Hi All
Second post and a second squirrel as I switch to "Dark Ages" as a genre. Here I have Basic Impetus Anglo Danes and Norman armies, originally used in Saga so have the sabot basing style.
First up are a couple of Gripping Beast Housecarls that got missed out of the original army painting.
Recently been reading about the Battle of Brunanburh - 937 which features on one side King Athelstan and a classic Anglo-Saxon army. From the Basic Impetus army list creating this army effectively means means the Anglo Danes lose the double handed axe housecarls and there are a lot more General Fyrd infantry. Or very temptingly instead of four General Fyrd units you can opt for a single veteran "rock hard" mercenary unit of Vikings. Effectively a choice of one unit fighting value 6 or four units with fighting value of 3.
What would you choose?
I went for the Vikings especially as I was able to get some free second hand figures off my brother!
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| Not sure of figure makers - Foundry? Think 4th from left is Gripping Beast |
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| Slight conversions to make chainmail instead of quilted armour on some |
Decided to base the Vikings rather than sabot, especially as these were bizarrely already mounted on a two pence piece. Five figures fitted nicely on an Impetus base - the sabot figures are only four to a base but as a veteran unit think five are better. As a bonus this unit also has its own buried Viking hoard of 2p pence pieces.
In total 7 figures so 35 points.
Cheers Jez
Nice work on these. I am ploughing through Cornwell's 10th Century fiction and am looking forwards to his Brunanburh. It is one of those historic important battles about which very little is known!
Barks
Love those shields! As I’m in the middle of Neil Price’s “Children of Ash and Elm” I’m really into Vikings at present - maybe for my next project 😉
ReplyDeleteNuce work Jez, they are indeed from the old Foundry range.
ReplyDeleteI have some of those vikings and they come from an era of transition when the first slotta bases were oval and made of metal [do you remember those?] and were then replaced with the familiar plastic square slotta bases. Mine are therefore Citadel/GW. They may later have gone to Foundry and perhaps gained an ordinary integral base.
ReplyDeleteAs someone whose Vikings go back to Minifigs [including some with telegraph pole spears], Hinchcliffe and Asgard, I tend to think of the above as my "new" vikings! Though to be fair I do have a few that are newer still.
Now that does make me sound old though I'm not actually from the Dark Ages.
Stephen
p.s. there was a time when the world of Warhammer included Viking types.
ReplyDeleteStephen
Nice Vikings, Jez! :)
ReplyDeleteNice work on these Vikings
ReplyDeleteGreat looking viking types!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Great looking Danes, love the shields.
ReplyDeleteHi Jez:
ReplyDeleteSplendid bellicose chaps, full of aggression. In an age when any doofus like me can cheat and buy shield transfers, you’ve painted your shields freehand. Respect!
Cheers, MikeP
I love the shields!
ReplyDeleteVery well done. Excellent work on the shields
ReplyDeleteGood looking minis and lovely shields.
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