In two weeks the annual Horisont convention is held in Odense, which undoubtedly is the best and most interesting Danish war games convention. Like the two previous years I will be hosting a game of Oldhammer with my ol’ buddy Claus and this year we decided to run the famous “Dolgan Raiders” scenario from the Second Citadel Journal published in 1985. We will be using the 2ed WFB rules and more or less stick to the scenario as presented with a few small tweaks. More about both the miniatures and the scenario later when I’m done basing the minis we will be using.
The Second Citadel Journal published in 1985
In this post you can see the table on which we will be playing the scenario. We just finished the whole thing this weekend. Basically the action of the scenario takes place on flat grasslands which of course makes the terrain fairly simple if not even boring, so we decided to spice things up a bit by letting the confrontation take place on a slightly slopping hill and included some small features which breaks the monotony – a burial mound, an ancient stature and the remains of some gigantic thing which once wandered these plains. For those of you who know the scenario, which undoubtedly is most, you will remember the three wagons pulled by lobotomized ogres (sic!) which of course also are going to be a very dominant feature on the battlefield.
The styrofoam boards put in place and ready to be attacked
Cutting the slopping hillside
First stage done. A lone dark elf mini is used to test if the slope is not too steep
Statue and burial mound added
We initially were toying with the idea of having a road crossing the battlefield but this idea we soon discarded
Them the whole thing was covered with white glue mixed with brown paint and sand
And a giant skeleton as well as some smaller bones was put into the wet sand and glue mix
The statue is a some cheap religious kitsch with just the right flavour
The giant skeleton is the last remains of a rabbit a found a while ago which I had soaking in bleach for a while
More rabbit bones strewn across the battlefield
Once dry we gave the whole thing a new layer of dark brown
Once the brown layer was dry we took the whole thing outside and highlighted the boards with brownish yellow and khaki spray paints
Back inside the last details – such as the statue was painted and patches of reeds and large bushes was added.
And done. Ready for the Dolgans and their hated Hobgoblin enemies
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