Deep Ones

 

Next up are some figures from Bob Murch, they were a lot of fun to paint. They are from his Cthulhu kickstarter. Terrific Figures!

Primed white, painted with Xpress paint Orc Skin, wash with GW Antonian Camoshade. Dry brushed with VMC Bright Yellow. Eyes teeth and details picked out with various Acrylic paints. Pretty simple but I am quite happy with the result.

Movement Trays for Midgard

 

The latest offering from the TFL stable of wargaming rulesets is Midgard. The ruleset covers gaming from the Classical Period to the Late Middle Ages in both a historical and fantasy setting. It looks like an interesting game and I believe it to be quite accessible. If you have the appropriate historical or fantasy figures you are all set to go aside from needing the rulebook and some playing aids. But you will need some movement trays, in most cases 120x60mm in dimension. 

The ruleset appears to be extremely well supported by both the author on a dedicated Website as well as a Facebook group. There is also a section for Midgard on the TFL Forum. I find generally that TFL rules are well put together and since I had the figures I thought I would have a good look. 

There is quite a lot about the movement trays on the above sites with actually instructions for a magnetic type on the author's web site. Since I have a FDM printer I thought I would design some trays in TinkerCad and print them.

I have a fairly large Dark Ages collection of figures as well as figures for the Crusades so I was all set with at least 2 historical forces. Additionally I have a large collection of LoTR figures which would fit into the Fantasy setting for Midgard. 

I do have some painted Sengoku Period figures sitting about doing nothing as well as several unpainted figures and although these are just outside of the Late Middle Ages Period I felt they would work for Midgard. There are no lists for this period in the book but there is already many fan made lists for Midgard in existence and I understand that the Warring States battles are on the radar of several players so I thought I would start there. It will certainly encourage me to paint some more Samurai!

The foot figures were bought painted 15 years ago, I painted the mounted figures.

Midgard forces require 3 heroes, here is my first.

A unit of Warriors, they will be classed as Heavy Infantry

Heavy Riders

Another unit of Heavy Infantry

Tray Design

I have made 4 basic designs; one for Warriors, one for Skirmishers as well as one for Cavalry. I also have made a tray for the Japanese Heroes as they are all associated with standard bearers. The tray above accommodates 7 warriors as well as a 12mm wound die. My Japanese figures are on metal bases so I put a recess for a 5x1mm magnet in each. As you can see they are slightly above the recess for the 25mm base. I did this as the metal bases are quite thin and I wanted them to be level with surface of the tray. I can use these same trays though as slots for standard 25mm bases without the magnet for non-metal bases. You can use the dice recess or not, if you dod not want to use it then it can be covered with terrain material. I do appreciate that there are only 7 figures on the base but the number of figures in this rule set is not important and 7 will give the same mass effect as 8. The Cavalry trays will be 3 or 4 figures, while the skirmishers will have 4 figures.

Time to start printing some more trays and prime some more figures.

Some New Figures for Alternate History Games

The Dreams in the Witch House

Next up are some figures to add to the Alternate History games I play. I have really tried to limit this but I have had a lot of fun with these games and they are quite popular in Montreal. Aside from the games represented below, I also play Pulp Alley but we will see some figures for this game in my next post.

Two Hired Guns for Dracula's America. These are both North Star figures and they painted up quite nicely. Unfortunately I can not use them in my present posse but they were there so I painted them. On the left is a Skinwalker Archanist and on the right is a Carpathian Guard.

I can us this figure now for my Rashaar Gang in Carnevale. The Karcharos is a Hero in this gang. I have left it with gloss varnish as he is a water creature. 

Finally up are two figures from my Devil in the Wilderness game, I have not had much success in introducing this game in Montreal. It was locally developed and I think it is quite interesting and a lot of fun, but there are some gaps in the rules that require further development. I am told this will happen but I am not so sure.  More about the game here. I am a Lovecraft fan so I could not resist these 2 figures from Dreams in the Witch House: Keziah Mason and her familiar Brown Jenkin.

Some New Figures for What a Cowboy

 

Over the last couple of weeks I have added to my What a Cowboy collection by adding some mounted figures, as well as some Sioux, a famous gunslinger and some scatter terrain. The figures are all from 3D Breed and resin printed. The terrain is FDM printed. 

I am happy enough with all the figures but I found the 3 Sioux figures some what difficult to paint but they will do for gaming. Thanks to PY who did some of the figures and Graham who gave me the terrain pieces.

SAGA Grand Melee

 

This past Saturday, I attended the SAGA Grand Melee which was put together by David. He has done a great job in the past year with a monthly SAGA Nights. I played 3 games and although I won none of them, they were all close and I had an enormous amount of fun. I played my Seljuks in each game. We all played the same 3 scenarios and opponents were generated by scores in the previous games. Scores were determined by Massacre Points but this was adjusted by Success in Capturing Objectives.

Seljuks (7 SAGA Dice)

Warlord

2 units of Mounted Warriors with Composite Bows

3 units of Foot Warriors

1 unit of Levy Bowmen

The 24 foot warriors were in 2 units of 10 and 1 unit of 4. 

Game 1-Desecration

This was against Luis's Jomsvikings. 

Result 16-10 Massacre Points in favour of the Jomsvikings, 12 to 8 Tournament Points in favour of Luis

Game 2-Capture

This was against George's Mutatawwi'ia

Result 21-17 Massacre Points in favour of the Seljuks, 12 to 8 Tournament Points in favour of George, winning because he had 2 captures with none by myself.

Game 3-Clash of Warbands

This was against Benoit's Welch

Result 23-14 Massacre Points in favour of the Welch, 13 to 7 Tournament Points in favour of Benoit

Summary

The winner of the Tournament was Karl (Franks) with 52 Points, Francois (Eastern Princes) came 2nd with 46 Points and Robbie (Irish) came 3rd with 45 Points. I got 23 Points coming in 12th out of 16.

the full results and lots of photos can be seen on the Saga Montreal FB.

Well my troops did not do that well, and I was clearly focused on killing my opponents rather than trying to get the objectives. I found the Capture Scenario, a little strange although the Desecration Scenario interesting. Oddly enough, the Clash of Warbands Scenario, without any objectives was my worst played.

But as noted above it was a ton of fun, and many thanks for David for putting it together.

Well that will be my last outing for 2024, a few less games than 2023 but a great year overall.