Some Completed Picts

Here's some photos of the completed Pictish warriors. They are 28mm Blacktree figures. 

Shield Maidens Complete

I've had these figures completed for some time but never got around to basing them. So the basing queue kept getting larger. About a week ago I finally sat down and based about 75 minis all at once. Here they are finished and ready for SAGA. 

I seriously doubt that Viking shield maidens fought top less but I figure that if they can distract my opponent long enough to deliver the final crushing blow then they are doing their job well!  

Another Pictish Unit WIP

Finished up 19 Picts and just started another 9 plus a few dark age civies. 

I will post previously finished units soon. 

28mm Goats

Sat down this morning and knocked out a couple of stands of goats. Just cause!! lol 

They are Wargames Foundry goats. 

Drums Along the Rapids Con

Attended this convention in Perrysburg,Ohio this weekend. It is held at The Ft. Meigs museum, which is on the site of the reconstructed wooden fort on the Maumee River. I assisted John Patrick with a pirate skirmish game. It is a great convention as well as a fantastic site to host a convention. I took some photos of the day's activities which are posted below. 

That pretty much sums up how I felt after a long day Saturday!

Had a great time but since I ran two games and played in one I didn't get as much covered as I would have liked. Maybe next time I'll get pictures of all the games. 

Dragon Rampant

We dusted off our Lord of the Rings figures and a few other dark age figures to try the Dragon Rampant rules last night. Our first trial went well and had a blast!  We fielded an Orc warband vs. a barbarous horde from the north. We kept it basic and didn't get into magic or special abilities (which are pretty basic anyways). 

One aspect we loved was the activation phase. When it's your turn you really don't know if you'll get all your units to activate! This forces one to prioritize which units need to be concentrated on first.  I played on the Barbarian's side. As it turned out our entire left flank refused to do much for most of the game! And of course those were my units😁

The Orcish leaders plot to concentrate on our right flank. 

The orcs surge forward. Oh, yes they have a troll! 

The wild men from the North threaten the empty Orc right side. Unfortunately that's all they did!!

A unit of light infantry dwarves try to stabilize the center. 

A unit of heavy archers loose a volley into the oncoming Urik-Hais. 

An elite foot unit moves up in support of the archers. 

A unit of light mounted (wargs) moves into the woods on the Barbarian's left flank. 

The troll charged the elite foot unit. Heads will roll!

The foot unit took two strength points of damage while the troll only suffered one. 

On the Barbarian's turn the archers pincushion the troll with three more hits. 

Dragon Rampant uses strength points. Most units have either 6 or 12. The large troll has 12. 

The Barbarian's right starts to crumble from the combination of arrows from the wargs, the elite Orc unit (on top the hill now) and the Uruk-Hai in the center. 

In the few turns that passed (before this photo) one of the Uruk units and the troll broke and called it a day.  But the pressure is being felt as all the Barbarian's right side units are wearing down. 

The Uruk-Hai hit what is left of the elite foot. 

Meanwhile back on the left side.... Not much to report here. Do you folks need help over there?

The archers are well battered and therefore keep retiring backwards!

The wargs smell victory and rush out of the woods. 

The dwarves finally join the party against their sworn enemy. Not much happens though as they both take a few hits and fall back to regroup. 

With half the Barbarian's force gone the remaining units call it a day and swear to avenge the fallen on another day. 

Fast moving and dangerous. Wargs!

Orcish scouts celebrate their victory!!

Picts

Getting ready for my next Dux Britainiarum force. My son Ty wants to do a campaign using a Pictish army. He likes the Scots as well for SAGA so we'll use them for both.  These figures that I'm getting ready are made by Black Tree. 

More photos to follow.