Longmyre Holiday Sketchathon!

 Hi!

I'm off on my hols and have taken a small sketchbook with me to doodle out some ideas for my Longmyre campaign.

Now while adventurers do all the glamorous stuff like exploring dungeons and saving the day, the bog standard security for the region is being performed by the lowly Longmyre Militia commanded by Captain Stone Ward, a curmudgeonly old fart who drinks too much but can be relied on in a scrap.

I've based their appearance on the Frostgrave figures that I painted last year:

I'm planning on reworking them a bit to do NMM as I was never that happy with the metallics and their bases will be getting redone to match the style of the Orcs who they will be fighting. 

Before we headed down south, I did manage a quick game of Song of Blades and Heroes for a bit of a retro experience and it was pretty good fun and I may use it again in the future for simple skirmishes (with a few modifications to make combat more decisive!). The game saw the militia facing an equal number of Orcs but taking a pasting as my leader, Captain Ward failed to activate at a critical moment and got shot for his indecision which saw the rest of his company turn tail and flee.

The Barrens

Ward is made of sterner stuff though and still managed to drag himself off the battlefield and is recuperating in Longmyre but his militia have proved not up to the task of dealing with the Orcs who have ventured south from the snow covered endless plains that forms the northern border to Longmyre.

I've been mirroring events from the real world for the setting too as we had a storm earlier in January which has then wreaked havoc in Longmyre and unexpected visitors, travelling and a trade war are also going on in the game which has proved to be a rather fun way of developing the setting in an organic fashion.

The Caravan Route

Once I get back from my hols, I'm hoping to get some adventurers painted up to represent the Farpoint company as well as working on getting more of the Orcs painted and ready but the fact that everything seems to be combining together rather nicely has kept me very much more engaged than I was expecting and I'm compiling a bit of a journal to represent notable events that take place in Longmyre as the year goes on!

Hopefully I'll get more doodles done over my holidays and be able to showcase some actual games too but in the meantime, All the best!