As usual there was a large variety of games played the the Monday Knights during July. The highlight was our Battletech tournament. Ten competitors gathered on Saturday 22nd of July for the Monday Knights annual Battletech Auction Tournament. Each participant was given 100,000,000 C-Bills to bid on a mix of 4th Succession Wars era Mechs. … Read more
Bezerkers are meant to be crazy and nothing says crazy like a half (or fully naked) north European with that look in their eye. Give them something sharp and point them in the general direction of shorter people, and well … it’s not really a surprise that they hit England like a Semi-Trailer and were … Read more
I have pulled the trigger and finished off my Saga Order of St John – Knights, with two units of Hearthguard (Knights) and command. As I write this I realise I am basing this whole force all wrong. I know I built this as a saga force, which with out thinking I used round bases … Read more
My SAGA Order of St John warband continues to grow with the some Fresh faces as Spearmen. These are still the Fireforged Games troops, that I also used on the Crossbowmen. I have been block painting the my Order of St John to speed up the production of units, but also so I don’t burn … Read more
My 2nd point for my SAGA warband is Order of St John Crossbowmen. I have used Fireforge Templar Infantry I have used 8 of the box as Crossbowmen. With 24 in the box I have two more units of 8 to paint up, one with Spears and one with hand weapons. That will give me … Read more
I have finally painted my Order of St John Mounted Warriors. I have only had these since 2015, these are the Fireforged Games Mounted Sergeants. Bases are old Galeforce 9 bases, and they’re going to be part of a Saga crusader warband. The real story here is not the Men-At-Arms; it is the horses. I … Read more
Again, these have been sitting around waiting for me to base with static grass, but now they’re done and there weren’t any shields. Yeah! Most of the colours are the same as for the Anglo/Viking Warriors. However, I made the following tweaks to the common elements Chainmail, Helmet & Axe Blade: Base: Oily Steel (VMC … Read more
My Saga (Viking Age) army is Anglo-Dane and their warriors . However, there is not a lot of difference between some of the figures for the different factions so I can also use these as Anglo-Saxon or Viking (and probably others too). I haven’t given them a consistent colour scheme as it doesn’t really fit … Read more
These have been sitting around for a while; I’ve got 8 of them, and only 4 are finished. I’d planned on putting up all of them in a single post, but I had just finished these when I heard that Saga version 2 was coming out and only the Dark Ages book was going to … Read more
It’s been a long while since I last posted; Christmas, a surprise house move and a couple of other life events have meant I haven’t posted for quite a while. However, I have been fairly productive, so I’ll be putting up a few posts in fairly quick succession as I clear some of the backlog … Read more
SAGA, a game set in the dark ages. Vikings raiding the world etc. what is there not to love. I have two very unfinished war bands for Saga, the Jomsvikings and Scot’s. I have only had them since the game came out, a very long time ago, of course what is embarrassing is that I have never played a game either. Well with the latest addition to the rules out, Crescent and Cross, moving the battle’s to the middle east, I finally find something to bring me back to painting knights.
Adepticon 2015 part 1, I finally have time to sit down and write about my experiences. I finally got to be a con attendee and just spend time walking around talking to people who allow us to experience events like this.
I did a lot over the four days of the con so this is going to be broken up in to two or three articles, there was way too much to do for me to fit it all in one article.
Another random project I’ve been working on. These were a Christmas present from my better half. These are 28mm Camel Cavalry for Gripping Beast’s Saga Crescent & Cross. Crescent & Cross takes Saga from the Dark Ages to the Crusades. Given my enjoyment of factions that have a certain self destructive capacity to them, who better than the Mutatawwi’a; the Mutatawwi’a have a mechanic where they can martyr their own figures to gain special abilities.
My progress with these has been pretty slow, but I did start with the biggest miniatures. Who doesn’t love camels?
