No more Ceorls, these are the last ones! These make up the last of the thirty two that I need. I divide them down into two units of ten and a third unit with twelve models. Combined with my Warlords dice and the dice from a unit of Thegns I get the maximum of six so I can effectively command he army and get to use my abilities to a maximum effect. Of course over the course of a battle I will be whittled down but as long as I get to use the abilities on the offensive I should be ahead in attrition.I am making some decent progress on my Jömsvikings and I will start showing them off on Monday. I am trying to paint them to a higher standard as they came mostly unpainted. The problem with the Anglo-saxons is that they were pretty much already painted so I had to match my older and not quite as good techniques which I think I managed despite no longet having 90% of the colours needed.
I know exactly how you feel with the Saxons. I started a warband last year and got bored with painting them pretty quickly. Mine were worse in some ways in that they were Wargames Factory, not brilliant sculpts, tedious to stick together. I managed 24 before I gave up. Having played Saxons 6 or 7 times, it's obvious that I do need numbers to perform well. So now I am thinking I may well emigrate and convert them to Anglo-Danes, I just need to add in a few Dane Axes, maybe a kite shield here or there. or maybe take the easy route and just buy some vikings! Looking forward to seeing yours!
ReplyDeleteI got lazy in the end and took four Huscarls rather than twelve Levy, I just couldn't face doing more than that! I have been using the wrong names for stuff it seems now that I have read the book in more detail. What I have been calling Ceorls are infact Thegns and what I have called Gebur are really Ceorls.
DeleteNice looking shield work. Is the middle figure in the hood a GB, don't believe I've seen that one.
ReplyDeleteHe is a Gripping Beast model and came as part of the Anglo-Saxon army deal. I have a similar model with the hood down somewhere too.
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