D&D Monster Manual 38: Wrath of Ashardalon Villains – Complete!

Dungeons and Dragons Wrath of Ashardalon Villains - Complete Painted Set

Similar to my recent post where I shared the completed Villains from the Castle Ravenloft adventure board game, here’s the set of baddies from Wrath of Ashardalon all together.

This is really a post where pictures tell more than the words, and besides – a good chgunk of these models have been shown over the last month or so as I worked my way through the set.

As with the Ravenloft post, if you’re perhaps new to this blog and interested in seeing more focused pics of any of the individual models, they can be found by browsing the “Dungeons and Dragons” category.

I’ll get pics of the combined Ravenloft and Ashardalon models posted up at some stage. Posting all my “D&D” mosters is a bit more difficult, since technically almost every fantasy model I own can legitimately be used in various flavours of D&D – so not only the mounds of Warhammer stuff, but also pretty much anything made by Reaper with all of their “Not-” models – so maybe I’ll just keep[ it to the official-ish ones when I eventually do take some pics of that nature?

I’ve barely scratched the models from The Legend of Drizzt at this point, so there won’t be an “all in” post for that or the other, subsequent games anytime soon…

As requested, I’m also throwing in a few “gaming” shots of Marouda and I playing through the Ashardalon campaign(s) over the last month or so, You can kind of see a progression by the models on display and the state of how painted they are.

Marouda’s Dragonborn characters – we played through using two characters each.

Encountering the Rage Drake boss! …

…and then Ashardalon joined in via an Adventure Card – this was before we re-read the rules and found that the Ashardalon Arrives! Card is supposed to be removed from the deck in most scenarios, making things quite a bit harder for ourselves when things like this kept happening when Ashardalon would drop into the other scenarios randomly and cause a bit of trouble. Then again, at that point we’d also not realised that the Ashardalon Breathes! card shouldn’t be in there but gets used in a special way once Ashardalon spawns, so those extra Ashardalon spawns were slioghtly less difficult, and when we drew the card otherwise it was effectively a turn free from random bad encounters.

We’ve now completed the Ashardalon game, and are playing through the Ravenloft game’s adventures. We did play through that campaign in its entirety with our former gaming group almost 10 years ago and back in that other dimension that we all used to live in before Pandemic. So I figured it wouldn’t hurt to run through those adventures again before moving to the Drizzt game.

Officio Assassinorum: Imperial Assassin (Rogue Trader, 1991)

Officio Assassinorum: Imperial Assassin (Rogue Trader, 1991), Jes Goodwin

Backing up even firther from yesterday’s Vindicare Assassin post is the original Imperial Assassin model from 1991. Armed with a Combi-Weapon that bears more than a passing similarity to the weapon weilded both by the later Eversor Assassin and the various carbines held by modern Adeptus mechanicus models, this guy was rolled in together with some of the earlier Rogue Trader models from the various Adventurers ranges into the nascent Forces of the Imperium category.

Officio Assassinorum: Imperial Assassin (Rogue Trader, 1991), Jes Goodwin

A with yesterday’s assassin, this model is my original dating back from its time of release, and like the Vindicare, it was started but never completed. Even being stripped once and then restarted …and then never completed. As with the Vindicare, the paint job is a homage to the original “official” one, but with the weapon paint and a couple of other things toned down (no need for a checkerboard pattern on this gun in my opinion) – but still retaining some of the nonsensical, like the gem-like knee and elbow pads, the red tassels on the power sword, and the brown straps on his ninja-thongs (flip-flops to you Americans!)

The base deco is a Rogue Trader-era Eldar head that I cast off an existing model using Oyumaru for the mold and Kneadatite for the helm. The angles here aren’t the best, but yes, it’s a yellow helm with black tiger stripes to keep it era-approriate.

This leave me with just the Eversor and Callidus Assassins to paint to (finally) have one of each painted. Then I can move to second sculpts…