Adventures on the Wargames Table

A while back I ordered a heap of bases from Warbases in order to get a little further along the way to being able to play Dux Bellorum. However, my inner gaming butterfly soon flitted elsewhere and they were consigned to a storage box. But ... now that I'm in the process of applying magentic basing I've been sorting out my Saxon forces and realised that I had more than a few Early Saxons (from the superb Musketeer range, sold by Gripping Beast) mixed in with my 9-11th century fellows. So, here they are on their as-yet-to-be-sanded-and-painted movement trays. That's 1 x Companions, 2 x Noble Warriors, 3 x Ordinary Warriors and 2 x Skirmishers, giving a total of 26pts! All I need to do is paint a couple more Gedriht and 5 javelin armed Geoguth and that's an army ready to go! OK, I may also go through them and replace a few of the larger shields with bucklers as that's how I see them being equipped in the 5-6th centuries. However, it's a slightly different ...

Just a quick post to say what a splendid bunch of people they are at Warbases ! Here's a picture (of a selection!) from a recent batch of bases I received for my Dux Bellorum gaming project. The two on the top right are regular 6x2 formation 20mm move trays, these are for my Shieldwall formations. The two on the top left are Skirmisher movement trays with five 20x20mm inserts. The others are Warrior movement trays with nine inserts for 20x20mm bases. The two latter types of tray were custom made for me. Warbases communication with customers is ace; polite and prompt. The prices are very reasonable and delivery is swift. Add to that a good product and you can see why I think they're a great outfit. Highly recommended!

Wow! These figures are sublime ... wonderful ... superb! King Arthur, his banner bearer and two packs of his knights. Ok, we all know that "King" Arthur never really existed and perhaps the source of his legend is really the combined exploits of several powerful warriors in 5th century Britain, but we also know that it would be jolly good fun to include the Big Man in our games. Can't wait to get some of these figures! :o)

Crumbs! It's been a bit slow on the gaming/painting front recently due to things like work, being poorly, etc. But here at last are my first ever Age of Arthur Late Romans. These are from Musketeer and are (IMHO) some of the nicest figures I've had the pleasure of painting. Shields are from LBMS naturally. These are my entry for the Heroic Group bonus round for the Painting Challenge ... and about time too as I'm rather slipping behind schedule! They will also form the command group for my Foot Companions in my Romano-British army for Dux Bellorum ... more on that subject in later posts. I painted them in a similar style to the Saxons/Vikings I've done before, i.e. block colours and dip/wash, but I added some highlights before applying the wash, however they've rather been lost. Depending upon how the unit looks when complete I may go back and add some extra highlights - but they'll do for now.