Painting Flames of war, bolt action, and saga stuff

My wife had left for the cottage last weekend so I had time to paint a few miniatures. First job was to paint some additions for my British flames of war army for the BATTLEAXE campaign. Next I painted a wandering bard I got as prize for the last SAGA tournament. Finally I started painting the Bolt action miniatures I got as a Christmas gift about 10 months ago.

Not bad for a weekends work.

Painting a Viking Army for Saga Tournament and Campaign

So our Club Ottawa Miniature Gamers is doing a Saga Tournament on 6 November 2016 and is starting a Saga Campaign in January 2017. This gave me a reason to start painting my first Viking army.

Here is a picture of my entire force

Egil Skallagrimsson

Two hearthguard units

Berserkers

Two more units of hearthguards

Unit of warriors

Another unit of warriors

Third unit of warriors

Levies

Painting 8th Army "Desert Rats" Motor Company

I have finally painted the entire box set. Just in time for our BATTLEAXE desert campaign. I will not be able to use the Shermans, but everything else is good. Thanks again to Francis for buying the box.

Painting 8th Army "Desert Rats" Motor Company

There are four boxes in the 8th Army box set. The next box I tackled was the Lorried Motor Company. This is always a little hard because there are so many infantry to paint. In this set I had to paint 60 infantry figures and 9 vehicles.

Complete box set

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Painting British 8th Army Motor Company Flames of War

There are four boxes in the 8th Army box set. This set was given to me by Francis. I am trying to finish the entire box set by the time our Battle Axe campaign starts in October.

First one I tackled is the Royal Horse Artillery Battery.

This is a photo of the complete box Artillery Battery

This is a closeup of the 25 pounder gun



















A closeup of the staff table, Battery commander and the observer team

Painting Fire and Sword Podjazd Koronny Starter Box

Mike gave me, a while back, a Polish Skirmish Box to paint. I started then got distracted by Team Yankee, then the Trojan Saga Campaign. I finally got around to finishing my little army.

The game is on Wednesday. I think I have a flag that might be upside down. Hard to say because the writing is in both directions.

Trojan campaign first day game 2

For the second game I was matched with an equal renown warrior. Duncan had a slightly higher renown. I think he had 14. I had 12. We were both able to have two divine interventions.

The game starts with choosing the aggressor. Duncan won the roll. Next we see if the defender wants to "parle". We both had two hearth guards that were wounded from the last battle. No reason to "parle".

Next the aggressor rolls for the scenario. Duncan rolled for the Assault at Dawn. This is from the crescent and cross rule book. I had never played this. Basically we put counters on the field of battle vice our units. So we have no idea what we are attacking till we get 6 inches from the counter.

This was very different.

Duncan advanced in the woods and I advance just out of reach.

You can see two counters on the near left. One of my hearth guards and one warrior unit have been discovered. I was being really cautious as last game I almost lost my hero one turn 2.

The Second turn Duncan attacks with his large hearth guards. He uses his divine intervention to make an extra move with no fatigue, but I use my divine intervention to counter charge. My hearth guard does surprising well and kill many stands.

Duncan warrior allows him to make several moves without taking any fatigue. He decides to attack my hearth guards and makes them retreat. He becomes bold and attacks my warriors. Somehow my warriors had the hand of god guiding there strikes. They manage to strike down the hero.

The next turn I finish off another unit and Duncan's forces are on the retreat.this unit. The gods continued to smile at my warriors and I ended up killing all Duncan's units minus his levies. The game ended when I killed his last warriors. I finished with an additional 14 renown (3 minor victory, 4 for killing 4 units, 2 for winning against a higher renown, 1 for taking out opposing warlord, and 4 for loot.) for a total of 26. I am now in the category Opening Epic book.

We then rolled for casualties. I had two hearth guards that are too badly wounded to play next game.