Tale of London Gamers 2026
Welcome one and all to the 2026 Tale of London Gamers challenge!
I decided that if I want to see more hobby posts on I should do something proactively. As such I came up with this challenge for our local gamers. The aim is to keep motivation going and end up with a fully painted army at the end of the year.
Rules:
1. Paint 150pts minimum per month (no artifacts included) for the entire year.
2. Rebasing a unit gives you 20% of the points value of that unit i.e. rebasing a 200pts unit is worth 40pts.
3. You don’t have to stick to the same army, although that is preferable.
So a way of introduction, I asked the Tale of London Gamers to answer the following questions:
1. What is your name and how long have you been playing Kings of War?
2. What is your proudest Kings of War or wargaming achievement?
3. What are your top 3 wargaming related goals for 2026?
Onto the players…
Tony Ringrose
1. Tony bout 3-4 years by my reckoning
2. Was pleased to come 2nd in the lgt ambush tournament a couple years back
3. Paint gobbo army to 2300pts
Finish my English civil war army
Finish my tt combat projects (rumbleslam, drop fleet dropzone)
Stephen Stead
1. 3 years
2. World Champion at Ultra Modern and winning Shroud this year
3a) play more than 2 factions this year with my own armies
3b) recover my ranking positions in the three systems I play after illness has dropped me out of contention in 2025
3c) play more of the game systems I have collected and not or barely touched
Dzhayke Sahmmunsmeeth (Jake)
1. I’ve been playing since summer 2019. I have a 100% win record in second edition, but my competition was probably quite lacking tbf
2. The first time I fielded a fully painted and based army, featuring a lot of minis I’d had since I was 11. I honestly thought I’d never do it.
3. i - Get my orcs properly rebased for KoW to the standard they deserve
ii - Get my hobby room setup at least functional (properly stored armies, painting table, bookshelves nicely stacked, art on the walls)
iii - Finish a full table’s worth of terrain and buildings suitable for KoW
Sebastian Richard Reeves
1. Started with 1st ed., but only got serious with 2nd ed., when the old world blew up.
2. Greatest achievement is when my tower of halflings (inspired by a trip to Barcelona) won best reaper.
3. Goals for 2026: to finish at least one of my KoW armies, to go to at least 1 more event that last year, and finally try and make it to Warfare 2026.
Faizan
1. Never played a game, had some ogres for about 2 years
2. I have never wargamed before in my life.
3. To have war gamed, but also built up a fully painted ogre army- and perhaps start another army when I get a feel for the game OR use my old world figures as proxy for a kow army
Grant Alexander (me)
1. Started playing 2nd edition, coming over from WFFB at the conclusion of the End Times where they destroyed the Old World.
2. Non-KoW related would be winning best painted army at my first and only Dropzone Commander tournament. KoW related would be qualifying twice and competing once in the UK KoW Masters event.
3. Attend at least 4 events, paint enough models of a non-Nightstalker army to be legally fieldable 2.3k pts army, rebase all required painted heroes to new base size (at least all my NS ones).
Lastly…
Robert James
1. Robert the Elf Slayer has results on Masters all the way back to the start in 2018.
2. Making Masters every year in 3rd Ed despite being rubbish at the game.
3. Complete Ogres, Nightstalkers and KoM (Bretonnians). Also to beat Max Dell as often as possible, so much so that originally it was all 3 of his goals…
I left Rob til last as he has a special challenge/bet with me for 2026.
**The Bet**
Rob bet me that he could paint 3 legal 2300pt armies in 2026. Models can only be used in one army. So he has to paint 6900pts during the year to win the bet.
Now you might not know Rob but he has what I’d describe as a slower than average painting pace.
**The forfeit**
If Rob manages to complete his mission I have to get a T-shirt printed that says “Robert is my Hobby Hero” on it and where it to every tournament I attend in 2027.
If he fails, I’ll be needing some inventive ideas for his punishment.
I’ll be posting updates monthly on Fanatics. Please keep the replies encouraging. If you want to “play along” please feel free to do so on the comments on the monthly posts! I’d love to see the progre
Much love to all, and to all the ToLG good luck!
