Just received an order I placed to Peter Pig last week. That was very fast delivery. I guess the Royal Mail issues from December are over now (lets hope).
I picked up their pack of dead AWI troops (5-59). There are three different poses and they include several figures with floppy hats that would be useful for militia dead. They look like they will be great fun to paint up. The next pack I picked up was the "Happy Workers" pack (5-54). Again very nicely cast figures. They will make for a nice civilian addition to AWI games. There is a little flash left on some figures but not enough to discourage me form buying more. These along with the Blue Moon F&IW minis should give a nice mix of civilians.
Also in the order was a set of sheep (21-35), some Oxen (21-33) and some dead horses (21-59). The dead horses seemed like a good idea to use for cavalry charges in SP as horses can be killed while the riders live to haul off their saddles and wander away. Now I remembered, I hate painting horses. The sheep look like well sheep. They will probably see more use for my Dark Ages games. Why not pigs instead? Ah well, I run a kosher farm. The Oxen are rougher casts than the others and the horns are separate pieces from the oxen themselves. I will reserve judgment on these until I paint some.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Saxon Comparison
I just received two packs of miniatures from Syr Hobb. They are two command packs from Outpost Wargame Services. The Infantry command pack is rather nice. It has a Saxon with a war dog, a drummer, two officer types looking focused, a shaman and a standard bearer.
The picture is not too clear but it gives some idea of what they look like. The shaman's pose is fun. Reminds me of the Cornwell "Arthur" books from his description of their gyrations prior to a battle.
The Cavalry command pack was disappointing in comparison to the infantry pack. There were 3 mounted figures. all the horses were in the same at rest pose and the riders were all the same figure. The only difference was if they held a spear or a standard. The standard is nice. It is a bulls skull with a banner looking item beneath it. I will definitely use the standard bearer but I am not too sure about the other two. In my opinion, the Splintered Light mounted Saxons are far superior.
As noted, I already have a decent collection of Saxons from Splintered Light Miniatures. I took one more bad picture to compare the two lines. The SLM standard bearer in the picture is at a disadvantage as I did not glue the skull to the standard yet. I also placed the shields from each of the manufacturers next to one another. The Splintered Light shields are much larger than the Outpost ones. Not sure which is more accurate but I like the look of the larger shield.
The Dark Age rules are really shaping up. We have a tentative title now: Grim Men & Sharp Swords. Much better than the nonsense I had earlier. The title was Gary's idea so he gets the credit there.
Up next will be revisiting Sharp Practice with Napoleonics. I wonder how the rules will work as written.... :)
The picture is not too clear but it gives some idea of what they look like. The shaman's pose is fun. Reminds me of the Cornwell "Arthur" books from his description of their gyrations prior to a battle.
The Cavalry command pack was disappointing in comparison to the infantry pack. There were 3 mounted figures. all the horses were in the same at rest pose and the riders were all the same figure. The only difference was if they held a spear or a standard. The standard is nice. It is a bulls skull with a banner looking item beneath it. I will definitely use the standard bearer but I am not too sure about the other two. In my opinion, the Splintered Light mounted Saxons are far superior.
As noted, I already have a decent collection of Saxons from Splintered Light Miniatures. I took one more bad picture to compare the two lines. The SLM standard bearer in the picture is at a disadvantage as I did not glue the skull to the standard yet. I also placed the shields from each of the manufacturers next to one another. The Splintered Light shields are much larger than the Outpost ones. Not sure which is more accurate but I like the look of the larger shield.
The Dark Age rules are really shaping up. We have a tentative title now: Grim Men & Sharp Swords. Much better than the nonsense I had earlier. The title was Gary's idea so he gets the credit there.
Up next will be revisiting Sharp Practice with
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Productive Weekend
By the grace of my Mother-in-law, my wife and I had a wonderful date weekend. Started with a nice dinner at Chops. Saturday ended with my wife reading and told me to go paint. Who could ask for anything better.
So taking advantage of this I set to work in setting my ACW Yankees to rights. I managed to get more than 32 infantry done and dipped in Army Painter strong tone. I also have the next 32 set to go on painting sticks. I also began to base my 16 Union Zouaves. Those are still my favorite miniatures that I have in my army.
My Confederate Infantry is just about complete. I have a 64 man Infantry company with big men (a captain, two lieutenants and two sergeants). I have to finish basing 16 infantry figures and they are done.
I did get to do a little (very little) painting done on my Early Saxon army. Thus far I have managed to paint a whopping 10 unarmored spear men. Only 35 more of them to go.
I think I have an excellent chance of actually completing my ACW skirmish armies and my Dark Age skirmish armies this year! Possibly by summer.
So taking advantage of this I set to work in setting my ACW Yankees to rights. I managed to get more than 32 infantry done and dipped in Army Painter strong tone. I also have the next 32 set to go on painting sticks. I also began to base my 16 Union Zouaves. Those are still my favorite miniatures that I have in my army.
My Confederate Infantry is just about complete. I have a 64 man Infantry company with big men (a captain, two lieutenants and two sergeants). I have to finish basing 16 infantry figures and they are done.
I did get to do a little (very little) painting done on my Early Saxon army. Thus far I have managed to paint a whopping 10 unarmored spear men. Only 35 more of them to go.
I think I have an excellent chance of actually completing my ACW skirmish armies and my Dark Age skirmish armies this year! Possibly by summer.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Saxons and TSS
Well today proved to be fairly productive. I managed to finish several more scenarios for my TSS Supplement. Only three more to go. Those should be wrapped up in fairly short order. I can see the light at the end of that tunnel finally. I have removed several scenarios that I just could not find sufficient data for to even guess at the orders of battle for.
In addition to the writing, I managed to get a bit of painting done. Five more figures for my Early Saxon army. This brings my army to a whopping 15 painted figures! I was painting figures from the Splintered Light personality pack. Specifically two Saxon shaman/wizards, a Saxon hero (big bare chested brute wielding an axe with two hands) and two Saxons in armor. One sports a sword and a Sutton Hoo looking helmet and the other carrying a two handed axe. Both in Chain mail armor.
I have been thinking of how I would organize an Early Saxon army for skirmish scenarios. I am working on a set of rules that are based off of Sharp Practice with several others from the TooFatLardies list. My thought so far is something like this.
Early Saxon Raiding party
Three groups of unarmored spearmen (24 figures).
One group of armored spearmen (8 figures).
One group of skirmishers (6 figures).
Command Element (party commander(Big Man), standard, trumpeter, shaman)
One additional Big Man and One Hero.
In addition, I am tinkering with making a longship for these Saxons to raid with.
Their opposition will be some Post-Romano British. The British will be a similar sized force except its composition will be different.
Post Romano-British
Two groups of Unarmored Spearment (16 figures)
One group of armed townsfolk (12 figures)
One group of Armored spearmen (8 figures)
One group of skirmishers (6 figures)
Command element (party Commander (big Man, standard, trumpeter, priest)
One additional Big Man and one hero.
I have just purchased the armed townsfolk from Khurasan miniatures. They have some figures carrying pitchforks which suits the bill quite nicely.
I have really enjoyed painting the Splintered Light Saxons.
In addition to the writing, I managed to get a bit of painting done. Five more figures for my Early Saxon army. This brings my army to a whopping 15 painted figures! I was painting figures from the Splintered Light personality pack. Specifically two Saxon shaman/wizards, a Saxon hero (big bare chested brute wielding an axe with two hands) and two Saxons in armor. One sports a sword and a Sutton Hoo looking helmet and the other carrying a two handed axe. Both in Chain mail armor.
I have been thinking of how I would organize an Early Saxon army for skirmish scenarios. I am working on a set of rules that are based off of Sharp Practice with several others from the TooFatLardies list. My thought so far is something like this.
Early Saxon Raiding party
Three groups of unarmored spearmen (24 figures).
One group of armored spearmen (8 figures).
One group of skirmishers (6 figures).
Command Element (party commander(Big Man), standard, trumpeter, shaman)
One additional Big Man and One Hero.
In addition, I am tinkering with making a longship for these Saxons to raid with.
Their opposition will be some Post-Romano British. The British will be a similar sized force except its composition will be different.
Post Romano-British
Two groups of Unarmored Spearment (16 figures)
One group of armed townsfolk (12 figures)
One group of Armored spearmen (8 figures)
One group of skirmishers (6 figures)
Command element (party Commander (big Man, standard, trumpeter, priest)
One additional Big Man and one hero.
I have just purchased the armed townsfolk from Khurasan miniatures. They have some figures carrying pitchforks which suits the bill quite nicely.
I have really enjoyed painting the Splintered Light Saxons.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
More Progress
I picked up some more Splintered Light Miniatures this week. I should have enough miniatures now for a good skirmish game for the Dark Ages now. I also picked up one of the buildings from Splintered Light.
I spent a good bit of Friday night painting the building and basing the few miniatures I finished painting. While the progress was slow it was indeed progress.
I spent a good bit of Friday night painting the building and basing the few miniatures I finished painting. While the progress was slow it was indeed progress.
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