Friday 20 March 2020

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.



Monday 9 March 2020

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.







Tuesday 3 March 2020

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.




  
  



Sunday 1 March 2020

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).