Zhi Lai

Full results:

Because the Daemon army book is so recent, Games Workshop have not yet released an FAQ to deal with ambiguities in the rules. Taking the lead from Convic, we will be using a pre-defined set of rulings. These are included below for your edification:

 (Based on and nearly all the same as the ConVic 2008 Daemon FAQ) 

Axemaster this year will be run on the 16th-17th of August, 2008.

The venue is our usual haunt:

Hampton Community Center,
14 Willis St. Hampton, VIC

Fortunes of War Report - 2008

My army:
Archmage: Ethereal robe, Seerstaff and Dispel Scroll
Mage: Ring of Fury, Silver Wand
Noble: BSB, Sword of Might, Helm of Fortune, Barded Steed
Noble: Lance, Temekadors Gauntlets (+1sv, 5+ward), Barded Steed

19 Spearmen:Full Command
10 Archers

The club's not running on Saturday the 17th of May, as a large bunch of us will be at Fortunes of War. We'll be back the Saturday after that(the 24th).

The Siege of Fort Trollengerschpanken;
A Drunken Dwarves VS. Avaricious Imperials battle report.

The armies:
Gunther's Gatecrashers.

General Gunther Striche (General of the Empire): 174 Points.
Hammer of Judgement, Holy relic, Plate armour, Shield.

Grand Master Ludwig Von Flasche (Knight grand master): 240 Points.
Sword of Power, Laurels of Victory.

A 10,000pt battle report featuring High Elves, Dwarves and an awful lot of Vampires...

On the principle that bigger equals better, a bunch of us decided to play a fairly substantial game for a change. The new Vampire Counts book had just been released, complete with incredibly expensive Vampire characters, so I was slightly amazed to find I could actually make a 5000pt army fairly easily (having over 2000pts just in Vampire Lords helped). The hugeness of it all attracted legions of bystanders, onlookers, hecklers and the like, some of whom handily came eqipped with cameras. Since we ended up with a ton of photos, I thought it'd be shame not to do something with them. Here follow my (probably incomplete and biased) recollections of a pretty big game between the noble alliance of High Elves (Greg) and Dwarves (Aaron) and the fiendish and black-hearted but impeccably-dressed Vampire Counts (Ben and Pete).

View all the photos from the game