Early Franks and Domain of Soissons

[Corso]

Great paintwork especially the armour

[arget8]

Thanks for the comments gents, I appreciate the support!

Here are the last of the Frankish starting force. I'm totally done with the basic forces for the Romans and the Franks now, with only the Visigoths left. One thing I'm trying to do is make my non-Roman forces have dual use to decrease the amount of painting and buying that I have to do. What this means is that I've used some Picts, Saxons, Goths, and Romans for the Frankish Levy which will decrease the amount of painting I need to do, especially for the Goths and Saxons.






Another blog post is up now. This one shows the additional campaign rules for the Visigoth player. Next up will be the cards for each faction's fate deck.

https://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-dreaded-goths-visigoth-additional.html

[arget8]

I played a game of Dux Brit over the weekend while at Cold Wars and got to try out the forces for my Domain of Soissons campaign supplement. This battle, which was the first for both me and my opponent Caleb, pitted the Franks of Clodwig the Red (played by yours truly) and the Gallo-Romans of Honorius Sextimanius (played by Caleb) in the Raid on a Village scenario. More on the blog.





https://wartoendallblogs.blogspot.com/2018/03/clodwig-reds-big-day-out.html

[Ragnar]

Cool photos. 

Was it as painful to move the troops on the teddy bear fur grass as it looks?

[arget8]

Thanks!

As to the fur, not really. I use 1" washers for bases, so that keeps most minis from being too top-heavy. The mat is dyed, rather than painted, so it's not as stiff as most. However, I do plan on getting movement trays to speed things up, which will have the added bonus of helping with any potential balance issues.

[Mr.J]

Excellent figures and fur mat. It all looks great!

[Ragnar]

Thanks for the response, Arget!

[rumacara]

This project is looking very good.
Your painting and convertions are an inspiration for me to paint mine.

[nervisfr]

I'm happy to see your are still working on your project.
Great paint, conversion and game !
 

[arget8]

Thanks gents! I'm hoping to get some more playtest games in the next month or so. I realized when I was pulling stuff out for this game that I am actually missing the second group of Roman missile troops, so those will be on the painting table soon. Other than that I'm working on Saxons and Visigoths.

[arget8]

So, it's been a while, but moving halfway across the country may have had something to do with it.

Clodwig the Red returned to the Domain of Syagrius to loot and pillage the lands of the Romans at Historicon. After getting an early jump, the Franks were able to hold off the Romans with their warriors and elites, while the levies looted. The Franks were only able to find one piece of loot, but due to the limits of the terrain, that was all that was needed. Despite the best efforts of the Gallo-Romans, the Franks were able to gain a +7 victory!












I plan on building more stuff to add to my terrain collection before I run the game at Fall In in November. Right now, the plan is a vineyard, forest ground texture, a few more buildings and trees, and maybe some swamps.

[Codsticker]

Fantastic looking table: the trees, the buildings the fields- all very nice.

[DintheDin]

A very realistic terrain and some very nice low angle pics!

[arget8]

Thank you gents! I'm going to try to really up my game for the next show. I've got some interesting plans in the works.

[commissarmoody]

Another great looking game with your wonderful painted minatures.