The Flaywilds Deck - Animosity VIII (part 3)

The Warhammer World meet-up for Animosity VIII is tomorrow, and I'm running a narrative Warcry campaign day there. 

I'm providing all the boards and scenery - the battleplans will be fixed for each board. 

I'll do my best to make sure everyone plays 3 games, on 3 different boards, against 3 different opponents.

Winning a game will earn 5 Varanite Tokens, a draw will earn 3, and a loss earns 1.

I've also stolen written a mini-game for everyone to play at the end of each Warcry battle.

It's heavily based on the Arcane Abilities mechanics from Moonstone, with an extra step.

Players will draw a hand of cards, and the active player must choose one to play, face-down, and declare what the colour and value of that card is... but they're allowed to lie and their opponent has to decide whether to accept it or call their bluff.

Should the resisting player accept it, both gain a small number of additional Varanite Tokens.

Should they call Bluff and the active player was lying - the card is not what they declared - the resisting player may replace the card with one from their hand. This increases the chance the active player will get a smaller, or no reward. If they play a Flaywilds card it will go very badly for the active player!

If the active player was not lying, and card played was the one declared, they not only get a larger reward, but they also may play a second card from their hand.

Varanite Tokens:

I've no idea how well this will work, but we'll see tomorrow, I suppose!

The Flaywilds - Animosity VIII (part 2)

Smoke clouds drift over the scorched forests of the Flaywilds.

Three more pieces of terrain completed for the Chaos Wastes themed Warcry board.

These three pieces were made from old Citadel Woods trees that I've featured in games on my table many times over the years, mostly in Harrowmark campaigns.

I added them to foamcore bases with one or two Gnawhole rocks each, then daubed the bases with a home-made texture paste: A tester pot of matt red emulsion paint, PVA wood glue, sand, and cork crumbs.

I spray-can undercoated the rocks and bases, but (mostly) avoided spraying the trees, since they were already painted brown. I dry-brushed them with Greyseer and gave them one coat of thinned Black Templar Contrast paint.

The stone is a basecoat of Dryad Bark, heavy dry-brush of Mechanicus Standard Grey, light dry-brush of Greyseer, focused on the edges especially.

The sand is basecoated Mournfang Brown, a few uneven coats of thinned Trollslayer Orange - stippled and sponged for texture.

Finally tie the rock into the sand with a 10:1 mix of water : Trollslayer. Wash this around the places stone meets sand. When the water dries it looks like dust blown onto the rocks.

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Update: 22nd July 2026

I've just finished a rocky outcrop piece, made of carved XPS foam, foamcore card, and cork sheet.

The Flaywilds - Animosity VIII (part 1)

I'm trying to channel the vibe of a bit of the art, by John Blanche, from the 1980s GW card game Chaos Marauders (above).

I (re)painted a 15"×9" chonk of terrain. I only changed the dirt from Steel Legion Drab to orange, to match the orange side of the Thondia boards.

• Mournfang Brown base coat
• Sponged and stipled with 2 to 3 coats of Trollslayer Orange
• Recesses washed with 10:1 mix of water:Trollslayer Orange with more water added at the outside edge of each wash (for a dusty effect)

(Annoyingly, the colour looks closer to the board in real life than it does in these photos.)

This photo shows just how big this hill is; it occupies just a little under a quarter of a 30"x22" Warcry board!

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The second (and third, kinda) pieces of terrain I've updated for this board in the Magmadroth Remains.

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Update (6th July 2026)

The Hurricane Bell 

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Update (10th July 2026)

The Eightpoint Dais