Excellent artwork dude. Well done.

R.

You know, I rather think they do.

The GW dwarf miner champion can have a steam drill. With a bit of conversion work, that can be turned into a flame lance. That should do for playing with - just inform your opponent that the weapon counts as a steam drill.

Hi Casaninbetween – thanks for you interpretation on the rules.

What I decided on was that because firedamp etc. is highly volatile the flame lance would only need to have a low energy flame as this would give the dwarfs had greater control on where and more importantly when the gas was ignited. This would speed up the tunnelling similar to the steam drill. Because the lance would be in the full force of any explosion it is very substantial therefore its weight is used in close combat giving the advantage of additional strength and disadvantage of attacking last – just like the steam drill in fact.

In my conversion of the figure on page one I have used bits from both the steam drills so other than explaining the little blue flame and missing bit it’s been accepted as a weird looking drill by non-believers, and local GW staff.

I’ve still got to finish the unit filler but my main problem is I have to find a new web host. The space for the web site in my signature is nearly full but I had another with Orange, which I also used to store photos on. Over the summer Orange made changes to the way they offered web space and deleted the sites they already hosted. The way they run their new customer web sites wont allow pictures to be linked to from other sites so have got to find a new host who will allow FTP transfers. I did try one but when I went to upload some pictures the other day everything had been deleted and they had put up a message that I’d contravened their conditions of use. They’ve not sent me any details of what I’ve done wrong though and Orange had happily hosted the contents for a number of years with out any problems. Perhaps they don’t like teddy bears?

If or when the new space becomes available I’ll repost the pictures of the Watch Unit, and also of my next unit, Colon’s old regiment The Duke of Quirm’s Medium Infanty.