{"id":3394,"date":"2021-02-12T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2021-02-14T14:11:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T14:11:46","slug":"conqueror-model-dwarves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2021\/02\/12\/conqueror-model-dwarves\/","title":{"rendered":"Conqueror Model Dwarves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stephen gives us the lowdown on his latest painting project…<\/em><\/p>\n

When Lockdown Part 1 kicked off I decided that I would not be buying loads of new miniatures since there was no knowing when we would be meeting again.<\/p>\n

I bought some odds and sods to fill gaps in collections but wouldn\u2019t be starting any new projects. And I\u2019ve kept to that.<\/p>\n

However.<\/p>\n

Just before Christmas I saw Conqueror Models\u2019 range of 28mm dwarves<\/a>. These were of the same style as the original Vendel Miniatures dwarves. There\u2019s a good reason for that \u2013 same sculptor (Colin Patten). Years ago I bought a few of the Vendel dwarves and always intended on buying some more. Before I could do that Vendel stopped selling them and they just disappeared.<\/p>\n

I was absolutely gutted.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always liked the idea of a dwarven army but hadn\u2019t really liked the style of dwarves that have been available up until now \u2013 I\u2019m really not a fan of that GW cartoon style where it\u2019s all belly and no legs.<\/p>\n

So seeing the Conqueror Models range I thought, \u2018That\u2019s it! That\u2019s what I want!\u2019<\/p>\n

Having been stung by the Vendel range disappearing I decided that I wasn\u2019t going to let this lot pass me by. And so, since Christmas was on the horizon and because I realised that, on balance, this year I had been a good boy, I decided that I would treat myself and buy myself lots of dwarves \u2013 enough for a whole army, just in case the same happened to these.<\/p>\n

Since they were of the same style as the Vendel ones, and since I had some Vendel dwarves, I mixed them in with the units I bought.<\/p>\n

I decided to build these in Dragon Rampant sized units. Although, given their \u2018historical\u2019 style in arms and armour, I think I will be tempted to use them with the Anglo Dane battleboard in Saga as well (yeah, I know there\u2019s Saga Myth & Magic, but from what I\u2019ve heard that falls in to the same trap as nearly all fantasy rules \u2013 lots of \u2018special\u2019 rules that are exceptions to the main rules and just tie it in knots).<\/p>\n

Anyway.<\/p>\n

Conqueror actually do unarmoured dwarven fyrd as well, but I didn\u2019t get any of them. To my mind I wanted my dwarves to comprise predominantly heavy infantry in mail. I bought a few packs of the spearmen which, when mixed in with the Vendel models with hand weapons,, would give a good mix to the unit. I also chose to buy the thrusting spear poses (you can get them upright) because they make the unit look more dynamic. I did two units of 12 each having the same shield design and a war-banner.<\/p>\n

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Warriors 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Warriors 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Conqueror do armoured and unarmoured archers (we\u2019ll come to them in a minute), but I went with crossbows to make two units of heavy missiles.<\/p>\n

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Crossbows 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crossbows 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then came the axemen. I swapped the axes that came with the models (because the axe head looked a little large) and used some spare Gripping Beast dane-axes I had. These axemen can be used in one of two ways \u2013 either two units of elite infantry or as a single unit of heavy infantry (with the Offensive Weapons upgrade).<\/p>\n

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Daneaxes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And so on to the archers. I bought a pack of the unarmoured archers to use as dwarven scouts\/rangers. And because of that I painted them in suitably earthy\/green tones.<\/p>\n

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Scouts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Leading this bunch are the heroes and commander. I did a couple of weapon swaps here. One of them came with a daneaxe but I decided that I would put in a spare two-handed sword for variety. Other spare Gripping Beast hand weapons were used on some of the others.<\/p>\n

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Commander and Heroes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To round things out are a couple of beast units. First up is a pack of wolves (lesser warbeasts) and to scare the enemy is a Reaper Bones warbear (greater warbeasts).<\/p>\n

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Wolves and Warbear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That\u2019s my dwarven army done. I can muster about 50 odd points (in Dragon Rampant terms) which means I can have a dwarven civil war or put together a single large dwarven host for a big smack up.<\/p>\n

I love these Conqueror dwarves. Stylistically it\u2019s just what I was looking for. They\u2019ve been a real pleasure to paint as well \u2013 not too many fussy extra bits, nice areas to add a few designs to, and good poses. Definitely painter\u2019s models. I\u2019ve finally got the dwarf collection I\u2019ve always wanted. It\u2019s my army d\u2019jour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen gives us the lowdown on his latest painting project… When Lockdown Part 1 kicked off I decided that I would not be buying loads of new miniatures since there was no knowing when we would be meeting again. I bought some odds and sods to fill gaps in collections but wouldn\u2019t be starting any … Continue reading “Conqueror Model Dwarves”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,23,11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-28mm-wargaming","category-dragon-rampant","category-fantasy","category-modelling-and-painting-articles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/The-Army-Deployed.jpg?fit=688%2C378&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9A5LG-SK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3451,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}