First of all, thanks to everybody for coming. This was the largest Axemaster field we've had so far, and it was great to see some new players. Things went pretty smoothly given that it was the first tournament I've run, and people seemed to be having a good time. We also want to thank Mil Sims again for sponsoring the tournament and supplying prizes - without their help the spoils of victory would be pretty slim.

Axemaster this year will be run on the 19th-20th of September, 2009.

The venue is our usual haunt:

Hampton Community Center,
14 Willis St. Hampton, VIC

The games club will be run at my place this saturday (the 27th of december) starting at 12. I have room for 3 tables so everyone won't be able to play at the same time but that doesn't matter hugely. It is likely we'll have to finish up a bit earlier than normal as some of us are probably heading to the football in the evening.

There will be no charge, (unlike those scurrelous bastards that run the real club with their inordinate fees and taxes, just kidding btw) but bring something along for everyone to share.

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):

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:

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 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