From KristoferD: Skirmish level completed (74 points)

Hello again fellow enjoyers of tiny painted things!

On this the 27th day of the challenge I'm happy to announce that I've completed the first milestone of my challenge target. That is to complete a playable force of Swedes for By Fire and Sword. With a fresh unit of reiters and two commanders (one shamelessly stolen from the upgrade set) I can now field enough miniatures for a skirmish level game.

First we have the Lieutenant Colonel (who gets promoted to colonel when the force scales up to task force level).

Technically the stand comes with another banner bearer on foot, but I swapped him out for the military advisor who was a stretch goal from the second edition Kickstarter. He most have spent most of his career fighting in the Northern Wars given that his piece of paper seems to be a map of snow. As a matter of fact, it looks a lot like my neighbourhood this week.

We then have another unit of Reiters which I've painted largely like the first unit.

Looking at the pictures I might have gone a little bit overboard on the highlighting on the hats. Maybe I'll go over that again later if it turns out to bother me, but probably not given that it is not as apparent when looking at them on the table instead of through a screen.

The Reiters and the Lieutenant Colonel complete the Skirmish set from Wargamer as mentioned. I first misunderstood the entry in the Armies I book as needing at least two commanders for a Swedish skirmish force. But the excellent Army Creator made me do a double take and realise that the second one is optional. Given that BFaS is an alternating activation game, having an additional commander (who constitutes an additional activation) is a very strong option. I also suspect that the glass cannon that is the Swedish in BFaS really need this. So I pushed ahead with the expansion box and added a major (or possibly another lieutenant colonel depending on how many points your willing to pay at task force level) to the weekly quota.

I also took the liberty of swapping the flags around so that the senior commander gets the biggest flag. It's only right given that he already has the biggest hat in the army to go with it.

Finally, let's do a group shot of the Skirmish force because I simply can't resist showing them off together.

And a tally for the minion. Thank you for your efforts Sander!

(12 + 3 + 3) * 4 = 72 points for the mounted 15mm miniatures
1 * 2 = 2 points for the single infantry man with the snowy map

Resulting in a total of 74 points.

Also, thank you for all the nice comments on my previous posts! They make me very happy. 

 

Crikey, another whopping entry of gorgeously painted 17th Century Die-Hards. I love how the sabbot bases make these figures multi-usable for different systems, if need arises, and give a very nice scenic feeling to them as well. 

Cheers Sander