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Miniatures Adventure => Age of Myths, Gods and Empires => Topic started by: Rogerc on May 30, 2018, 09:32:07 AM

Title: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Rogerc on May 30, 2018, 09:32:07 AM

I have been itching to get my North European Bronze Age figures out for some time so when chum Chris offered to organise a Lion Rampant game I jumped at the chance to use these figures. Some tweaking required but the rules I think will work reasonably well.

Write up and pictures on the blog.

https://gapagnw.blogspot.com/

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1745/41725683344_9f413b52c7.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/26za2Xw)IMG-20180525-WA0000 (https://flic.kr/p/26za2Xw) by Roger Castle (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152172226@N06/), on Flickr
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1747/41546765995_f51559d135.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/26im34D)IMG-20180525-WA0003 (https://flic.kr/p/26im34D) by Roger Castle (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152172226@N06/), on Flickr
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1742/28575743188_7bdded0fd1.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Kx99To)IMG-20180525-WA0006 (https://flic.kr/p/Kx99To) by Roger Castle (https://www.flickr.com/photos/152172226@N06/), on Flickr

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Erik on May 30, 2018, 11:42:58 AM

Great AAR and lovely miniatures. I have had my eyes out for those for some years and had promised my self to get them at this years Tactica (luckyly Foundry han'nt brought them, so I dodged another pile of unpainted lead :)).
I would use them as allies for med Trojans. With all the amber flowing south, some northern warriors would be bound to flow with it.

There has been made rule for Chariot Rampant i Wargames Soldiers and Strategy. You can read about our project on the link below. Unfortunately our thread got smashed when Photobucket shut down, but Dr. Zombie has been trying to save some of it and some of the old pictures are somehow back now.

 http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=86533.0

Cheers
Erik

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Rogerc on May 30, 2018, 12:51:53 PM

Thanks Erik, had a look at that, what were the main things you changed?

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: S_P on May 30, 2018, 05:25:25 PM

Inspiring stuff :)

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Erik on May 31, 2018, 08:26:36 AM

Its actually mostly the boasts that change and then ofcourse the rules for chariots. As I recal we used two pr. unit with three hits pr. chariot. There are also some sample retinues, but I think we managed without, and instead made our own from game to game. Its one of the things a really like about LR. The rules are very flexible and makes scenriobuilding easy. Both the boasting system and the small specialrules to each unittype.

The article is still good for inspiration. ITs issue 82.

Cheers
Erik

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Rogerc on May 31, 2018, 12:37:43 PM

Thanks Erik, I will keep an eye out for that. We used 2 chariots and two horse mounted figures so we had six points for casualty removal but was similar to your description other than that. Chris made up some boasts specific to Bronze age which really added some flavour. I do think these will work very well.

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: DivisMal on May 31, 2018, 03:00:28 PM

Great idea and lovely models! Thank you for posting this gem of an AAR!

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: wolfkarl on May 31, 2018, 04:27:03 PM

What a great looking game! Great terrain pieces and figures. I really like the one with the relief of the "horned guy". Is this homemade?

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: rumacara on May 31, 2018, 08:09:46 PM

Great AAR and miniatures.
Keep it coming. :)

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Irregular Wars Nic on May 31, 2018, 10:04:04 PM

Beautiful looking game!

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Rogerc on June 01, 2018, 10:04:45 AM

Thanks for the feedback friends. It is pretty much my favourite collection, despite only be a small one.

The Horned God and a couple of the other pieces are commercially available from Monolith Designs, my personal favourite is the earth mother a lovely model. You can just about make her out in the larger shots, she is at the near end of the table, I can always add a picture if your interested, this is also a Monolith model.

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: LeadAsbestos on June 01, 2018, 02:23:25 PM

Share those boasts if you get the chance too, please! I use LR for my Trojan War games, and a longer list of appropriate boasts would be most welcome.

Inspirational stuff! Thank you

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Rogerc on June 01, 2018, 05:06:05 PM

Thanks Lead Asbestos, I did drop a picture of the boats onto the blog, not sure if its readable, if not I will get a copy from Chum Chris and can PM it over.

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Rogerc on June 01, 2018, 07:41:06 PM

Sorry Boasts.

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Patrice on June 02, 2018, 11:16:04 AM

Fascinating!  :o

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Ragnar on June 03, 2018, 12:34:44 AM

Marvelous!

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Askellad on June 03, 2018, 06:51:15 PM

Battle of Tollense? Best era ever for minis.

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Rogerc on June 03, 2018, 07:28:16 PM

Indeed, wont it be interesting to see what the result is when they excavate the whole battle site at Tollense?

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Lost Egg on June 04, 2018, 06:24:58 AM

Lovely stuff...I do like a bit of bronze :D

Looks like a fun game. I too am intrigued by the battle of Tollense, I'd love to know how common battles of such size were as its very difficult to get any sense of scale to the conflicts throughout the bronze age, though there is plenty of speculation.

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Barry S on June 04, 2018, 08:19:29 AM

Nice looking game. Thanks for sharing.

I have long admired that particular range.

Title: Re: North European Bronze Age Lion Rampant
Post by: Dr. Zombie on June 04, 2018, 09:06:47 AM

Great stuff.

I have long tried to stear clear of that particular temptation. This is very much not helping.