Privateer Press’ Hordes - Gaming with the Mrs.!
My wife and I don’t get much time to go out anymore now that we have a couple of munchkins in the house, so in order to have more fun at home without having to leave the house, I have introduced her to wargaming [cue sinister music]. I got her initially interested in playing because she thought all the figures looked neat. She decided she liked the fantasy looking figures more than the sci-fi and thus we began playing warhammer fantasy battles. The problem is, there are a lot of figures to paint, lots of rules to learn and a lot of time to play just one game. While I like to spend all that time working on my Warhammer and 40K armies (Dark Elves, Salamanders, Necrons and newly acquired Chaos Dwarfs), we wanted to have fewer figures to paint for our games to worry about completing.
I had heard from a friend that Hordes was a pretty fun game. I wasn’t a huge fan of Privateer Press’ Warmachine line of models (they are very nice, but not necessarily my cup of tea), but when I checked out the Hordes figures, they seemed pretty sweet to me. I had a few of armies from other game systems laying around just collecting dust, so I off to bartertown.com and I worked out a bunch of trades in order to get all 4 of the warpacks and the 2 rulebooks. While I could have gotten an idea of the game with just 2 packs and no rule books, it worked better with trading what I had, plus it seems that hordes warpacks are always in demand anyway, so if I wound up not being a huge fan I could trade most things with relative ease.
So, this week I got two of the warpacks that I traded for, Skorne and Trollbloods. Below are a few shots of the box sets still in pieces. I plan on attempting to record the progress my wife and I have while working on building and painting them and maybe some shots of some of our games in progress in addition to thoughts about the game, modeling, etc. Enjoy!
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