Oldhammer weekend Mustering the Warbands.

So it seams the second day of the Oldhammer weekend is to see the clash of mighty warbands in the Titanic clash of forces representing the Bloody hand of Khorne and the erm.. sticky? hand of Slaanesh. All across the Oldhammersphere champions are hearing the Clarion call to arms. Have you dedicated yourself to a power yet? What will you say in years to come when small boys ask were you there? Will you retell the deeds of your mighty champion or admit in shameful ripost that, "no to my shame, I was at home watching Andrew Marr instead."








So far the legions  of Khorne have grown with many great champions feeling the Call of blood in their warlike frames. Let me recount their names:

Orlyyg
Zhu
Coop
(and many more as I get round to posting them)

Slaanesh, no doubt adrift on a sensual overload, was slow to start mustering his forces however things are picking up with many hopeful champions taking there weapons in hand...

Gaj
Warlord Paul
Davey
Myself!

And those who are undeclared:

Andy








I know it's early days yet but lets see the colour of your metal, red or pink?

Oldhammer Day 2013!

It's on. Its the 31August to 1st Septmeber 2013!

Emails have been sent, conference calls have been had, secret pact have been made with dark mysterious forces. Gaj AKA Weasil (Gajwesail?) has done sterling work, the Ansells have been super stars.  All of this has lead to the dates being set for the first ever Oldhammer day at the Foundry in Nottingham. What better place, surely the spiritual home of Citadel will be hosting what can only be described as the must go event of the Oldhammer calender. Talk to your better half now, reserve the date the gods of Oldhammer need to be apeased!

Imagine your ideal club meet. Well this is it, table laid on, food and drink provided at bar prices, wonderful collections of old lead to be viewed, games to be played from bring and battle to demo games to a gathering of RoC warbands. There will even be the possibility of buying miniatures cast from the original citadel molds! All over two days.

How to get involved?

Wing your way over to THE oldhammer forum and sign up. It's our day so it is important to get involved to ensure it is everything we collectively want.  Our band of fellow old school adventures grows daily so now is the time to sign the Oldhammer Contract and get on board.

Golden Gobbos to view.

The premier 80’s citadel style miniature painting competition the Golden Gobbo has been closed to entries for a few weeks now. The entries are now available to view by all Oldhammerers on The Citadel Collector site. There are some wonderfully painted miniatures and some equally great background pieces for each entry. At some point the entrants will be deciding amongst themselves the winner but for now let us just enjoy the Oldhammeryness.

Pimping Oldhammer buildings.

I've got a bunch of Oldhammer 80's style card buildings up for grabs on the blog.

here

here

and here

Maybe I need to put together a IP free Oldhammer freebies list?

Orc's Drift, Thantants completes an Odyssey into Oldhammer.

Well worth a spot on Oldhammer news is Thantants' completed campaign come novella, Blood Bath at Orcs Drift. Done entirely in the spirit of Oldhammer, how could it not be with vintage rules and miniatures many of which are those sold at the time for use with this scenario.

Anyway well done and thank you  Thantants all Oldhammers salute you!

So whats the blog for now?

It would be easy to say that the blog has served its purpose now, we are all together on the forum a great step forward and for the purpose of of discussing ideas it is indeed redundant.

But the Blog does something else. Posts on the blog appear on the blogs of most followers so posting news here will regularly advertise the movement to the large amounts of passing viewers, we only need one or two to click the link to steadily grow the community. After all any people that come to this blog via our blogs are probably already interested in oldhammer.

To this end I think the following should happen:

Some permanent blog pages:

What is old hammer.

For the future an intro to BLOOD.

Other beginners resources.

Pretty this thing up, if it's one of the shop windows it ought to look good.

BLOOD Forum

I did setup quickly a forum for all discussion regarding Oldhammer, B.L.O.O.D., the golden Gobbo, the fanzine, etc.

It's hosted on one of my server and ou can access it there : http://bloodforum.treps.net (we can change the name at anytime, it was just easier to set it up this way).

We'll work on the design later ! If you have ideas feel free to submit them, but it's more intended to be a collaborative tool than a showroom ;-)

You can register and use it freely, if you need something (more than basic access rights, specific need, etc.) just send me a PM (treps on the forum) and I'll see that you can access it !

Bruno