Midgard: Picts v Angles

 James, Matt and Martin came over after an enforced pause in gaming activity to get me back into the swing of things with a Midgard game. I've been toying with the idea of trying to put together a Goblet Sized Campaign for Picts and Northumbrians with a Nechtansmere theme. Mainly because I have both armies needed for such a thing.

So this was by way of a warm up. James suggested the  "Enemy All round Us" scenario as being vaguely Nechtansmere like, so that's what we played.

Matt and I took control of the ambushing Picts, James and Martin were the invading Angles.

An unsuspecting King Ecgfrith leads his men in pursuit of fleeing Picts.

Who suddenly and unexpectedly turn to face their pursuers

This surely will be easy meat for the Saxons

Hang on, what's that on the flank?

A trap! Face about, men!

The Saxon battle lines are drawn up

Bold Pict skirmishers are soon hunted down

Easy victims for the Saxon warriors

But the aggressive Pictish warriors swarm upon Ecgfrith and his men

The centre of the field is chaos as Northumbrians chop down lightly clad Picts, but more spring up to replace them

On the flank the Pict king urges his men to close the range

The Saxon horse responds to the threat

Howling Pict warriors rush to defend their King

The cavalry are pushed back

Ecgfrith is in the thick of the fighting

The fighting on the flank is fierce and bloody

No quarter given by either side

Dead litter the field and it seems the Northumbrians have the upper hand.

However the Pictish king pushes on and the Northumbrian flank begins to buckle.

A lone Anglian horseman bravely hold back the King.

Ecgfrith is cut down by vengeful Picts.

Shields are splintered and corpses cover the field.

With the death of the last of the invading horsemen, the Northumbrian goblet is empty of reputation and the PIcts can claim the win!

A splendid game. At one point, with lightly armoured Picts falling like flies it felt only a matter of time before Ecgfrith would win the day.

However Matt managed to steal one of the loot counters away from the invaders and the death of Ecgfrith was a blow from which the Angles could not recover,

A few bonus phone pictures.

Really good to get the toys back out on the table and see the gang again. The game was great but really secondary to the social side of things.

Warmaster Ghouls

These were gifted to me by chum Scrivs as he apparently had more than enough for his Midgard force.

I gave them a bit of a purple wash as an homage to Stephen's Swolen Purple Ghoulies who were my doom in many a WFB game.

Got another unit on the go, then I may have to tackle some Skellies

Many Rivers to Cross

I've had this river set for years. I painted some parts of it a few years ago but made some time to finish off the unfinished bits

They're a bit basic and the newly painted ones don't quite match the ones I painted a few years ago, but I'm happy to have them finished.

Korean Buntai for Ronin

OK, thirteen years is a perfectly normal amount of time to take to paint up a skirmish force of ten figures, right?

So way back in 2013 when Ronin came out I got excited and bought the rules. I also bought some Perry Miniatures Koreans. In fact getting Tonin was the excuse to buy them as I'd wanted them since they first came out.

Anyway in that first flush of excitement I painted three of them - you can find the post here

Things happened,mistakes were made and here we are

A finished Buntai of Perry Miniatures Koreans for games of Ronin:

And here are the individual models

A leader, waving his sword in a very leadery fashion

Three of the super cool swordsmen with the demon shields that are surely the main reason anyone wants a Korean army

Three spearmen, two of them with the funky tridents - another reason to collect Koreans

Three archers

The eagle-eyed amongst you will notice that the spearmen are *not* the same models from October 2013 - I have in fact painted three more, so I *could field six if I wanted to, exciting stuff.

I also have the other half of the archers and the swordsmen packs still in their Perry jewellery boxes as well as the other five models from the command pack.

So I guess we should expect to see those sometime around 2039.

Anyway, General B. has Samurai, so expect some Far Eastern warfare, ahem,  Imjin-ently.