Love all those units! So nice to see so much progress from people in the community.
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Thank you. I’m glad it seems to be encouraging some people to get some hobby done.
I’m a bit stuck myself what to paint next as I’ve technically finished my entry for this month (basing the Impalers and a Soulbane):
So technically I can take it easy for the rest of the month but would like to have something on the go to work on.
(245x3)*0.2 + (165x0.2) = 180pts (+3UFF)
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Tale of London Gamers 2026 - June entries
Some great entries this month. Also did a check in since we are half way through the year.
Tony Ringrose
2 sharpsticks and goblin character
= 180 + 165 = 345 (+3UFF)
Stephen Stead
Phoenix
= 180 (+1UFF)
Dzhayke Sahmmunsmeeth
Troop gore riders and rebased riftforger
=158 (+1UFF)
Grant Alexander
Based the 3 Impaler regiments from last month, and a Soulbane + painted a elf special character
=180 + 165 = 345 (+4UFF)
Checked on the points painted and currently Tony is in 1st place, I’m in 2nd place, and Stephen is just behind in 3rd.
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Nice job! I love the special character
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So haven’t done any more hobby this month as I’m undecided what to paint next.
This past Saturday I attended a KoW tournament that I co-organised with Roll out the Barrels organiser Seb and my fellow Shroud of the Reaper co-TO Mark. The combination of the two teams was lovingly called “Roll out the Reaper” and the event was called “Cask in the Sun”.
It was an escalation event. 3 games over 1 day. Army lists were 2 battalion system. 1 battalion had to be 1k pts, and the other 1300pts. Game 1 used the 1k pts battalion, game 2 used the 1300pts, and game 3 used the full 2.3k pts.
The army I took. The chariot was the ale cart, a special character used only in game 2.
Game 1 Compass Points vs Seb (Halflings) using Battalion 2
Co-organisers faced off . I’ve played Seb a few times before. He was running a bit late, as was one of the players. We nearly amended the draw, but decided against it and we had a game.
I went for a bit of a change and took a lot of windblast in the list. The doppelgangers at this points level was also a risk. The windblast was good fun especially with units being kept at bay or blowing them back or sideways onto difficult terrain.
Seb ended up taking the fight to me with his iron beast (he had 2 in the full list) and the troll gunner hero dude. Difficult to take down the hero with the doppelgangers. Had to use the mindscreech to drain life and heal up the doppelgangers. Iron beast got flank charged but man that thing is tough. I kept the doppelgangers in the fight long enough to kill it.
Luck broke my way and I managed to kill all of Sebs units and claim all 4 objectives whist somehow keeping my units alive (drain life helped a lot).
Game 2 Invade+ vs Matis (Twilight Kin) with Battalion 1
With zero shooting in his list, and loads of attacks I’m always at a disadvantage playing vs Matis. He’s also a really decent player and our games are super close.
The main key to this game was getting the cart into opponents deployment zone as that was worth 2pts. Keeping it alive was just worth the 1pt. I ran the cart full speed down the right flank and hid it behind impassable terrain (cart in his deployment zone, terrain kinda half in/half out). That’s where it stayed all game.
Matis killed like 50% more of my army than I did of his. I got lucky with the mutants who didn’t quite manage to one shot the butchers. It was a close game but I won by a single scenario point due to my cart being in his deployment zone .
Game 3 Seek and Destroy vs Ryan (Ogres) full list
Last game saw me take on an Ogre list that had be curb stomping people. New Fracture update was allowed and was great to see the interesting builds and new flavour the list had.
This was largely a stand off. We both grabbed a couple of tokens. Ryan had to drop one to charge his chariots into the fiends that had been holding the left flank with little support. I kept wind blasting units all over the place, with personal favorites being doing it constantly back through a wood once all the way out the back to an unlucky ogre warrior regiment (only way to keep them out of the fight on the left flank). Ryan tried to block with a hero but couldn’t be in more than 1 place. Although he out ranged me he wanted to keep out of my charge range so I was happy to wait it out as he would have to come to me (he had 1 token on the seigebreakers, and I was holding 4 tokens by turn 5). Turn 5 I charged the soulflayers in the way to block 2 units from moving and cover the doppelgangers getting token 5. This basically meant he only had a turn or 2 tops to get some tokens.
We were both rushing as clocks were low on time and some confusion happened. He charged one of my units carrying a token, killed it and claimed the token. He ended up keeping it. I then charged that unit, and then rolled nerve. I thought I killed it and so did Ryan then he rechecked the stats after he removed it and said that he didn’t think I did…we were both unsure and I don’t remember what I rolled so I rerolled and it was enough. I then turned the unit to look at the hindered seigebreakers but when I measured they were a mm outside 10”. They would have been in range had I not killed that unit (it was worth the risk either way as it would have drawn the seigebreakers in range of a few of my units to counter charge). When Ryan measured it was 10” exactly. Even if I hadn’t killed the unit, I’d have won 4-2 rather than 5-1 so in the end it didn’t matter that much. We both ended up out of time in our respective last turn. I let Ryan finish rolling his combats and he did the same in kind and that was the game.
So 3 games. 3 wins. The result was Best General! 1st place. I got runner up for best army and best model.
It was a fun day and because we didn’t quite have the numbers it was an unranked event so was nice and relaxed.
Seb presenting me with me 1st place “trophy”:
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Nice looking army (unsurprisingly!) and sounds a fun way to do a three game event.
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Thank you.
It was an interesting list building exercise. Previously Seb had done 2 different factions who then ally together in the last game. That would have been a bit simpler, and meant that I didn’t have to spend as many points in the core (since you had to take 6 core minimum for the 2 battalions).
The difficulty would have been choosing the two different factions and if it was TK and NS remembering which army the NS units were from 
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Still no painting, but been printing some salamander models.
I’ve got some thoughts on the Vault and improvements that should be made. If anyone wants me to go into detail I’m happy to. The TL;DR version is basically it has great potential, but like a lot of things Mantic does it is isn’t meeting that potential.
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Wow, Lekelidons seem to be big.
A friend of mine has access to the Vault for a long time, maybe since the start.
He gave me a unit of Soulflayers once, but he started with a disclaimer like “Hey, I don’t know what happened, I didn’t change the scale, but are those guys supposed to be that big?”.
And he was right. They are around 120% the size of the models I bought and are really hulking. So we decided to minimize them to around 80% and that’s way more appropriate.
What issues did you experience?
Yeah the scale of the Soulflayers is a known issue that has been reported many times with zero action.
One of the many issues I have with the vault.
The Komodon tail failed to print the first time because the pre supported version was frankly laughable.
You see where the failure is? That’s because there are no supports on that part of the tail. The QC on the supported files is lacking…
…also the way the files are done is Illogical. The benefit of resin printing is that you can avoid having to assemble a good amount of a model. However, instead of digitally assembling the model to reduce down the number of parts where it makes sense, some files are broken down to the nth degree.
There should be an easy way to report issues. They recently updated the Vaults Facebook page to have all the posts requiring admin approval. So negative feedback posts don’t see the light of day. I tried to create a thread where people could report issues so they could be fixed and it was denied. Really winds me up when you do report an issue and they pass the buck or tell you how to fix it. I pay for a product/service. If I have to do the work myself then should expect to pay less because I’m not getting a service…
Recently I purchased the “New to the Vault” Salamander bundle so I’d have the full Salamander army as STL files. However, the Phoenix is not only missing from the pack, it’s not even listed as a Salamander unit.
The Vault ordering system makes no sense, and you can’t search it within the library…the list of issues goes on. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to justify supporting the Vault.
/End of rant
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Tale of London Gamers - July 2026
#ToLG2026
So month 7 has been and gone.
So how did people do?
Grant Alexander
Rebased 3 x banshee = 108pts
Stephen Stead
Painted a Mindscreech = 165pts (+1UFF)
Tony Ringrose
Painted a unit of Rabble = 80pts (+1UFF)
Dzhayke Sahmmunsmeeth
Painted Troop of gore riders (130pts)
Rebased ax reg (120/5 =24 pts)
Total = 154 pts (+1UFF)
Sebastian Richard Reeves
Wild runners rebased (22pts)
Poachers regiment (145pts)
Total =167pts (+1UFF)
Robert James & Faizan Shaikh again no entries sadly.
So overall a low scoring month. I closed the gap on Tony’s overall lead, and Stephen closed the gap from 3rd place.
Tune in next month to see if Rob ever gets off the starting block or if Professor Procrastination puts it
off for another month
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Tale of London Gamers - August 2026
Apologies for the lateness of my post. I’ve been on holiday then catching up with work…
Only a few entries this month. Some people painted up non-counting models this month but should be back to KoW next month.
Tony Ringrose
Painted a whole Vermyn army and based them…just not for Kings of War. We agreed that the Nightmares (regiment and troop) and Mutant Rat Fiend without basing would count (as he could technically field them on a suitable movement tray). Also painted a unit of mincers.
= 704pts (+1UFF)
Dzhayke Sahmmunsmeeth (Jake)
Rebased mounted stormcaller (29) and on foot godspeaker (19), plus freshly painted and based tundra wolf troop (110)
= 158pts (+1UFF)
Grant Alexander (Me)
Went on a bit of a rebasing spree for my Nightstalkers. Rebased 3 Souldrinkers (worst character in NS list), 2 horrors, and Shakira.
= 150pts (+0UFF)
As far as the leaderboard goes, Tony has extended his lead this month at the top of the table. Jake remains consistent each month. I’m pretty much done with the Nightstalkers rebasing (just 3 X shades and my second dream hunter left I think).
I’ll be painting up my Reaper model for Shroud of the Reaper ThanksKilling.
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