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YOUR SAY
WARGAMING
BIOS
WILL
Will is a self-professed hobby but-
terfly, flitting from project to project;
never truly finishing one before an-
other catches his eye. (though does
anyone ever finish projects in this
hobby).
Introduced to Warhammer Fantasy
Battles about 17 years ago, he was
caught up in the stories and char-
acters and the ability to represent
them on a table. Since then he’s
played pretty predominantly Games
Workshop produced games and
has collected many, many forces
of varying sizes, most of which sit
unpainted on a shelf. Happy to play
anything his favourite is definitely
Mordheim, so many amazing mo-
ments and memories. The highlight
is when playing “The Lost Prince” a
vampire made it to the top of the
tower where the young princeling
was hiding, surrounded by enemies
and with no way out, the two leapt
from the tallest balcony (approxi-
mately 15” high). With the prince-
ling broken and dead at his feet the
bewildered vampire fled the scene,
cursing the frailties of men. Mord-
heim is the one game where win-
ning and losing is irrelevant since
you still get to play strategic games,
but ones with such a high element
of storytelling.
Will’s main inspiration in the hobby,
and favourite area of it is in convert-
ing and building models. Finding a
cool element of a story or charac-
ter and creating a new army around
that theme. He likes to restrict him-
self to certain elements of a faction
and drill down into that visual aes-
thetic to create a warband or army
with a lot of character to it. Some of
his favourites include his Arabyan
Ogre Kingdoms army, Slaaneshi Pit
Fighter warband, Dark Elf Corsair
fleet – which includes a converted
Dreadfleet ship, and his very WIP
Space Ork army that has pillaged a
museum (pirates, cowboys, gang-
sters and egyptians). But his abso-
lute favourite army is his next army.
Will isn’t really a ‘gamer’ as such, he
really enjoys playing the game, but
more for the opportunity to create
amazing/fun moments on the tab-
letop. Due to the nature of convert-
ing, his armies are always a little bit
of a struggle to play with, but much
fun is had regardless.