Saga: Underearth 2

Did some more pirate themed stuff for my Underearth Saga faction. The pirate ogres and the dwarfs are from Macrocosm, and the octopus is from the local toy shop. Not really sure how to rationalise the octopus as a land creature, but it was an emergency last-minute addition to the warband (as a Behemoth).

I have changed the make-up of my warband quite a bit after getting beat last week. I have turned my melee warriors into levies, added the monster, and am thinking about dropping my sorceror for an extra unit of firearms.

I also made a couple of holes to use as the Underearth's Sacred Ground: Underground Network.

Saga: Masters of the Underearth

Have done eight points of Underearth for Saga AoM, with a pirate theme. I played against these a few weeks ago and decided I wanted my own Underearth faction, though they don't seem that easy to use, and don't really have a lot of brute force.

I had some GW and Black Scorpion dwarfs already painted, and found some more, then added some Ral Partha ones. I have done 3 points of 8 warriors with firearms, 2 lots of 8 normal warriors, 2 destruction teams, an Alchemist, and a Sorceror (and a warlord of course), a mobile war machine and a flying war machine. I plan on getting a couple of more pirate-y themed destruction teams (rather than the flame cannons).

I feel like this force has too much shooting and probably too many small units that I might have trouble activating, so I'm planning on getting 2 or 3 Creatures (the Underearth board has a bit of help for Creatures), and then dumping one of the firearms units, and the Alchemist, and maybe the tank, and seeing how that works.

Saga: Tartan Army 3

Have finished a bunch of Dane-axe tartan guys. These are 8 warriors and 4 hearthguard that will work for a Norse-Gael warband. I also did 4 Anglo-Dane hearthguard with a hint of tartan so I can use them with Norse-Gaels or Anglo-Danes. I've done a druid-y priest so I can use these in Age of Magic. I'm thinking by adding some giant spiders they should work for a Lords of the Wild warband.

Again, a lot of the tartan is pretty poor up-close, but a, it drives you mad, and b, once they're all together in a warband the overall effect should be fine.

 

Defend the Arboretum

Repaired a bunch of trees, and painted up some resin wwii style ruins. Not sure who makes them, but they're very nice, and chunkily usable. So having a load of trees handy, I decided to run that old standard scenario; Defend the Arboretum.

BritCon Saga

Played in the BHGS BritCon tournament. I was too busy having my arse handed to me by people who actually knew what they were doing, that I forgot to take photos except in a few of the games. So here are some pics of that. There were a load of very decent armies I didn't get pics of, unfortunately.