End of 2017 Mash Up

Happy New Year Friends! Here is a long overdue display of what Ive worked on for the past 6 months or so... Im fairly certain this is only a fraction. Oh well.

My Newest tree technique. Poly Fiber from woodland scenics sprayed with adhesive and sprinkled with flock. Im gonna look to source cheaper poly fiber, hopefully in light green or light brown. or tan?

Game of Saga, Huns Vs. Ostrogoths. Clash of Warlords was played to try the new factions out. The Goths won the day by luck and a poor choice of Warlord positioning. Otherwise the Huns would've likely won the following turn.

Ostrogoths

The Huns

I've had these loads of Warlord Romans unpainted for a while... For some reason I've decided to paint them... Should I have ignored them and purchased the new victrix EIR figures, probably. But maybe I should do a republican army next? Or an Antigonid army?

New Oathmark Northstar Dwarves

I get antsy if I dont do hobby work. So I kitbash and paint!

I really like the Scandinavian Fireforge heads. (Bottom right is a Teutonic head)

Bones Necromancer, GB Metals on the right, and FF Russians

Black Tree Late Romans, Warlord Games General, and a Kitbash GB head with FF russian/scandinavian body

Reaper Bones Ice troll with the addition of snow to the base, and a metal reaper wizard called Darius the Blue

Another lack of direction driven kitbash session

Some pink foam ruins on vinyl tile base. Any Oblivion fans notice the symbol?

Wargames Factory Orcs, I really like these fellows though there are definitely some negatives to the set.

Ice/magic crystals/ore

Wood Elf Gate

Chaos v. Skaven 8th edition. The Game was short lived. I lost early-mid in the game when it seemed likely I was going to break the entire skaven center and catch its Lord. After which He turned my lord and his unit into clanrats. game over, I had little else to work with...

Tall reaper bones figure, and plastic middleeastern/central asian kitbashes

Attempt at jungle terrain, not to happy with the foam bases...

Frostgrave Barbarian wizard and apprentice

GB pictish lord from one of the continental cousins packs

An attempt to make more marsh terrain thats very gameable. I dont love them

Really love the outcome of this hill.

Rubicon Halftrack

Warlord Russians

Black Tree and Warlord partisans

Warlord Pak, with other minis individually placed around it,

Black tree crusaders

Kitbashes

More zombie kitbashes

Terrain creation out of foamcore for the road, corktile for the rocks, and cardboard for the base.

SAGA: Revenge of the Old Gods

Hello Everyone! My Blogging seems to occur when I play one of my quarterly gaming sessions. My painting and terrain building output has been in overdrive but I have no blog posts to show for it. Only the gods know if I'll get around to it.

At any rate, here is some pics of a Saga battle: Revenants vs. Vikings. It was the first outing with both factions for their respective players.

We played the Scenario from the Revenant Rule Supplement Get to the Ships. The Warbands Deploy on opposite short edges of a 3x4 table and the non-revenant faction has the mission of bringing four loot tokens to the opposite short board edge. Instead of Loot tokens we used people. Ansgar, his wife, his son, and his priest.

Jarl Ansgar was sent as an honored guest to Hamburg at an early age. There, he was taught the Christian way, and was arranged to marry a Christian Noblewoman from Denmark. In his absence, his family's lands became openly hostile to a Christian lord. A pagan usurper took claim to lordship.  When Ansgar came of age he took a company of German and Danish warriors to take back his rightful lands in the name of Christ.  The usurper was easily removed, and Ansgar set upon his new mission of Baptizing and converting his subjects.  

The Old Gods' looked on with horror as one of their most devout lands gained a Christian ruler. The Gods' sent their earthly messengers to commune with a nearby shaman. They told the Shaman that he would bring the Gods' Justice to the Land by removing Ansgar from the Earth. The Shaman made haste raising an army of the dead to defeat the traitorous Ansgar.

Thormund Stout Heart, a famous viking warlord, was on his way to Greet Ansgar and honor Ansgar's victory over the Usurper. Thormund did not approve of Christianity but he did not concern himself too much with what the High Lords believed. As long as he and his warriors were free to raid in the Glory of Odin, Thormund was content.

A thick fog fell over the land and the stench of death filled the air. Thormund and his warriors exited the Great Hall and realized the God's were bringing their wrath upon Ansgar. But Thormund felt honor bound to protect Ansgar's bloodline. So Thormund took Ansgar, Ansgar's priest and his family, and arrayyed his warriors for battle. 

Vikings:

2 HG 

1 Beserkers

3 Warriors

Revenant:

5 Revenant Units

1 Grave Pit

Deployment

Pre battle Layout

The Dead Have Risen

Viking Deployment: 2 units of 12 warriors 2 units of 4 hearthguard and 1 beserker unit. 1 hearthguard unit took Ansgar and one 12 man warrior unit took the remaining 3 Civilians.

View forward for the Vikings

Revenants get the first turn, followed by the viking advance

Viking Beserkers and Warriors come charging forward toward the dead like madmen. The Necromancer takes the opportunity to shoot his spells at the unarmoured beserkers but the viking's have protective magic of their own.

The Warriors and zombies are soon to Collide

2 warriors charge forward to gain Valhalla while the rest of the unit does their best to fight honorably and marginally win the combat. Elsewhere the beserkers charge a unit of Dead men and are themselves wiped out felling many of the walkers....Sadly the dead will rise again. However, the vikings call upon the gods for intervention and the gods answer by removing the 3 remaining undead that clashed with the warriors. 1 Revenant unit destroyed.

As the Revenant Units swarmed the remaining warriors the rest of Thormund's forces began to merge and attempt to punch a hole through the center of the field.

Thormund and his guard charge forward in a brave attempt to fell the dead.

Here they come

Ansgar and his Guard

Here's where the pictures stop. Thormund charges some revenants with hearthguard they fail to remove an entire unit and some hearthguard are slain. Fresh revenant units than return charge Thormund and remove all the warriors around him.  

Thormund is all alone, swarmed by zombies and killed.

The vikings had 1 12 man warrior unit left and 1 hearthguard unit left against the 5 full strength Revenant Units. So we called the game.

My opponents initial strategy and confrontations were uncoordinated and left him seriously vulnerable for the remainder of the battle.  The revenant units have to be completely removed or the models can be replaced and the units can get back to full strength. So the living must really concentrate on one or two revenant units per turn with multiple/melees a turn. Otherwise the revenants will absorb wounds too easily if they are not quickly wiped out. We both wished my opponent took Jomsvikings instead of vikings, because he was too unfamiliar with the board. 

I received the revenant ruleset for free from Gripping Beast because I asked after years of the limited Revenant Box Set not selling out if they were ready to sell the PDF rules. They told me I could have the rules and I was free to Disperse the PDF. So to my few followers that see this, comment below and lets figure out a way I can email you all the Revenant PDF!

Blood Eagle

PLayed a trial run of Blood Eagle. I tried to create very different army compositions so the game would not simply be a 6v6 charge into somebody lack of tactics kind of game game.  The Viking faction Contained Raganar Lothbrok, Rollo Lothbrok, Torsten the Archer, Sean the irish bastard dual wielding an axe and sword, and one standard viking warrior, and one viking veteran. The "British Faction" Composed of Uhtred, a noble/prince, 3 crappy spearmen, and 3 crappy archers.  The British were really no match for the Heros of the Viking faction. The spearmen and archers were utterly useless.  The spearmen needed a higher fight value, and the archers needed better shooting statistics.  The scenario we played entailed a monastery with 6 monks within, and a Saintly Icon/banner within. The Vikings and the British were both trying to secure the banner, while the vikings also were tasked with slaughtering some monks.  

View from the British Depployment

Birds Eye Battlefield

British Warband

Viking Warband

Sean the irish Bastard darted toward the monastery, as the British troops make their advance.

Night fell upon the battlefield

Sean began to ready his sword and axe for christian flesh

Lord Uhtred charged into the monastery to stop Sean, and was followed by a viking veteran, followed by a British spearmen. The British noble took on the viking warrior standing guard at the monastery door.  

The British Noble and two spearmen attempted to block the remaining vikings from entry, however, Ragnar and Rollo Lothbrok had other plans; The brother made short work of the British defenders. The archers watched in terror.  Rollo and Ragnar entered the monastery to surround Uhtred, and begin slaughtering the clerics.

Consistent Production

During The past month or so I've been very actively building and painting. It seems everything I've worked on was built or painted on a whim, so there is very little project cohesion during the past months formidable hobby work. 

This gem is a wargames factory greek head on a frostgrave barbarian body and frostgrave cultist arms; He was freshly washed in this picture.

My Stark Forces are beginning to take shape; these are Perry HYW french

Frostgrave Monsters. I coats them with matte varnish and it seems to have left a shine, I'm a little disappointed.

Cairn and a robber toy deer based.

Random workings in foam: a fireplace out of foamcore, and a furnace out of pink foam and a piece of a dollar store baby carriage

2 Gripping Beast Crusading Knights

Black Tree Designs Picts

A group of finished Starks with spacewolf shield transfers

Viking Hovel, Foam core front and back carved and the rest is popsicle sticks

Foamcore carved ruin road on cardboard base, and cork tile rocks

 Pink Foam creations, a book shelf of popsicle, and cairns from cardboard and fake rocks

Book Case, scrolls are index card, and books are cardstock glued around small bits of popsickle

The WIP columns, the bottoms are just wood rectangles glued on top of each other. Wargames factory Orcs in front. Shame the company is done.

Pink Foam arch

The cairns again

Wargames factory Orcs.