From MartinC Some Picts What I Did (300 Points)

Back at work, spent today teaching 8 year olds geology which was fun but very, very noisy. They went out for play time and all came back with loads of stones from the grounds.

So my painting will slow down now to normal pace and will focus on 10mm and 15mm so this could be my last paint bomb for a while, unless Miles and Noel go mental.

I have a very large Pict army for KoW, one of my favourite sets of rules and these will pretty much finish off, obviously like my 28mm ACW i will continue to grow it with 2nd hand stuff but approx 300 figs is about enough.

These were picked (picted!) up from the Battlefront show and are a mix of Newland (not great figs but very cheap and good for bulking out) and 2nd hand Black Tree and Gripping Beast.

Spearmen, the mainstay of any Pict army - Pict shield designs are impossible and so when I painted these they came out like dazzle camouflage. Which is interesting

Naked berserkers. These are supposed to have spears but I ran out of spears so they have axes. Picts don't really have berserkers but KoW is very flexible. As they are Picts tey must be tatooed but I find this difficult at 28mm scale - I find difficult at human scale - so it's mainly simple shapes and swirls

Slingers - again supposed to have spears but ran out so slings from bits box

Javelin men - Picts advance under a hail of javelins and i have lots of these

Finally nobles, standard and cow horn blowers

Overall it is 56 28mm figures = 280 pts plus any super generous bonus for standard and hand painted shields. That will bust my target so lets have a new one of 3000pts

Right off to find very tiny things to paint

__________________________

Wowzers, great entry Martin! These picts, like their shields, look absolutely dazzling (ahem)! 300 28mm figures is an impressive sized collection no matter what the period or rules. I especially like that great mob of spearmen, thought I imagine keeping them all ranked up might be a bit of a challenge. I've still not yet tried Kings of War, but really want to. How big is a standard sized unit in the game? Do you use sabots for movement? Is there model removal or can you use roster sheets? Questions, questions.

  

Hmm, I can just imagine those well-dressed nobles berating the naked berserkers, 'Hey you loons get some clothes on, or hit the woad.'

Mic drop.

Great work Professor Cooke!

-Curt