15mm Tree Army

I've added some spider and slug swarms and an arcane artefact to finish my tree army (coz they're so much easier to paint than the Elves). This one is unusual in Sword and Spear as none of the units can benefit from being stacked with leaders (Beasts and Large Beasts) and some (Swarms and Monsters) that don't care about leaders' command ranges. Therefore I decided to remove all Generals and Captains from the list, and give the Beasts steadfast to make up for it. This was actually cheaper, in any case. I have splashed out on magic users to mitigate this, and also get a decent amount of Summoning as I plan to summon all the swarms to the table.

So my 1500 pointer looks like this:

50 Trees: 17, 25 (1082) + (Wiz3+Wiz3+Wiz3+Wiz3= 400) = 1482

Name	Type	Disc	Str	Protection	Missile	Melee	Other	Points	Army Value
Great Tree	L Beasts	4	3	Arm	Steadfast	Pow/Imp	Und/Fear	78	4
Great Tree	L Beasts	4	3	Arm	Steadfast	Pow/Imp	Und/Fear	78	4
Great Tree	L Beasts	4	3	Arm	Steadfast	Pow/Imp	Und/Fear	78	4
Saplings	Beasts	4	3	Arm	Steadfast	-	-	54	3
Saplings	Beasts	4	3	Arm	Steadfast	-	-	54	3
Saplings	Beasts	4	3	Arm	Steadfast	-	-	54	3
Saplings	Beasts	4	3	Arm	Steadfast	-	-	54	3
Eagles	Beasts	3	3	-	Steadfast	-	Flight/Fast	92	3
Eagles	Beasts	3	3	-	Steadfast	-	Flight/Fast	92	3
Tree	Monster	4	2	Arm	-	Pow	Fear	66	2
Spiders	Swarm	3	3	Arm	-	-	Fear	72	2
Spiders	Swarm	3	3	Arm	-	-	Fear	72	2
Spiders	Swarm	3	3	Arm	-	-	Fear	72	2
Slugs	Swarm	4	3	-	-	-	Fear	42	2
Slugs	Swarm	4	3	-	-	-	Fear	42	2
Slugs	Swarm	4	3	-	-	-	Fear	42	2
Camp	Camp	4	3	-	-	-	-	0	3
Artefact	Stratagem							20
Summon	Stratagem							20
17								1082	50

I also did a base, well a tent, for my Elves.

15mm Elves and Trees 2

Painted some more Elves and Trees. They got pretty soundly beaten yesterday. I should have been reported to the RSPB for what I did with my Eagles. I think the Elf part of the army doesn't play well with the Tree bit, so I will be painting more Elves and making a high-discipline elite force from them, and then making a separate, random, low-powered, lots of magic, slug-and-shrub-summoning force from the Trees.

15mm Elves and Trees

I have started a new 15mm army for Sword and Spear Fantasy. Originally it was going to be a mixed Elves and Trees force, but I have enough figures that I have decided to turn them into two separate armies. I have based the Elf heavy infantry with a line of archers, giving them a Seaguard sort of feel, and taking advantage of the Restricted Bows rule in S&S. This makes the unit extremely expensive, so hopefully the tactic works for them.

I am fielding the Trees as mostly Beasts, Large Beasts, Monsters and Swarm, which means their general's leadership will be almost non-existent, but it feels like a decent theme. I think I will field a single general to stop them being out of command, and the rest of the leading will be done through magic gardeners. It might actually make more sense to class them as undead, but I already have an undead army.

The Elves are from Magister Militum. The larger trees are from Ral Partha The smaller ones from Pendraken (I green-stuffed the foliage), and the tree man base thing is an incense burner from ebay.

  

  

West Midlands Saga Tournament

Went to the West Midlands Saga tournament at Wyvern Wargamers. Looks like a nice little club in the middle of the countryside, and the tournament was very friendly and well run. I played four games and did very averagely. Here are a few pics that I had time to take (getting through 6 turns in an hour and three quarters can be a challenge).