Dwarves for Warhost

I've been looking around for a bit of inspiration to get my painting mojo back and I think I found it. I picked up the Warhost supplement for Baron's War. This is a fantasy supplement using the same mechanics which I find enjoyable. It will also allow me to use my extensive collection of orcs and elves. However I fancied putting together a Dwarf patrol using the Oathmark range. I picked up a few individual sprues and a couple of the metal blisters to make a start. The sprues are a mix of the light infantry, warriors and heavy infantry.

I have deliberately gone for a limited colour scheme to keep the patrol uniformed. I even tried to depict mountains on some of the shields. I even used some spear arms from the fireforge figures to add some spears to the light infantry instead of the two handed weapons.

The Patrol so far

Dwarf spears

Heavy infantry

Dwarf warriors

Dwarf rangers or scouts

Not a bad start with 20 figures completed this weekend. I have another 9 in various stages of painting. I now just need to read the rules and try and get a game in sometime.

The Lord, The Lady, The Lover and The Rogue

 

Just back from the Border Reiver show. The game seemed well received with plenty of visitors and lots of conversations being had. We were all set up for the show starting at 10am, we managed to get through nearly 2 games, though I only took photos of the first.

The Lady and her escort

Thom's magnificent Keep

The Lord emerges with part of his retinue

The Lover arrives

The Rogue emerges from the woods

Foot and mounted serjeants clash in the village

More outlaws start to engage the escort

The Lord's retinue rushing slowly to his Lady

Outlaws see off the mounted serjeants

The Lover's retinue move through the village

Outlaws ransack a building

And another one goes up in flames

More burning buildings

The escort meets up with troops from the Lord's retinue

The Lord and Lady united

The end

The smoke markers from Thom were superb for highlighting the burning buildings, those and his 3d printed keep were popular talking points.

I did mange to get around the show to pick up a small amount of loot.

Some second hand peasant spearman to expand the retinue. A Blacksmith and a dwarf warrior from Reaper Bones, some Franco Prussian War Landwher, enough for two small regiments. I also pick up some brushes for Mitch. Overall a good day

A few more Welshmen

So this weekend I managed to get some paint on the last of the prepped Welsh figures I have for the Barons war. I do have a few more figures left and even managed to get them prepped today and hopefully get some paint on them next week. These 5 figures are all from Footsore miniatures, a foot knight and 4 archers.

As I mentioned in the last post I had a pair of foxes from Warbases to finish off. I quickly got these done and then decided to make a den for them. A few stones from the garden, a bit of modelling putty and it was done. It didn't actually take very long to do and will look good hidden in the woods for the game at Border Reiver.

With just 2 weeks to Border Reiver, I am just about ready. Just need to sort some display bits and pieces out and we'll be ready to go.