Warmaster Fantasy - Chaos Counter Set Revised

 "Woe, O world! The Age of Mortals is coming to an end. Time passes into oblivion, and the stars lapse in the sky. The dreadful breed of night is crawling out of darkness, to take possession of the world. Fools! Seek refuge in faith or madness, for there's no longer any other place to hide. The Reign of Chaos has begun!..." -—Egrimm van Horstmann, Champion of Tzeentch.

Honestly, I forgot that I hadn't revised the Chaos set and the Wood Elves set Thanks, Warqueen, for reminding me earlier in the week! The result is this revised Chaos set that replaces the set I originally made 18 years ago for the WM Yahoo email list. Plus, this set will print to the full 20mm x 40mm counters, unlike the old set, which I have deleted.

A Few New Tweaks
I experimented with the cavalry units in this set, giving four stands of the same image, a stand with the unit's type on it like "Knights," and an extra stand having a standard bearer. This will allow players to visually create a unit how they like, such as when brigading cav units, without having to print extra copies. It was a thought I had. Plus I made a few other tweaks here and there, like Hounds properly based as cavalry.

In the Works
The Wood Elves set is in the works, along with sets for the other armies in Revolution that I haven't made yet. I want my Beastmen army! (I bought the excellent 15mm beastmen figures during Splintered Light's kickstarter last year. They are awesome figures, if you like 15mm, and Dave at SL is a great guy to work with on custom orders.)

Well, I hope you like these counters. I appreciate any and all comments. I'm always surprised how many sets are downloaded every month. Stay healthy!

Printing the Counters
I hope you find these paper army sets useful. You can print them at places like Staples or Kinkos, using 110lb card stock paper printed at actual size. You can also print on regular paper and then glue the counters to wooden bases. (Check the older posts on how I did this with my Empire army.) Do not print the pdf to "fit margins." Always print at 100%.  I like printing the counter sets on good copy paper, spray gluing the dull side of a 'Silver Age' comic backing board with Super77, attaching a sheet to the board, and then cutting out the counters using a sharp Xacto knife with a steel ruler. Using the backing boards makes for cheap, sturdy counters. I like keeping the shiny side down to make moving them easier on a table. Note: This version is designed to fit Silver Age and larger comic backing boards.

Click on the counter set image above to download the complete army counter set in PDF format. The set has enough counters to create many armies of 2000 points or less. Of course, if you need more counters simply print more copies!

Sample Chaos Army Lists
Way back in 2001, Chuck Goetz of the WM Yahoo group posted his favorite 1000, 1500, and 2000 point Chaos armies, along with advice on using those armies. Since my first Warmaster army I bought was a boxed Chaos set, I saved these lists. I've included them below to help Chaos players get started. Remember, these were for the original Warmaster game. If you play Warmaster Revolution, some of the points per unit have changed. The 1,500 and 2,000 point armies had been tested in battle and worked well. The 1,000 point army was untested but looked good. If you have any suggestions, advice, or Chaos army lists of your own, please leave them in the comments section below. Enjoy!

Total Points: 1,000
Break Point: 4
1x Chaos Warriors
2x Chaos Marauders
1x Ogres
1x Chaos Knights
1x Chaos Chariots
1x Harpies
1x General with Orb of Majesty
1x Sorcerer

In original Warmaster, you will have 20 points to play with. In Warmaster Revolution, you will have 30 points left over. The remaining 20 points, if playing original WM, can be spent on either a Scroll of Dispelling or some Swords for the Knights and Chariots. Chuck says this army makes a very strong infantry brigade, a hard hitting cavalry brigade, and a swift-striking flying unit to take out artillery or cut retreats. With only 7 units, you have a low breakpoint of 4 (albeit almost all units have at least a 5+ save), but you only need two leaders. Taking a Sorcerer gives you the opportunity to use magic. As an alternative, you can save 10 points and increase the command radius by taking a Hero instead. (If playing Revolution, you will still have 20 points left to spend on magic items or as you please.)

Total Points: 1,500
Break Point: 7
1x Chaos Warriors
3x Chaos Marauders
1x Ogres
1x Trolls
2x Marauder Horsemen
1x Chaos Knights with Sword of Might
2x Chaos Hounds
1x Chaos Chariots
1x Harpies
1x General with Orb of Majesty
1x Hero
1x Sorcerer with Scroll of Dispelling

This army has two strong, hard-hitting infantry brigades (either 4/2 or 3/3), albeit one that is harder to move due to Troll stupidity. Meanwhile, the cavalry is usually divided into two brigades of three units, one on each flank. Each brigade has a Chaos Hounds unit, a Marauder Horsemen unit, and a Chaos Chariots or Chaos Knights unit. Alternatively, you can put the Chaos Chariots and Chaos Knights in the same brigade to make one really hard-hitting brigade (31 attacks from those two units themselves). The Harpies do their usual thing of looking for targets of opportunity and harassing artillery. The General usually leads in the middle, with the other leaders each taking charge of a flank. You might want to consider removing the Trolls and the Sword of Might, replacing them with two units of Marauder infantry for the same price. Likewise, you could remove one of the Marauder Horsemen units for a second unit of Chaos Chariots. Many possibilities here.

Total Points: 2,000
Break Point: 8
2x Chaos Warriors
2x Chaos Marauders
2x Ogres
1x Marauder Horsemen
1x Chaos Knights with Sword of Cleaving
1x Chaos Knights with Sword of Destruction
2x Chaos Hounds
1x Chaos Chariots
2x Harpies
1x General with Orb of Majesty
1x Hero on Chaos Dragon with Sword of Might
1x Sorcerer with Scroll of Dispelling
1x Sorcerer

This army is only two units bigger than the 1,500 point army, giving it a breakpoint of 8, but is tougher all across the board. Now, the infantry have 4 units with 4 attacks and hits per stand, and none suffers from stupidity. There are two Chaos Knights units, one for each flank. There is a dragon-mounted Hero to add punch to any attack. There is a second Sorcerer to increase the chances of casting battle magic and the spell 'Anger of the Gods' to inhibit enemy movement. Finally, the two Harpies units can inflict their usual misery on the enemy. If you feel six units of infantry are too few, an alternative is to trade a unit of Chaos Hounds and all the magic swords for a third Marauder infantry unit.

Going to Rapier Con Febuary 8-10

My son and I will be going to Rapier Con in Jacksonville, FL during the weekend of February 8-10. It's the first time I'll have played real miniature games in years. We're looking forward to it. Plus, I got a new cell phone (S9+) over the holidays, so I actually have an awesome camera again to shoot photos. It's been years since I had a good camera, hence the lack of photos and articles here. I'm edging my way back into miniature gaming. :-)

Warmaster Fantasy - Dogs of War Counter Set (New!)

"Unlike other Warmaster armies, the Dogs of War do not come from a particular place, nor do they comprise a particular race, although men do feature very strongly amongst their number. They are bands of warriors who live by fighting - fighting for pay, fighting for adventure and, most importantly of all, fighting for the chance to win fabulous wealth." -- Warmaster Trial Armies

The Dogs of War, with their crazy Regiments of Renown, have always been sitting at the back of my mind to do as a counter set. After years of waiting, they are finally here. This is a largest set of counters I have made! There are RoRs from classic Warhammer, complete with their leaders when possible. You can recreate Leopold's Leopard Company, the Birdmen of Catrazza, Bronzino's Gallope Guns, Marksmen of Miragiliano, Alcatani Fellowship, and more.

I've tried to use as many of the actual Warhammer DoW figures as possible, though I did wander off to Foundry, Warlord, and others when I had to. Except for a few counters, everything is new in this set. (I didn't want to 'cheat' and re-use counters from other sets.) I've tried to give as much variety as possible. Want a lot of dwarf mercenaries, complete with flouncy shirts? We got them! Plus mercenaries from Kislev, the Empire, Araby, Tilea, and even Goblins.

I hope you enjoy this latest set. If you use them, please post a comment below, letting me know.

Printing the Counters
I hope you find these paper army sets useful. You can print them at places like Staples or Kinkos, using 110lb card stock paper printed at actual size. You can also print on regular paper and then glue the counters to wooden bases. (Check the older posts on how I did this with my Empire army.) Do not print the pdf to "fit margins." Always print at 100%.  I like printing the counter sets on good copy paper, spray gluing the dull side of a 'Silver Age' comic backing board with Super77, attaching a sheet to the board, and then cutting out the counters using a sharp Xacto knife with a steel ruler. Using the backing boards makes for cheap, sturdy counters. I like keeping the shiny side down to make moving them easier on a table. Note: This version is designed to fit Silver Age and larger comic backing boards.

Click on the counter set image above to download the complete army counter set in PDF format. The set has enough counters to create many armies of 2000 points or less. Of course, if you need more counters simply print more copies! Unfortunately, I don't have any sample DoW armies.

Warmaster Fantasy - Skaven Counter Set Revised

I've always been a 'ratman' fan since childhood. I've played them in every game that has them. In Legends of the Five Rings CCG, I had a Ratling deck that constantly recycled ratling cards from the graveyard. It was a blast! Anyway...  This set of Skaven counters replaces the set that I did way back in 2003 while I was active on the Warmaster Yahoo email list. Unlike the old set, which was slightly undersized, this set will print to the full 20mm x 40mm counters. I tried as best to give this set a horde look. For example, the Rat Swarms counter have several pack leader stands you can use any way you like. You could create a brigade of Rat Swarms and have one of the stands in the rear be the pack leader. This set can be used with any version of Warmaster along with other mass-combat fantasy rules. I you enjoy them.

"Skaven are neither rats nor humans but a vile combination of the two races. The origins of the Skaven are not known for certain. It is likely they were mutated at the dawn of the Age of Chaos when powerful waves of magic swamped the world. Millions of tons of magically energised material were hurled over the planet in the form of meteorites... Creatures that breathed the dust or strayed within the radiating power of the larger stones became mutated into the most horrible monsters. The Skaven may well have mutated from ordinary vermin as a result of consuming this corrupting material - or 'warpstone' as they call it. Even today the Skaven crave warpstone." -- the Warmaster rulebook

Printing the Counters
I hope you find these paper army sets useful. You can print them at places like Staples or Kinkos, using 110lb card stock paper printed at actual size. You can also print on regular paper and then glue the counters to wooden bases. (Check the older posts on how I did this with my Empire army.) Do not print the pdf to "fit margins." Always print at 100%.  I like printing the counter sets on good copy paper, spray gluing the dull side of a 'Silver Age' comic backing board with Super77, attaching a sheet to the board, and then cutting out the counters using a sharp Xacto knife with a steel ruler. Using the backing boards makes for cheap, sturdy counters. I like keeping the shiny side down to make moving them easier on a table. Note: This version is designed to fit Silver Age and larger comic backing boards.

Click on the counter set image above to download the complete army counter set in PDF format. The set has enough counters to create many armies of 2000 points or less. Of course, if you need more counters simply print more copies!

Sample Skaven Army List

Total Points: 2,000
Break Point: 27/14
6x Clanrats
4x Jezzails
4x Plague Monks
6x Rat Swarms
2x Gutter Runners
1x Rat Ogres
1x Warp Lightning Cannon
2x Doom Wheel
1x Screaming Bell
1x Grey Seer
3x Hero
1x Warlock
1x Sword of Fate

Warmaster Fantasy - Bretonnian Counter Set Revised

"Bretonnia has grown into a powerful and influential nation under the leadership of its proud King Leoncour. At the capital of Couronne the greatest knights gather to attend their king and to accept from him such heroic quests as he chooses to set them. To the knights of Bretonnia honour is everything and it is an undoubted fact that a knight would sooner die than bring dishonour upon himself or his lord." -- the Warmaster Rulebook

Printing the Counters
I hope some of you find these counter sets useful.You can print these at office printing places, like Staples, using heavy card stock paper printed at actual size. You can also print on regular paper and then glue the counters to wooden bases. (Check the older posts on how I did this with my Empire army.) Currently, I'm printing the counter sets at Staples using regular paper, spray gluing the back of each sheet with Super77, attaching each sheet to an old comic book backing board, and then cutting out the counters using a sharp Xacto knife with steel ruler. Using the backing boards makes for cheap, sturdy counters.

Click on the counter set image above to download the complete army counter set in PDF format. The set has enough counters to create many armies of 2000 points or less. Of course, if you need more counters simply print more copies. Unfortunately, I don't have any sample Bretonnian armies to list.

Warmaster Ancients - Dacian Counters (Revised & Updated)

If you are using my Early Imperial Roman counter set or already have a miniature EIR army, you need enemies for Rome to fight other than itself in civil war. The Dacians are an excellent barbarian enemy army for the Early Imperial Romans. Update: This set, which I uploaded May 2018, replaces the previous set, bringing it inline with the other "revised" counters I had started making a few years prior, as well us updating some of the images.

A Brief History of the Dacian Wars
According to Encyclopedia Britannica Online: "Dacia, in antiquity, the area of the Carpathian Mountains and Transylvania, in present north-central and western Romania. The Dacian people had earlier occupied lands south of the Danube and north of the mountains, and the Roman province eventually included wider territories both to the north and east. The Dacians were agricultural and also worked their rich mines of silver, iron, and gold. They first appeared in the Athenian slave market in the 4th century bc; subsequently they traded with the Greeks (importing especially wine) and used Greek coins. They spoke a Thracian dialect but were influenced culturally by the neighbouring Scythians and by the Celtic invaders of the 4th century bc. The Dacians engaged Roman troops in 112, 109, and 75 bc. In about 60–50 bc King Burebista unified and extended the kingdom, which, however, split into four parts after his death.

During the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus (ruled 27 bc–ad 14) and again in ad 69 the Dacians raided the Roman province of Moesia but were beaten back. The Dacian Wars (ad 85–89) under the emperor Domitian resulted in their recognition of Roman overlordship. The Romans under Trajan reopened hostilities in ad 101 and by 106 subdued the whole country. A large part of the population was either exterminated or driven northward. The Romans seized an enormous amount of wealth (the Dacian Wars were commemorated on Trajan’s Column in Rome) and immediately exploited the Dacian mines. Roman influence was broadened by the construction of important roads, and Sarmizegethusa and Tsierna (Orsova) were made colonies. The new province was divided under Hadrian: Dacia Superior corresponded roughly to Transylvania and Dacia Inferior to the region of Walachia.

In ad 159 Antoninus Pius redivided the region into three provinces, the Tres Daciae (Dacia Porolissensis, Dacia Apulensis, and Dacia Malvensis), all subordinate to one governor of consular rank. Marcus Aurelius made the provinces a single military region in about ad 168. The limits of Roman territory were probably never clearly defined, but the Romans benefitted both militarily and materially from the occupation."

The Dacian Counters
While I try to stick to the troop names that Warmaster Ancients uses, I had to take a few liberties with this set so the id on some counters did not consume the entire counter. I changed "Sarmatian Cavalry" to "Roxolani Cavalry" and "Dacian Mounted Skirmishers" to "Dacian Cavalry" for such reasons. As with my other Warmaster Ancients sets, I've tried to provide enough counters for a typical 2000-point army. However, 1,200 to 1,500 points seems to be the Warmaster Ancients sweet spot. Counter images are from Wargames Foundry and Warlords.

Revised Counter Set
I recently revised this set to print the counters at the proper size because the previous set I uploaded printed the counters slightly too small.


Printing the Counters
I hope some of you find these counter sets useful.You can print these at office printing places, like Staples, using heavy card stock paper printed at actual size. You can also print on regular paper and then glue the counters to wooden bases. (Check the older posts on how I did this with my Empire army.) Currently, I'm printing the counter sets at Staples using regular paper, spray gluing the back of each sheet with Super77, attaching each sheet to an old comic book backing board, and then cutting out the counters using a sharp Xacto knife with steel ruler. Using the backing boards makes for cheap, sturdy counters.

Click on the counter set image above to download the complete Dacian counter set in PDF format. The set has enough counters to create any of the sample armies below. Of course, if you need more counters simply print more copies!

1,000 Points
1x General w/Portents
1x Leader
1x Subordinate
8x Warriors
3x Archers
1x Falxmen
2x Skirmishers
2x Sarmations
1x Mounted Skirmishers
Total Points: 995   Break Point: 7

1,000 Points
1x General w/Portents
1x Leader
1x Subordinate
8x Warriors
4x Archers
2x Falxmen
3x Skirmishers
1x Sarmations
1x Mounted Skirmishers
Total Points: 995  Break Point: 8