This week I painted a unit of 12 pikes and a frame gun, all from Warlord Games. For the basing, I've decided to go with the 3-2-1 basing recommended by Michael Leck and Dan Mersey in the rules for Pikeman's Lament. I must say, I like this arrangement of basing a lot. It's quite flexible, and gives units a nice slightly ragged appearance. I had my usual existential crisis about what colour hodden grey should be, settling for the main part on a sort of medium sea grey with a bit of brown added in.
I was quite keen to explore Glorantha this week as well, and remembered I had a set of runestones from Fenris Games that I bought about 10 years ago. These are lovely accurate models of runestones from Sweden (from memory), and will be used for objective markers or just interesting table scatter in games like SAGA.
15 foot figures should give me 75 points, with another 10 for the frame gun. I don't really know how to score the runestones, except that they all fit in a 6 inch cube, so call it 20 points? Add a bonus 20 points for Glorantha, and I think this entry is worth 125 points. The Inspektor visiting from Weimar Berlin is just included for scale.
I really like that grey-blue tone you've achieved with your pikemen. I've never been quite game to adopt the 3-2-1 basing, even though I can see both the gaming practicalities and the aesthetic appeal. I do wonder how effective frame guns and early artillery was, but I'm sure there's a psychological shock. And the painted patterns really help the runestones pop.
Barks
Good looking runestones, the colors make wonders on them. Usually they are seen as grey (like they are now) and not coloured as they used to be.
ReplyDeleteGood looking Covenanters, the runestones are fantastic!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Absolutely wonderful runestones -- great models and excellently painted
ReplyDeleteLove the pikemen, you can't have too many Covenanters!
ReplyDeleteThose patterns on the runestones look great
ReplyDeleteNice runestones and a good start to your ECW Covenanters force! :)
ReplyDeleteGreat grey on those from Scots. Really love the runestones, will have to get some of those.
ReplyDeleteFantastic work Alan, and I love the basing scheme. That actually has me now considering Pikeman's Lament...
ReplyDeleteThose runestones are fabulous.
Love the runestones , patterns and colours are super!
ReplyDeleteHi Alan:
ReplyDeleteThe pikemen are great (pike on pike requires the bravest of the brave in battle, I think, who wants to end up on a kebab?) and the hodden gray is fine, I'm sure Robbie Burns would approve. Love the runestones, your shot with the inspector has a Nordic Noir quality to it.
Cheers, MikeP
Cracking work Alan! The runestones turned out great!
ReplyDeleteFantastic miniatures! The rune stones are my favorites.
ReplyDeleteYour runestones are fantastic!
ReplyDeleteVery well done on the pile but as others here I just love those runestones
ReplyDeleteNice work, the pike block looks awesome.
ReplyDeleteThose rune stones are pretty special and nice work on the covenanters
ReplyDeleteVery nice mate - still not sure how we both ended up with a Covenanter army though! and yes, you have me with the 3-2-1 basing also...
ReplyDeleteGreat looking Scots and love the rune stones.
ReplyDeleteGreat work Alan, the 3-2-1 basing came out really well
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