NEW HOUSE NEW WARGAME ROOM and First SAGA V2 game

Greetings fellow travelers! I have moved out of my apartment and I am in my new house. Of course the first thing I did was begin working on my crafting/wargame room. It is tighter quarters than my parents basement but it will do just nicely. 

I added Shelving intended for miniature display... but I quickly realized a more efficient use of space would put the miniatures away in boxes and the delicate terrain should occupy the shelves. 

Here we have half my gaming table 4 x 3. I was unsure if the 6 x 4 would be feasible, but lucky for me it fits, though definitely cramped. 

 Which brings us to the first wargame in my new house as well as the only game since I solo'd rangers of Shadow deep a year or two ago. 

My first game of SAGA V2 as well as Age of Magic. The matchup featured Great Kingdoms consisting of Elves and Men, against the foul undead. The scenario with three center objective markers was selected for play. Ultimately this game is imagined as a battle in Eregion between a Nazgul and undead against an Eregion force of Elves with Dunedain reinforcements.  

Great Kingdoms featured:

• Warlord on horse Elf
• Lieutenant Human
• Champion on Horse Elf
• Hearth Guard Mounted 6x elf
• Warriors 8x elf
• Warriors 10x Human
• Levy Bowmen 12x Elf
• Levy Bowmen 12x Human
• Sorcerer Human

(all characters should have been mounted if i were to build this list again)

Undead composition:

• Warlord
• Black Knight
• Titan
• Quadrepeds x3 (proxy 6 spiders on cav bases)
• Warriors x 10
• Warriors x10
• Mindless x 20
• Hearthguard with Heavy Weapons x4
• War Machine

(for the undead I think I would go for more skeletons, maybe instead of mindless, and if hearth guards are taken they are probably better served as mounted, same with the characters, I also don't think a warmachine was worth it here)

The battle started favorably for the Great kingdoms. The elven cavalry dispatched the spiders in a round or two of combat. Great Kingdoms also seized the initiative closing in all three objectives. 

However, the favor of battle shifted to the undead as the Elven hearth guard cavalry began to dwindle as the Undead Titan lumbered around the battlefield toward the Eastern Objective. The Elven Champion hastened his travel to meet the Titan head on. 

The Champion and Titan exchanged blows for several rounds, but after absorbing many blows the titan slew the Elven Champion. The Elven Prince then surged forward to seize the attach on a tired monster, the Elven hearth guard flanked their Prince to ensure his safety.  The elven bowmen double timed toward the center objective as time was becoming less in their favor as the lumbering zombies were drawing close.  

On The Western side of the field, the Nazgul and guard surged forward followed by their skeleton minions to close on the Eregion battle line and contest the Western objective. 

The human bowmen and human warriors prepared for battle and the human bowmen unleashed on the Nazgul's guard. The Nazgul and guard charged the human warriors doing damage but the warriors stood strong. 

 After the Titan and Hearth guard were killed it was abundantly clear that the Great Kingdoms had one the day. by turn 6 the VP/objective Points were 31 to 16. 

2022 end of spring update

 

Nolzurs trolls

Byzantine Excubitores 450-750. I filled the ranks out to 15. These were made with fireforge Russians/Scandinavian bods and mostly GB saxon heads with victrix plumes. 

Fireforge Byzantine archers with arms from other sets as I used up the actual Byzantine archer arms for horse archers. 

Fireforge Byzantine Spearmen with a few auxiliary arms in the front rank. The shields were my first go at Tamiya tape, I think they came out nicely. My Byzantine forces will deploy as Gondorians, Easterling City militia, and of course Byzantines. 

Fireforge Spanish Almogavars with round shields and three west wind arthurian heads in the front rank. These guys will deploy as Carolingians, Scandinavian Leidang Crusaders, and Tolkien westerners.  

Orc Army Mid 2021

The Orc Forces as they stood in mid 2021. Variety of figures but mostly Northstar and Wargames Factory(now sold by Warlord). Monster's are all Reaper Bones and the Ravens are from Cmon Zombicide. The Wraiths are also reaper bones, and some GB vikings/warlord celts with orc heads fill out the ranks. 

Straight out of the Box Frostgrave Demons

Frostgrave demons with Wargames Factory (Warlord) Orc heads. 

PHOTO DUMP SPRING 2022

Another update to keep tabs on my output.

L TO R

WA Persian with Victrix Dacian head and WA Irish shield, Victrix German, NS familiar, Reaper Wizard

Warlord Celts with Victrix Numidian Heads and NS torch

WA Persians with WA Roman heads and darts. These guys will be light troops for Late Romans and Fantasy troops

WA Persian Bods with WA Roman Heads and arms. Again, Late Roman Troops to double as western imperial fantasy troops

Exclusively NS bits, most from the knight set and some Dwarven bits thrown in

Mantic Northern Clansmen pre wash and basing. I based these with dark earth but am still on the fence whether I should add snow. 

I wanted to fill the ranks of the heavy dwarf regiments so I began using some of the regular dwarf soldier bodies with heavy heads and arms to fill out ranks. 

FF Byzantine Koursores with bank rank converted into horse archers with FF auxiliary bits. I did'nt add shields to the lancers, as lancers pre 600 usually didnt have shields as far as I can tell. Without shields these guys are decent for a huge time period, but I am still on the fence about adding shields. 

GW Lotr Goblins. I have had these unpainted for nearly 20 years. Oathmark finally gave me the urge to fill out ranks.

NS light dwarves and metal command

Victrix Normans to stand in as Late Franks, early crusaders, and fantasy westerners. 

Victrix Normans to stand in as Late Franks, early crusaders, and fantasy westerners. 

Reaper Metal Elf Barbarian, I painted for Chris

GB dark age bodies with WA persian heads and FF mongol shields. These guys are good for persians, Sassanids, and Fantasy Desert City Troops

NS Light Dwarf Rangers and one Metal Command

NS Light Dwarf infantry with NS Barbarian arms on the officer

Updated Dwarf Spearmen with newly equipped tower shields (victrix Roman shields)

Victrix Vikings and some conversions here and there

two more victrix normans

NS Demons, I made more of these after so I am assuming I filled the ranks to ten finished.

Light Infantry for Fantasy Humans and early medieval. Mostly Victrix normans with some other bits thrown in.

These guys were made to fill out my NS Human regiment. They were made with Victrix Norman bodies and some NS heads and shields.

GW Lotr Goblins

FF Byzantine cataphracts

GW Lotr hobbits and Gimli

Crappy Picture of GB Pictish Cavalry

Perry English Bowmen with FF Sergeant heads and Greenstuff

GB Teutonic Bishop

GB Huns. 7 more Horse archers awaiting paint. These will work as generic steppe warriors historical and fantasy.