As I've been sorting through my unpainted gubbins over the last few days, I found my Horned Folk warband that I started a couple of years back and have been humming and haahing about what to do with it.
A Horde of Horned Folk
I like the round bases but it doesn't really suit itself to massed fantasy games but I did begin wondering if I could use it for skirmishes using Song of Blades or warband level battles using Dragon Rampant.
Small Wartower
I've got an eclectic mix of Heavy infantry and warbeasts at the moment so need to diversify it a bit as well as working on my Grey Elf host to oppose it but as I have all the miniatures, I figure it would fit in well with my aim to start clearing through my lead (and plastic) pile.
Minotaur Legion
I must admit that I am rather relishing getting on with some small scale stuff after the big guy I am working on at present is finished and I think I could churn out a second Beastkin regiment of four stands in next to no time and with just one Wartower to finish painting, I think that my weekend is set!
Raiders from the Ancient Labyrinths of Aeroth
I figure I can play out a decent game of the likes I've mentioned on the small board I have and just need to put together some more suitable scenics such as ancient forest groves and an entryway into their Barrow City...
Wartower Rampage!
Something else I've been ruminating on is to add a larger wartower or two featuring some arcane ancient tech to give the Horned Folk a nice centrepiece to their army but we shall have to see if I have anything suitable in my bits box that can be converted to use!
A Horned Folk column on the march
I'm also keen to get back to work on the Grey Elves I had started but I must be honest that cleaning and converting Irregular Miniatures is a bit of a chore as I have to remove their small and bendy halberds and replace them with wire spears while the chariots need converting too and lets not even mention the cavalry...
Grey Elves
I have discovered that I still have a 6mm Orc, bits and pieces of a Lizardman and Goblin armies from Irregular but I'm really not liking their strip of figures approach. It's fine for Warmaster type of games but not really ideal for my approach but I may be able to put together some useful bits and pieces from them from time to time without getting completely disheartened with the effort.
In other news, the big guy I've spent most of the last week painting is getting there with only one weapon and his legs to detail. Sadly I don't have a base big enough for him but I don't see that being too much of a problem at the moment and I'll post some pics this weekend of him once he's finally completed!
In the meantime, All the best!
oh nice!!
ReplyDeletethose models look really cool
it's a nice project to do a 6mm army.
Love these minis - I reckon you could easily use these with 'skirmish' rules, you'd just need to decide on a basic profile and what that equalled in terms of models.
ReplyDeleteSo if, for example, you used LotR SBG (I really like that ruleset) then you could have 5 normal beastmen (a base) be represented by some orc profile (maybe Uruk-Hai scouts) and then adjust other bases based on how strong they are relative to the the 5 Beastmen. I
've done this a few times, generally it's the monsters that need downgrading a bit (a troll isn't quite as powerful cumulatively vs. a group, for example).
Or you could take the same approach but to the very excellent Rogue Planet rules, for some extreme fantasy fighting!