Some Painting

 

A bit of a dramatic painting!

Anyway, over the last 6 weeks, I managed to grind out some figures. Here are some photos.

Mounted Crossbowmen from Bremen for Saga. Figures are from the Perry Light Cavalry Box.

Some French Carabinier Skirmishers for GdA from ABFigures.

Some Moorish Crossbowmen for Saga from V&V Miniatures (1st of 12)

I have some Russian houses to paint next for CoC.

Warriors with Pavises

This is my second mercenary unit for the age of chivalry, a unit of Warriors with Pavises. Alternatively they could serve as part of a French Warband who can field warriors with pavises. These are Perry plastics, not sure from which box. I found enough right arms with weapons and left arms which I could use to attach a pavise. This was much easier than I thought it would be. I used a shield design for a Paris unit and printed watershed transfers. I will probably add one more pavise to the warrior with the horn.

Trying what to decide what to paint next as I still have quite a number of figures left. Tempted by 8 Genoa Crossbowmen or Mounted Crossbowmen, both mercenary units for the Age of Chivalry.

Saga Night-War of the Roses

This past Thursday, we had our monthly Saga Night at the Abyss. It was another good turn out with 12 players. Several new warbands appeared on the tables from the Age of Chivalry. Germans, Bretons, Scots, Flemish, English, Ecorcheurs, French and Venetians were represented. Myself and Rob, however,  played the War of the Roses factions, a first for our Saga Nights!

Yorkists (Rob)

Warlord

Mount Hearthguard

Foot Hearthguard

Warriors

Handgunners

Levy Bowmen(1.5)

Cannon

Lancastrians (John)

Warlord

Mounted Hearthguard

Foot Hearthguard

Warriors

Levy Bowmen (2)

We used the Chaos set up. Although I have played many games using this method, it always gives you a different game.

Scenario

Scenery-Uplands

Deployment-Pincer Attack

Game Length-Pitched Battle

Special Rule-Forced March

Victory Conditions-Target

Game Photos

Initial Setup

This ended up being a big mistake for me, with my WL and HG deployed together although I should say the scenario conditions forced me to split my warband in 2.

Other unit in my deployment.

Keep the bowmen in the forest

The Yorkist right flank.

The Yorkist left flank.

Well it seems that the Cousin's War will end up going on, as we had a draw with less than a 3 point margin of victory. It was quite a bloody battle with both of us losing most of our HG, the Yorkists had 2 left and I had just one lone mounted HG. The only reason that I was able to eke out a draw, as I was quite a bit behind going into turn 5, was to charge my WL into 12 levy, luckily for me this worked out but it could have gone either way. 

What I found interesting is that the Yorkists have a complex BB which is quite different then the English BB, while the Lancastrian BB is quite similar to it!

Medieval Warriors

 

Here are the last 3 units I have painted for Saga, Age of Chivalry. there are 2 units of warriors with bills and one of a unit with spears. They are mostly painted in English livery but they are varied enough so they can be used in any warband.

That will be it for a while. I think I did pretty well for about 10 weeks of painting with the following units:

• Crossbowmen Levy (1 unit of 12)
• Bowmen Warriors (3 units of 8)
• Pikemen Warriors (3 units of 8)
• Foot Knights Hearthguard (3 units of 4)
• Mounted Knights Haerthguard (1 unit of 4)
• Mounted Warlord
• Foot Warlord
• Mercenary Knight

79 figuresin all !

Swiss Pikemen

 

Next up, and I am almost there in describing my Age of Chivalry units, is some Warrior Pikemen. They are for my Swiss warband but certainly can act as foreign mercenaries for other countries. The Swiss Warband is unusual in that they do not have a Warlord. 

I have painted 3 units of 8 but will probably play them as units of 12. Banners represent the cantons of Berne and Uri. There are 4 metal figures mixed withe the Perry Plastics.

Just one more unit type to photograph and that will be it!

Levy Crossbowmen

 

This is the first unit I painted for Age of Chivalry. I still had not really learned how to assemble plastic figures and you can see this with some of the unnatural poses. I decided on a blue and white scheme but I also struggled with that as you can see. But once they came together, I believe they look ok. They were primarily painted for my Swiss Warband, and they are the only warband that are classed as Levy, in most cases they are classed as Warriors. I painted 13 figures as I wanted to add a banner man, and of course from the blue-white scheme they will be recognised as being from Zurich.

Saga Night- English vs Swiss

Last Thursday we had our monthly Saga Evening. This was quite well attended as usual with 6 games being played, 3 each from Bothe the Age of Vikings and the Age of Chivalry.

I again brought my Age of Chivalry English and took on Michel's Swiss warband. This was the first time I encountered the Swiss and I was quite curious as I also have a Swiss warband done and I was curious to see how they played.

We play the Clash of Warlords scenario from the main rulebook, this was a novel experience for me as well as I usually play the Chaos method from the Book of Battles.

English (5 Saga Dice)

Warlord

2 units of Foot Hearth Guard

1 unit of Foot Warriors

3 units of Warrior Bowmen

Swiss (6 Saga Dice)

Warlord

2 units Warrior Pikeman

2 Unit of Foot Warriors

2 Units of Levy Crossbowmen

This was a very carefully fought battle with both sides being slow to engage in combat but initially relying on shooting.

Initial Positions

The game flipped to the English left flank which slowed down moving into combat. I had to swing around my 8 man Hearthguard to take on the rapidly approaching Swiss Pikemen.

Finally some combat with the Swiss Pikemen taking on the English Heart Guard

Interesting game which ended up in a tie with the Swiss scoring 12 points and the English scoring 11. I believe I might try the Swiss in our next SAGA night.

Mounted Knights

Next Age of Chivalry units are the Mounted Hearthguard, as well as a Warlord. These are all Perry Plastics aside from one figure which is from their metal line.

Again these were a lot of fun to paint. I have started with a unit for the Yorkist faction in a War of the Roses game. The Warlord is based on one of the numerous Nevilles who fought for and against Edward IV. I have hand-painted the livery's on the other knights representing some of the minor aristocratic characters who supported the Yorkist faction.

This chap was given to me by Helge, one of the members of our club. As mentioned above it is a Perry Metal Character from the Agincourt range; Le Comte de Vendomme. He will be used as a French Warlord or more likely the Mercenary Knight for AoCh.

Foot Knights!

 

Next up to be photographed are the Foot Knights for my Age of Chivalry Warbands. These again are all Perry Plastics and I actually found them quite easy to paint. That is aside from adding heraldry!

Three units of Hearthguard with Sir Richard Ratcliffe, a English Warlord.

English Knights

French Knights

Knights for all sides

Again a lot of fun to paint.