Monday, 14 September 2026

Pillaging in the Dark Ages

With a couple of the club members picking up the Pillage rules, I decided to pickup the new starter set  and see what it was all about. I then remembered that I had some Vikings and Saxons from an old Shore raid game I did at the Border Reiver show about 20+ years ago. All they needed was some re-basing and a little touch up. 







They are a mix of Gripping Beast, Artizan, Foundry, and Blacktree. Not bad for being around 25 years old. I've got a few more unarmoured Saxons to re-base and the Vikings could do with a couple of archers. Now the starter set comes with a sprue each of Irish and Vikings. With already having plenty of Vikings I swapped these with Mitch for a sprue of Irish. I've added these to some figures I already had from Gripping Beast, including a couple of plastic figures. I have an order in for a sprue from Wargames Atlantic and some metal figures from Footsore to give me a few mounted figures and some armoured troops.



I've nearly enough painted for a 600 point starter force. Now I just need to see of blogger will update.

14 comments:

  1. Great mix of miniatures!
    And have your new post on my blog list :)

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    1. Cheers Michal, that's a relief. Only issue I have now is my own blogroll is not updating

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    1. Cheers Jonathan, more like resurrecting a very old project

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  3. Nice you had a good head start on this latest project Scotty!

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  4. Looking good already. Look forward to seeing the additions arrive.

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  5. Neil your update appeared on my blog list on Monday late afternoon, so whatever you have done worked!
    Always nice to get to use old figures.
    Neil

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    1. Cheers Neil, I used the feedburner that Jonathan from Palouse wargaming recommended. Seems to have worked

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  6. Neil, just read this , 4a.m. East US Daylight
    savings. Nice to see some one get the old figures for Pillage. I have smaller forces and so smaller games.
    I guess I will be busy figuring out where this feedburner thing will be and how to access. Glad to see some movement on the blogs.
    Looking forward to Pillage on your part!

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    1. I didn't want to waste the old figures. The feedburner was quite straight forward to set up

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  7. Neil, Always rather play than paint! Setting up the table...
    Nice job.

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