October review and November goals

October is gone and it went... Surprisingly well.

On the Warhammer front, I'm taking a breather. The new codexes are brutal and I need to reassess my daemons before continuing. Good thing I have other stuff to occupy me.

We restarted the Dungeon of the Mad Mage and immediately went on a hiatus again. Working with minimum capacity is brutal for scheduling. Alas we are scheduled to play once again next week, wish us best of luck.

At least we are active in Avernus, as the blog posts show. We are preparing for a Mad Max style bit next.

Finally ASOIAF will take center stage in November as I'll attend the Realms of Battle event in Warsaw. I don't expect to win any prizes with the amount of practice I haven't been getting, but it should be fun, at least if my leg will hold it together.

Speaking of ASOIAF, the Free Folk have been central to October's hobby activities. I painted my last units and so this project is finished - for now. I still have a few Guard stragglers, both infantry and vehicles are still coming in slowly. However I might skip painting them in favor of more daemon troops. I'll dip into Tzeentch first with a lot of screamers on the painting table, then whatever I come up with next. I am just on schedule with the painting count, and I want to keep it that way.

So... I painted Free Folk and played daemons during October, and I'll do the reverse during November.

Painting commission naga as Heroes 3 Naga Queens

Reaper snake demons, totally following my previous Naga Queen... with a few hiccups.  

Painting commission fantasy heroes

A motley collection of heroes, Reaper bones except the metal dwarf.

Chaos Daemons vs Custodes, 20.10.2026

We tested the new Custodes codex! I used a similar list as last time, but I switched out the two Khorne heralds for a unit of Pink Horrors. On the other side... surprisingly many models, with 21 Sisters of Silence present. That, and 9 Terminators with Trajan, plus two Dreadnoughts. 

Painting a commission werebear

This werebear painted as a European brown bear. I looked up some pictures of bears and it looked like they were darker in the front and lighter along the back/spine. So I drew inspiration from the polar bear technique and went to work.

Painting a commission bone giant

The "biggest" commission of 2026. 

Chaos Daemons vs Orks, 13.10.2026

Chaos Daemons are back, this time against the brand new ork codex. I made a more well rounded list instead of a monster mash and went at it again with the Daemonic Incursion. Be'lakor is still here with his two bloodthirster buddies, but I had 3 infantry squads in reserve and nurglings clogging up the middle. 

The orks had two loaded squads of meganobz, a big boy squad, the big man Ghaz himself, as well as two dakkarigs and a deff dread. Other units rounded out the list for scoring purposes.