What's on the table?

Just a quick couple of thoughts about what's on the table at the moment.

I spent a couple of evenings, while watching Game of Thrones (AWESOME) on the ipad, cleaning, snipping tabs and basing and gluing shields on my next batch of spearmen for my Medieval Fantasy Warbands. I had enough old Bretonninans to cobble together 4 units of 6 of spear. One for the Kings Hunt Master Sir Vorgal Gullfold, and the rest for the service of the King.

So we will have, when complete, 5 Lords in the Kings service, plus the King. Each will have from 4-8 units of accompanying units of spear, bow, halberds, light horse, hvy horse, men at arms, hunters. I have about half fully complete. Including full retinues of 2 Lords, plus the other Lords themselves and the King. Also including,  Kings Champion (GW green knight), a couple of other characters, mounted mage, lady, and sorceress. Mostly have the fill in troops to finish.

These will be opposed by a joint skirmish force of Sylvan Elves and Sea Elves (GW Wood Elves and High Elves) and the Great Ravening Hordes from the North (old GW Chaos Marauders, Chaos Knights, and maybe some beastmen thrown in). And of course a campaign would be great. We'll see if we ever get there. First off, finish the Humans.

I have taken my GZG Hi-Mobility and Grav Sled forces off the table and placed them in their boxes. Lost the bug for now on painting armor, but they are ready to go when I am.

I have been staring at my old GW confrontation figs lined up on the table for a while. So they may be getting some love this holiday weekend.

Also picked through my 15mm Fantasy and got a nice selection of heroes, adventurers, and monsters for my 15mm dungeon project. Got about half the monsters on paint sticks ready to go. They should be getting love this wekend too. Skeletons, wights, orcs, minotaurs, ogres, spiders, cultists, goblins, giant lizards and vermin. Fun.

And as a great surprise, I got my box from Khurasan. The whole Post Apoc line, the Sepulvidan Resisatnce fighters for Post Apoc,  and some odds and ends characters for Blasters and Bulkheads. Which...

...We played at the Barons Castle last night with the rest of the Generals. Great fun was had by all. Its gonna be a fun set of rules. Needs some tweaking on some things. But overall a good time. 

An actuall gaming post.

Well, now that all that stylish blogger nonsense is out of the way, I did get a chance to finish my knights for Sir Percival, Icon Bearer of the King.

These pics are of the two current warbands I have done and the Kings cav unit.

I am a little torn about keeping these single skirmish mounted, cause they look really good on group bases. and could be used for Flower of Chivalry and Commands and Colors. What to do, what to do. the BAron recommends staying with singles, to skirmish/warband with, which was the original intent. But I sure would like to have these guys ready to fight my elves.

OK so I lied.

OK so I lied. I don't just have a few more mechs and tanks for Robofire!

I figured since I had a decent start, why stop there. Why not go full OCD on the stuff and put in two more orders from Troll and Toad for Tanks and Mechs from the clicky MechWarrrior line. Cripes! It never eds.

So The idea is that I can paint up two full armored forces and a couple of mercenary groups to play Iron Cow, Dirtside II, Strike Legion and Epic:Gold, (needing about 40-50 units a side) and then use them for Robofire! as well, since it really is small operations at 5-7 units a side.

I really like the armor and vehicles from the line, and since you can pick and choose the ones you like , even better. You can leave some of the more wonky ones alone.

So this project will be going on for a while this year.

Now I need to keep chugging on the Medievals, and a couple of post apoc gangs and maybe even start to paint that Chaos Marauder warband.

Gonna be a good year.

Pics of the medieval Infantry of Sir Percival

Here's some pics of Sir Percivals foot troops. A unit of Archers, Halberdiers and Men at Arms. Bases not finished, but , if I finish the cav this weekend (Sunday I hope) Then I will finish all the bases and do some glamour shots.

so here they are. First up, The Men at Arms:

And the Halberdiers:

And a few group shots with the archers in there too:

All in all, with the Cav, a nice little Warband. As I flesh out the Kingdom, I will add the King and his troops, And three or four more Lords, plus The Fey (Woodelves, beastmen and the like) and the Barbarians from across the sea (GW Chaos old and new/ but men only, no creatures). I smell a mini campaign coming on. I am planning on using the Brytenwalda or Song of Blades and Heroes for rules.

Men at Arms -Complete - No Pics

Men-at Arms are completed. Got all of the infantry completed for this retinue. I based with the resin sand last night as well. So paint and flock the bases and I am done. On to the unit of Knights. Pics tomorrow or after the weekend when the knights are hopefully complete.

These will be the personal retinue of Sir Percival Windlands, Lord of the Northern Midlands, Standard Bearer for the King. Tied to the King in his Quest for the Grail of Life and the Ring of Lordly Might.

Quick Post

Always fun to drive for 2 hours in a freak ice event when you have to deliver a proposal you have been working on for a week.

Had a great weekend. Dinner out Friday night with the family, a wrestling tournament saturday all day, watched football all night with the wife(awesome), and then wtached football and painted on sunday. a good day all around, topped off by my home made chicken and noodles.

anyway, got the unit of halberdiers completed as the armor wash was drying on the men at arms. I will follow up with pics, but I would like to strangle my bro-in-law for painting the lords heraldry the way he did.

See, I bought a unit of his painted Grail Knights. Older GW metals that he had painted just like the box. Beautiful. I am using those five knights as the lords for my individual retinues. So, there's a blue and red one, a red and black one, and of course the green and yellow one. I now have to match the heraldry of the green and yellow one for my retinue. Always nice to have a complicated shield design. Grrrr...

Its not that bad, but It would kill me on a big army. Looks good when done though.

Pics tomorrow. Hopefully, I will get the men at arms done tonight so I can work on Ponies the rest of the week and this weekend.

Medieval - Unit of Archers Complete

Well I finally got a couple of hours last night to paint, so I finished that first unit of archers for the green and gold retinue. I have a unit of Men at Arms to do (simple) and a unit of halberds (Lots of armor) so hopefully I'll be painting ponies this weekend.

Pic of the Medievals

Here's some WIPs pf the Bretonnians I mentioned from yesterday. Didn't get to the painting table last night, we were watching a movie as a family. But did get a chance to go through my bound copy of the 2nd Edition of Mutant Future from lulu. Awesome.

 So here's a really bad photo of the whole group on base and primered. All of the flesh and wash is done. Cav on the left infantry in front and on the right.

Metal bretonnian arcehrs. These will be blue and yellow(gold). Their mounted bowmen companions are behind them.

The ubiquitous Bretonnian arcehrs from the WHFB box set. The beginning of plastics in a modern sense for GW. I have a hundred or so of these guys. Can probably get more. They are nice and simple to paint.

 The mounted longbowmen, and behind them, the mounted knights from the WHFB box set. I have a ton of these guys too. these will be painted black and red. I will repaint the McDonalds standard bearer to be red and black.

Another unit of plastic knights. They will be green and yellow(gold).

And the rest of the infantry. a unit of men at arms (old foundry), and a halberdier unit on left (green and yellow(gold)), and a unit of halberds, spears and archers on the right (black and red).

Once done, I should have about 150 bretonnians painted, certainly enough for a nice scrum. Especially if you add a couple of wizards or druids and some Fey creatures as well. that reminds me, I need to get some beastmen.

It has passed..just barely

It always starts slowly, then builds to a fever pitch, and goes away only after 1000's of brush strokes and months of time. That's right, Nappy Fever!!!!

I am happy to announce that my recent bout with Nappy Fever has passed. Just barely. Jeesh. It was close, but the full distraction of the holidays tempered the fever quite a bit, so I was never really fully in its throes, although it felt like it for a couple of weeks.

And as the fever has passed, it still lurks out there ready to grasp my weakened constitution and wreak havoc with my system.

But in the mean time, MEDIEVALS!!!!!

As the fever passed, I got to put together some warbands for Song of Blades and Heroes. GW Bretonnnians to be exact. Mounted on 1" washers as all my warbands and skirmish units are.

So over the weekend, I built a bunch of small warbandy units from my Bretonnians, to add to what I already had done.

I have 6 units of 6 infantry (mixed spear, halberd, men at arms, archers) 2 units of 5 mtd knights, and 1 unit of mounted bows. Half will be painted in green and yellow livery, and the other in Red and Black. While the Mounted long bows will be blue and yellow, accompanied by a dozen foot bows.

Base painted the first green and yellow archer unit and they look just fine.

Hopefully will finish them and the Men at Arms (armored) tonight.

I would like to find a warband scale medieval ruleset that would accomodate about 30 figs a player, multiple player, about 5-10 figs per unit. But smaller skirmish scale of 1 to 1. Song of Blades can bog a little bit. I guess Pig Wars would work as would a modified GASLIGHT. Looking for something more though.