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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Dean on January 28, 2024, 03:33:16 PM
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So I was really interested in the Five Leagues from the Borderlands write ups on here and thought I’d take a look. Sure enough it looks like fun and will be another good use for these armies I am building plus an outlet for new minis when my six factions are done ;)
I’ll log progress here in case it is of interest to anyone, and as always comments are very welcome, but not necessary :D
To start with I built three more Victrix vikings and got some appropriate resin heroes via MitznSimzGoR. So I give you Gunnar, his friends, and his followers as they prepare to start their journey through the region of Nalar.
I also made some appropriate markers (unknown enemy and location) and initiative dice.
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Definitely interested in seeing what you do, like and dislike. I've played 5P but not 5L and have heard varying reviews of both. But I love the markers and other things you've already done
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I have become a convert to the idea of bespoke battlefield markers over card or paper chits. I'm always interested in seeing what others come up with (partly so I can steal their ideas of course).
I recently made some Out Of Ammo markers after getting tired of my miniature idiots running out all the time and having no way to mark it on the table.
Good luck with your campaign!
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Thanks guys!
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Gunnar’s Tale
“As well as my two companions that came with me from the North (Ivar and Erik), we have a Mystic (Dorothea), a Feral (Miyako), and a Preen (Spreet) and I feel I have found the right companions for this quest so today we travelled south into Nalar. First stop was the farming community near Sandy Wharf which we reached uneventfully but immediately started to hear about something strange the farmers have seen in the woods between the farms and the coast.
There is nobody here we can recruit and it has cost us 2 Gold to stay at the only Inn, so before we move on Dorothea foraged for herbs and found two doses of Ironshield Root, while some of the team helped out around the local farms, earning back 1 Gold. We then set out to investigate the rumours we were hearing.“
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Cut to game 1:
Forest Folk Camp Raid - Moving slowly Gunnar eventually spied the enemy, strange creatures half human and half beast had made camp. He signaled the warband to get into good positions and indeed they were nearly upon the enemy before they were spotted and the alarm raised.
1- Spreet was primed and ready and immediately took out the one that seemed likely to be there leader. The enemy, cleared surprised failed to hit with their bows and the rest move to attack, but the warband gets stuck in, killing two more which is enough to make another one flee.
2 - Next round Preet wings another, miyako wings the one in the woods and Erik kills him, and Ivar loots the camp (finding a couple of torches).
3 - Next round Preet finishes off the one he wounded, Gunnar kills another, the last one tries to fight him but realising he is now alone, he runs off and the battle is over!
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Having some fun filling in gaps in the Unique Leaders table, plus my take on a Duskling hero and another Feral hero. All 3D prints from sellers on Etsy.
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Next entry “During the evening one of the locals tells a tale of similar creatures and their strange Fey masters and the following morning we decide to move on to Freefield. Along the way the meet a despairing villager who tells us of more of these beastmen moving through the forest towards Sandy Wharf, and we decide to take them on.”
Erik was the first to get to grips with the enemy but came off badly and would have likely been killed if not for Dorothea’s Heal spell. Preet got a good shot at the advancing minotaur and Ivar followed up and killed the beast, while Gunnar wounded two others.
Preet killed one outright, Erik did better and wounded his attacker (which Miyako then shot and killed). Gunnar was attacked by two and killed them both! At this point the two enemy archers (one now which had run out of arrows) ran away!
Against the odds, the lone remaining enemy put Ivar out of action (ended up wounded for 2 turns) which made Preet angry enough that he leapt over the hedge and killed it.
Job done!
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I have to say, Five Leagues is fast becoming one of my favourite games of all time.
Thanks for sharing your tales with us. Good job on the unique leaders. I really must get around to making some of my own. We're sure to need some sooner or later, and I want them to actually be unique, not just promoted standard figures press-ganged into service at the last minute just so we can get a game in. :)
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I’m with you on that mate. Bit of campaign stuff during the week, quick games to play at the weekend, bunch of different figures to collect and paint up, loads of entertainment, great game!
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“We managed to get poor Ivar to Freefield and did some work locally to pay for our board and even earned a little. We decided to rest up and let Ivar heal and stayed in Freefield for market day, although we didn’t learn anything useful. While taking Ivar to the healer so he would be fit to fight again, I realised that we had come close to losing him and looked for someone to join us. We were fortuitous and found Leonidas, ready to join us as long as we promised to help rid the Barrens of Ecthel of the strange cold blooded beasts that have appeared there.”
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“Next step, we need more gold for better weapons, so we take a job for the local monastery. A young priest had been bringing a holy relic to the Monastery and has vanished without a trace, we have been hired to find him and retrieve the relic. Part of our journey was spent in the company of a mirthful traveller, I now call friend, but we parted as we entered the forest. We soon noticed it was eerily quiet, and the we spied the cart, sitting on a hill, looking for all the world like a trap! Sending Ivar to scout further along the path, we headed for the cart, for what else could we do?”
Miyako was the first to reach the cart and seeing three shambling forms coming up towards her, let fly, and the first enemy dropped to the ground. The enemy kept coming, three more burst through the trees on their left, another three on the right. Shambling monstrosities, no longer men. Preet. Shot a wounded another, Gunnar fought his way past the cart to kill one, but they showed no sign of faltering.
Gunnar faced off against one in monk’s robes, was this the novice they had come to find? Sadly he had no choice and plunged his sword into its chest. Miyago fired but found herself out of ammo, but a quick spell by Dorothea and she was re-supplied. Leonidas and Erik had bided their time and now attacked, Leonidas killed his and then the other, but not before Erik took a wound.
Miyako shot the last one and the battle was over.
“Relics they said! This is treasure and worth much more that the five gold we were promised! But we escorted it back to town untouched, I’d rather have the monks on my side, and we had grave tidings to bear. I was right, on learning what we had seen, the monks gave us a Quest…”
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“The monks admitted that sending us to retrieve their treasure was a test, and I guess we passed, for they asked us to now retrieve the real relic, taken by a gang of pillagers, deserters from the Baron’s forces that have been fighting the Fey. They were headed south and would need to be caught before they got deep into the Dakor Mountains.”
Gunnar and crew made their way carefully through the rocky terrain, unable to see much in any direction, until three of the pillagers appeared around a corner in front of them. Miyako fired off a shot, taking down the man armed with a sling and the first battle was on. Our heroes dispatched the other two in short order but the commotion drew others into the fray.
As more enemies appeared from two directions, Spreet downed another one, Leonidas took a wound before Gunnar intervened, Miyako wounded another and Ivar polished him off.
Ivar, pushed his luck too far and charged on, but was taken down. Miyako got a shot off, stopping that guy in his tracks, but Spreet was now angry and abandoning his bow charged at the foe blocking anyone else. Thankfully Spreet took down his target, but then round the next corner came a figure that made even Gunnar pause, a viscious looking warrior wrapped in furs, clearly a ruthless killer out for blood!
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Spreet missed, Gunnar closed in and managed to score a wound, but was soon in trouble and took a wound himself, and it would have been worse if the Monks hadn’t blessed him before they left on the quest! With a final heroic effort he managed to push the foe back and give Miyako an opening for a killing shot, phew!
Meanwhile Dorothea and Leonidas reached the first objective, but it was not the relic and on hearing footsteps turned find another foe behind them, quickly dispatched by Leonidas. Gunnar located another but triggered a landslide, thankfully not blocking a direction they needed to go, and Spreet got to a third, finding a Scout’s Cloak.
Dorothea first thought the next area was empty, but after searching found a ver well balanced Bastard Sword that Gunnar was sure to love. As she and Leonidas started to make their way back to the rest yet another enemy group appeared. There were three, but as soon as the first sprouted tow arrows in his chest the others disappeared from view!
A cautious approach saved the day, as Gunnar made his way forward, the enemy slinger missed and the other one leapt from hiding but Gunnar’s armour held off the attack, allowing him to then grab the initiative and force his way through the gap. Spreet shot and killed the Slinger, Gunnar killed his target and hopefully that was it.
Unfortunately the next area they searched unleashed a hidden trap, wounding Miyako, but then they final found the object of their quest.
“The pillagers turned nasty, attacking us a we made our way through the tight confines of the paths through the mountains, and poor Ivar will be out of action for many weeks. I thought my own end had come when a berserker wrapped in furs also appeared, and have an impressive scar to help me remember the encounter! As well as the recovered relic, we came away with a finely balanced sword, a scout’s cloak, and a large quiver, so not a bad haul. We settle in for the night before setting off back to Freefield, but as night falls we realise there is something strange in the woods nearby …”
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What a nice idea of making a dungeon quickly :)
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Thanks Freddy!
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I once played a dungeon crawl at the Tactica in Hamburg that had a beautifully detailed tabletop of the surface world which lifted off in sections to reveal the tunnels beneath, as the players discovered them. Maybe the most impressive tabletop I ever played a game on. While I'd love to do the same myself, I am way too lazy and inept to build something like that.
So when it comes to Five Leagues dungeoneering, I have chickened out and will be going the floorplans route if we ever do any. I like your solution, though. Like Freddy said, a good way of getting a game in at short notice if the random tables throw a dungeon at you.
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Wow that does sound impressive, but yeah I plan to make some room and corridor tiles for Delves, l was indeed caught on the hop when the Site Battle came up, but that for me is part of the fun to then tie what the tables give you back into the story arc.
For anyone not playing 5LB, each ‘turn’ has some dice rolls to generate what happens leading up to the battle, of which there are six types each with a different table layout, enemy positioning, special rules, and victory conditions. This combined with random encounters along the way, a whole host of different foes and bosses, and then alternative options for getting into trouble like riding patrol, fulfilling a contract, or a linked set of events for a Quest, are keeping me amused of a weekly basis.
Highly recommended for anyone looking for a short tabletop skirmish (2 to 3 hours from setup to putting away) and an excuse to paint a variety of minis, or indeed just dust off stuff you already have.
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I’ve been having some fun with filling out the figures I need, so here are some cultists, various individual enemy characters, and a captive for the next part of the quest - all Vae Victis sculpts rendered by 3DEN Prints. Also some Giant Rats - Tytan Troll sculpts.
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Oh nice. I have some giant rats and cultists to do myself. :)
Well, not that much of a coincidence, actually, as I also have giant spiders, gargoyley imp-type things and a bunch of other stuff too.
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lol Yeah but it’s fun matching stuff up to the lists, and I’m trying to restrain myself and re-use things from the Saga armies as much as I can, but it’s giving me a great excuse for some other purchases ;)
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One must be careful about excuses for new purchases, it’s a slippery slope! The results of your existing purchasing and painting certainly look good, though, so I’ll desist with being a voice of reason. Carry on buying and painting, I will enjoy seeing your next set of figures!
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lol Thanks mate, yeah I know what you mean, I already have my eye on a box of the North Star Gnolls, and I love their new Human Light Infantry, both should give me plenty to play with
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As you don't need so many figures for Five Leagues, I've found a good way to keep things from getting out of hand is to buy single sprues or pairs of sprues. I just got some gnolls myself. :)
You can get all the Frostgrave sprues from sellers on eBay (at least on eBay UK you can). You might end up spending a little bit more per individual figure, but you aren't forking out fifteen to twenty quid for a box full of figures, most of which you don't really need.
Edit: Though you are playing other games too, so maybe you DO want those extras figures (not familiar with AoM and how many figures it needs).
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A good point well made sir :)
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“Rather than return straight to Freefield we decided to check out the source of the camp fire at the forest edge we spotted the evening before. So we made Ivar comfortable and set off again, unprepared for the strange sights we were to behold. Twisted men who had clearly fallen under the influence of an insidious cult, and needed to be purged!”
The team managed to get into pretty good positions before the enemy realised, and as soon as they were spotted, Miyago shot one. Spreet missed though, and drew too much attention, and the returning crossbow bolt didn’t miss! Then Gunnar found himself facing something other than a simple cultist and a tough battle ended with both of them down! Leonidas faired better and took down his opponent.
Taking no chances, Dorothea cast Distract on the enemy archer, giving the rest of the gang time to close in and get the initiative. Leonidas struck first and killed the threat. Spreet and Miyago both scored wounds. Miyago went to fire again, found just one arrow left in her large quiver, but made it count (and Dorothea cast Darts to refill her quiver). Erik also killed a cultist, but it seems the remaining two felt no fear and kept coming. Leonidas meanwhile looted the enemy camp, finding a very nice new staff for Dorothea.
Leonidas killed another cultist and then the final one rashly decided to attack him and that didn’t end well, the battle was over. Finally the team could rush to Gunnar’s aid, and found him sitting shaking his head groggily, he’d just been knocked out!
“I found myself in combat with a dangerous enemy agent, somewhat more skilled than the average cultist. A hard fought battle, I finally bested him, but in a counterattack with his last dying breath, he rendered me unconscious! Thankfully the gang were successful without me and a search of the enemy alerted us to the location of their secret hideout.”
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Grrrr, cultists are a pain! And what is more of a pain is when your idiot warband members turn up for a fight with only one arrow in their quiver! :)
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8 - “Back in camp that night we realise Ivar is not doing too well and we decamp first thing in the morning for Frostfire Ford. Along the way we meet a travelling bard to finishes the journey with us and promises to sing of our great deeds in the future.”
“We get Ivar to a healer, and plan to spend time training, but then word reached us from the monks that one of their number has been captured by Slave Raiders nearby, and the next part of their quest is to rescue him. The slavers intended to make their way through the Dark Marshes, but had camped before moving too far in and that is where we came upon them. They were clearly preparing to move and some of their number were already scouting the best path through the marsh, we must hurry before our chance is lost!”
The team, especially Gunnar with his Scout’s Cloak, manage to get quite close before being spotted, the race is now on to rescue the captive before the enemy can get him away.
Spreet downed a slinger, Miyako started firing on the troops in the Marsh to hold them at bay, and the rest of the team charged out of the trees. Sadly the enemy were over their surprise, but Dorothea distracted the remaining slinger and the slaver who attacked Gunnar payed the ultimate price for his courage, and Gunnar was free to get close enough to the lead slaver, though could not yet defeat him. The remaining slinger was now fighting for his life and proving to be a tough little beggar, LeoNidas was fought to a standstill and Erik took a wound! At this point a couple of the slavers in the marsh decided they had had enough.
Gunnar still couldn’t kill the enemy leader but did manage to push him away from the captive, but now the slinger took out Erik and the last two slavers had made it back out of the marsh!
Leonidas finally took out the slinger and Spreet shot another slaver, leaving just two on the field. Leonidas killed one, freeing the prisoner again, while Gunnar finally bested the leader. The day was theirs!
“Having rescued the captive, one Brother Marcus, and got him back to Frostfire safely, we install Erik at the same healer as Ivar, both will need a couple of weeks before they can rejoin us, at which point we will need to escort the monk back to his brethren in Freefield”.
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Grrrr, cultists are a pain! And what is more of a pain is when your idiot warband members turn up for a fight with only one arrow in their quiver! :)
lol Yeah, there has been a discussion about that rule on the Facebook Group, but I like it, a little jeopardy adds to the game lol
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Oh yeah, we like it too, always makes us laugh when it happens on a character's first shot of the game. We're not going to house-rule that away, it's fun.
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In preparation for more games over Easter, I got a camp set painted up
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Looks good! Who makes the tents? They seem like good general purpose camp pieces.
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Nice! I have those same tents, though mine came with a different fireplace and some blankets.
Pattus, they are a 3D-printed set, I've seen them being sold all over the place with varying accompanying other pieces by different sellers. I think I got mine from Etsy. Not sure where the original print files came from.
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Those actually came from Amazon and don’t let on who the manufacturer was
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Thanks for the info about the tents!
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“While waiting for Brother Marcus, Ivar and Erik to be ready for the trip to Freefield, I decided we would deal with the Cultist hideout we had located. As we packed to leave, I was delighted to be approached by a Duskling with the delightful name of Grak Skullsplitter, looking to join us in our mission.”
Our heroes approach the enemy’s hideout, until one of the spots Leonidas and raises the alarm. The two sides juggle for position, but Grak gets himself into trouble and is lucky to only take a wound. Gunnar gets the first kill.
Knowing Leonidas is coming to help, Grak dives back in and kills a cultist, then Leoonidas kills another. The third cultist on that flank attacks Leonidas but doesn’t land a hit. Now though Dorothea is in trouble, the leader of the cultists is in fact a Scheming Heretic who Charms her into inactivity, and a cultist then charges in!
Thankfully the cultist fails to do any damage and before he can try again Gunnar cuts him down from behind. Meanwhile Miyako realising the threat, manages a clear shot on the Heretic and down he goes! The cultists keep going though and their one bowman finally manages a shot, wounding Gunnar. Spreet shoots another cultist, but the other cultist on the right is a harder task, both Leonidas and Grak try to take him out, Leonidas picks up a wound and Grak goes down! To make matter worse, Dorothea successfully heals Gunnar’s wound, but the scent of the magic attracts a pack of lurking giant rats!
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Miyako does well to take out the Cult Lieutenant before he can do any further harm. The last cultist is the bowman, he tries for Gunnar again, but the arrow doesn’t penetrate his chainmail this time, and the Spreet takes him down. That should be that, but of course now they have the rats to deal with.
Dorothea is forced into hand-to-hand combat, but soon is on the defensive. Gunnar wades in and with his +2 combat skills his trusty Bastard Sword is soon coated in rat blood, killing 4!. Leonidas has bandaged himself up, and accounts for two rats, Miyako gets one, Dorothea gets in a lucky blow with her staff, and the threat is easily dealt with.
“We arrived back in Frostfire Ford with a grand tale to tell! The cult threat has been dealt with, Grak was only wounded, the death of the Scheming Heretic was a welcome bonus, and we came away with some gold coins and a War Axe for Leonidas. Tomorrow, we will escort Brother Marcus back to Freefield”.
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“We set of quite early, knowing we would need to camp at least once on our journey. We had reached Waybrook Gap, and were starting to navigate through the rocky foothills, when Spreet caught site of movement and alerted us that someone, or something, was approaching. It was Leonidas though who raised the alarm as he recognised the cold blooded foe that had been raiding his homeland.”
First round all archers missed while the melee troops got ready to fight, and the second round also saw ineffective archery as the foe made good use of the available rocky cover. That however was no defence against Gunnar, who killed the archer and saw off an attack from another lizard. The lizards proved to be quite resilient though and Gunnar’s opponent also survived an attack by Erik, while Leonidas took a wound. They couldn’t hold out though as Gunnar took out his, Leonidas stunned his, and Erik finished him off. Before they could celebrate though, Miyako alerted them to more foe coming through the rocks!
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Spreet and Miyako were not having a good day, yet more arrows bounced off rocks! Leonidas had been healed by Dorothea and lept in to protect the hapless archers. Another attempt and still both archers missed again. Thankfully the enemy archers was equally ineffective. Gunnar downed another foe, now there were two left, and the gang advanced on the hill.
Wary of the enemy archer, Dorothea cast distract and both Spreet and Miyako decided they had better get closer before trying again! Leonidas couldn’t wait to see if they could hit anything at last though and charged into the archer, neatly removing its head with his new War Axe! The Miyako finally got a shot on true, admittedly at close range in the open, and downed the enemy leader. The battle was over, our heroes could continue on their way.
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Nice. Looks like your team had a busy Easter weekend. :)
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Nice little selection of Gobboes (Tytan Troll 3D prints). Am enjoying filling in the enemy lists with these little units, plenty of excuses to buy “just a few more minis” lol
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I was hoping to not succumb to that impulse. As much as possible my aim with this game was to give me incentive to paint up figures I already own, rather than to end up buying more. But that didn't last too long. My large collection of unpainted figures from the LOTR partwork magazine has received some attention, but I have also bought a bunch of shiny new stuff, too.
Oh well, I tried...
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My 30 year hiatus meant no 'pile of shame' to worry about and so far I've been pretty disciplined with only buying things for a purpose, I've even been finding ways to use up the remaining Victrix Vikings from my first purchase, and my most recent project for the Faceless I restrained myself and bought individual sprues from Wargames Emporium, so I'm feeling pretty smug about things right now. A year from now though ... lol
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Oh yes, it had slipped my mind that you had returned to the hobby after a lengthy gap.
Best way to defeat your lead pile is to never have one in the first place. Stay on target! :)
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“We moved on through the edge of Waybrook Forest and camped there for night. In the morning I remembered the map we found on the leader of the Old Ones, it seemed to point to location of a monster’s lair and we resolved to go and look for it after dropping off Brother Marcus at Freefield.
However, it seems that first we would have to deal with some fools who wanted to rob us! They got quite close before Spreet spotted movement in the trees and sounded the alarm, but we soon dealt with the fools and only two survived to run away. Leonidas took a slight wound and we thought we’d lost Grak but he was only knocked unconscious.
Eventually we made Freefield, said goodbye to Brother Marcus, and prepared to go Monster Hunting.”
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“We split up in the forest, to look for the beast, and I was pretty far from the rest of the gang when I spied the beast, a nasty looking Ogre, who sadly spied me at the same time! It was a hard fought battle of back and forth and just as the gang reached us I managed to land the final blow.
We arrived back in Freefield with the Monster’s head, and during the merriment that evening we learnt of yet more attacks by strange Fey creatures and sighting of a possible camp in the forest.”
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This most recent game was the first of the Monster Lairs, in total there are 21 in the game. I have just finished painting up the last of them, so here they are, with increasing difficulty as they go. Also my first go at using a scenic backdrop, a scenery shot that came scrunched up as packing in with an order recently :D
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What a great thread.
Plenty of inspirational eye candy.
RMZ
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Good to see your monsters. :)
I currently have a grand total of two figures available for that role. I think I shall paint more up as needed rather than trying to do them all at once (don't even own figures for most of them). I am currently working on some Unique Character figures in between the faction stuff I still need, after that it will be more roadside and dungeon encounter critters.
Cool thing about this game is that you can generally keep playing with what you have, you don't need to front-load things and have everything painted at the start.
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Thanks for those kind words guys.
Plynkes, I have all the Unique Foes accounted for too lol
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Hehe, you don't muck about, do you?
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Nah mate, making the most of my return. The fun continues as I start filling in some gaps in the enemies lists. I‘ve been looking for an excuse to buy these lovely Lynx sculpts by Asgard Rising, so I’m using them for Elfin Hounds/Dust Hounds, including an armoured version as a Leader when needed. Delve Crawlers (Cave Spiders) also from Asgard. Both printed up exactly as I needed by Phalanx Printing, right for 28mm.
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Nice one, you can never have enough critters for this game.
I have a few spiders to do, and find myself struggling to make a decision regarding colour schemes. I'll add your efforts to my memory bank of inspiration. :)
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This next game was originally going to be another simple Camp Raid, but I realised the Story Points were stacking up and the Quest was a bit of a distraction from the main aim of clearing down Enemy Threats, so a plot was hatched to have a series of games against the Fey threat. Game 13 became a Meeting Engagement against Goblin Raiders but that meant they had Outflanking on their side and then Lady Chance also through Unknown Enemy into the mix, so the 9 goblins became 4 in view, an unknown counter that resolved to another 4, and a final group of 4 more turning up later!
“Once again we headed into the forest, looking for the enemy camp, only to spot movement on the pathway. A group of goblins were clearly visible, but a second, more screened by the trees, were off to the left. We split into two teams and hoped we could deal with this without calling more trouble down on us. We laid our ambush and prepared to strike, but as the movement to the left resolved into four more goblins, we realised this wasn’t going to be easy!”
“Spreet and Miyako let fly and the battle was on. Three goblins down in the first round, another four in the second, and the last one was running away, things looked good. Then we spotted that Grak was down and more goblins were on the way!”
“The goblins spotted Leonidas apparently all on his own and rushed towards him, but even a battle scared Feral knew better than to take on those odds and waited for the enemy to come to him, while the rest of us rushed to his aid. Our archers did well, downing two, and Leo using a bush for cover got in a counterattack that dealt with a third, and the last one turned tail and fled.”
“We could take no joy in this victory however as we found to our dismay that Grak was dead! We vowed there and then to put an end to these Fey intruders!”
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“The next day we continued towards where we believed the enemy camp to be, it seems we were indeed on the right track as we were attacked by a pack of Lynx clearly at the command of their Fey masters”
“The first beast to get close was shot by Miyako but the rest kept coming. Then as we braced to meet their charge yet another four appeared on our right, lead by one appearing to be wearing armour! We couldn’t wait for the first group to hit us, we had to charge into them.”
“It was a hard fought battle, with even Dorothea and Spreet reduced to hand-to-claw fighting, but I eventually took down the armoured beast and we could count our wounds. Leo had an impressive scar even after Dorothea healed him, Spreet needed a bandage, and although Erik went down in the battle he wasn’t badly hurt and his broken spear was repairable.”
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Tytan Troll Tree Blights
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Oh no, poor Grak!
Oh well, plenty more where he came from, I guess...
I really like those tree blight thingies. I have some tree men from another manufacturer, but I think those would fit in fine with them. One cool thing about this thread and others like it is that I discover new minis I never knew about. I'm not very knowledgeable about what's out there in the Fantasy realm, due to the fact that I'd been concentrating on purely historical stuff for about twenty years prior to getting into Five Leagues.
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ETSY has been a real eye-opener for me, almost any fantasy mini you can think of is out there somewhere :o
The trick is finding good providers to work with, who are as interested in the hobby as us and will work on scaling to get you just what you need, and you need a few of them doing different ranges. I’ve got four now I enjoy working with and keep going back to (with more than twice that many I have tried but won’t use again).
That said, up next will be North Star plastic kits for Gnolls (Gnawlings), Orcs (Dusklings) and Humans (Ruin Within/Curse of War) as I enjoy the process of making my own poses.
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I have a bit of a love/dislike relationship (love/hate would be way too strong a wording) with the Frostgrave plastics.
On the one hand they are fantastic-looking figures that are great for building up your 5 Leagues factions, I have made good use of them and shall continue to do so.
On the other hand I find multi-part plastics a bit of an annoying faff to put together, and much more work than my lazy ass would ideally like to do. Working through my backlog of LoTR plastics is a breeze by comparison. But as I said, I'm going to keep using them, as they really are smashing figures. :)
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So for those that haven’t played 5LB, one of the enemy lists is called The Faceless - “A great and terrible kingdom is preparing to unleash its armies across the land. Wearing closed-face helmets, the grim legions advance under flags devoted to their animal totems.”
The list has 12 units, which in this case needs a mix of light and partial armoured troops, crossbows, slings, and unit leaders. From the following mix of figures I an make them all.
The figures themselves are all Victrix but using five different sets - Vikings, Unarmoured Early Saxons, Norman Crossbows, Athenian Hoplites, and the Greek Hoplites heads.
Sorry Plynkes, but I had a lot of fun with this lol
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Nice!
Those combinations of different historical types work really well for fantasy. I wouldn't have thought of doing that but I think it looks real good.
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Thanks mate