Today’s the day I get to show you my completed Warcry board, packed full of all sorts of Azyrite Ruins. I’ve included pictures of all the terrain pieces and even a little painting guide.
Over the summer, I visited Garfy and Dunk in London where we played a few rounds of Warcry at the Bad Moon Café (you can find the battle report and pictures of our warbands in this post). That gave me the motivation to finally tackle my unpainted Warcry terrain. I had already painted some of the pieces (see here), but I wasn’t happy with the dark grey colour scheme. So, I decided to repaint the existing pieces and instead chose a warm, light stone grey that goes with (almost) everything. It also goes well with the grey and green of the board included in the original starter set, with the orange rust being a nice contrast.
My collection is based on the contents of the original Warcry starter set. The ruins are a 1:1 match for the layouts in the box, so you can play the battleplans. However, I removed all the palisades as I found them too ‘chaotic’. I don’t have any Slaves to Darkness in my Warcry collection, so I wanted something more generic. Instead, I added a few more smaller ruin pieces from one of the Azyrite Ruins expansion boxes.
I’ve also included some stylistically matching scatter terrain from Warcry Catacombs, and a wooden platform from Warcry: Red Harvest, which is also where the lava-filled game board comes from.
You can find more pictures of the Azyrite Ruins in this post, and this post, and more about the platform here.
My Azyrite Ruins painting guide
When painting terrain, I always try to keep it as quick and simple as possible. I started with a dark brown primer, Colour Forge Hyrax Brown primer, and then applied a zenithal highlight with the airbrush using Vallejo Game Air Neutral Grey and VGA Stonewall Grey, before drybrushing and adding brown and grey pigments. You can find a detailed description with all the colours used in this post:
Looking at the fully assembled board, I’m pretty chuffed with it. A nice achievement for 2024, and something I can fondly remember in our annual hobby recap posts. Hopefully, the terrain will get used for a game soon.
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