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Offline N.C.S.E

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #15 on: December 08, 2016, 03:16:15 AM »
playing the role of Cassandra for me in Troy.

I don't believe you!  ;D

Lovely miniatures, I've just put in a small order at redoubt for some of the Greek heroes, so I'm looking over your work with keen interest.

I'm curious about your opinion of Lion (or should it be Achilles?) Rampant being used for the period. Does it place enough importance upon the individual hero? Is it possible, for example, for Patroclus to have his finest hour with a few good dice rolls?

Offline Steve F

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #16 on: December 08, 2016, 08:34:39 AM »
I don't believe you!  ;D

Should have seen that coming.

Offline LeadAsbestos

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #17 on: December 08, 2016, 10:46:21 AM »
I'm curious about your opinion of Lion (or should it be Achilles?) Rampant being used for the period. Does it place enough importance upon the individual hero? Is it possible, for example, for Patroclus to have his finest hour with a few good dice rolls?

Not really. The overall period feel is right with the boasting, Fierce Foot, unit activation, etc, but I've been playing Tribal to get my Heroics some action. Working on a few tweaks for both systems to get just the right feel.

Offline Dr. Zombie

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #18 on: December 08, 2016, 10:52:53 AM »
You could play the heroes as a single units like in Dragons Rampant. Where you have hitpoints in stead of models.

We have had great fun playing the Chariots Rampant rules that was in an issue of Wargames Soldier and Strategy.

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #19 on: December 08, 2016, 06:44:14 PM »
Should have seen that coming.

I'm sure she did.

Offline Corso

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #20 on: December 08, 2016, 07:20:39 PM »
Lovely project :)

Offline LeadAsbestos

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #21 on: December 09, 2016, 01:05:08 AM »
You could play the heroes as a single units like in Dragons Rampant. Where you have hitpoints instead of models.

Exactly how Tribal does it!

We have had great fun playing the Chariots Rampant rules that was in an issue of Wargames Soldier and Strategy.
Basically the sames rules as I'm using, except I do more chariots and fewer runners. I like a Troy game to have plenty!

Lovely project :)
Thanks!

Offline Alxbates

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #22 on: December 10, 2016, 01:08:30 PM »
Inspirational stuff!

Offline Christian

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #23 on: December 17, 2016, 01:44:59 PM »
I'm very happy to see this get some traction, your figures always look excellent Chris!

Offline LeadAsbestos

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #24 on: December 17, 2016, 02:18:06 PM »
I'm very happy to see this get some traction, your figures always look excellent Chris!

And your terrain, thank you very much!

Offline LeadAsbestos

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #25 on: December 17, 2016, 02:34:46 PM »
Ordered one of everything of the new Eureka Dark Age Greeks, and they arrived yesterday. Really nice sculpts, wonderful clean casts, and right in line with the rest of the collection. And finally, some nicely sculpted females! That Redoubt Helen can go back to the bottom of the painting queue where she really belongs. :?

The obligatory scale shot:


Newline, Eureka, Redoubt( a smaller one, honestly), Eureka, BTD, Eureka, Foundry.

A nice fit! I asked for more civilians, so you never know!  Excited to get these done.

Offline Sammie

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #26 on: January 26, 2017, 09:44:04 AM »
Good job man! How is it going on? :D

Offline SteveBurt

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #27 on: January 26, 2017, 10:32:55 AM »
Saga also works quite well for Bronze Age stuff.
We tried 'chariots rampant' with Egyptians and Hittites and it gave a fun game but lacked a bit of flavour (except for the boasts). Then I made a couple of boards for Egyptians and Hittites and that worked much better.

Offline Richard in Sachsen

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2017, 11:48:11 AM »
Really, really beautiful project, LA. Very nice, indeed :-*!
You go to war with the figures you have, not the figures you wish you had!

Offline redzed

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Re: Once again to Troy... Now with Sea People!
« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2017, 12:05:18 PM »
looking good  :)
Commission Painting undertaken, PM or email me.

 

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