Author Topic: The Black Order - All Things End (Read 198783 times)

Knight-Captain Tyr · « **Reply #840 on:** January 05, 2022, 09:59:08 PM »

I, er, may be addicted to laminating.

(SAGA ruses look extremely fun - anyone tried?)

Elbows · « **Reply #841 on:** January 06, 2022, 01:39:47 AM »

Nothing wrong with that. I'm a big whore for laminated quick reference sheets. I end up making QRS for all of my games,

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Knight-Captain Tyr · « **Reply #842 on:** January 08, 2022, 11:29:15 PM »

Quote from: Elbows on January 06, 2022, 01:39:47 AM

Nothing wrong with that. I'm a big whore for laminated quick reference sheets. I end up making QRS for all of my games, .

Good thing too, cos I'm at it again... Making a warlord sheet for my Saga adventures. Me and a few friends are starting to keep track of our Warlords' experience as we play Saga. Thought I'd reuse some assets from the Oathmark cards and make a custom XP tracker, with flavour text etc matching the force:

Knight-Captain Tyr · « **Reply #843 on:** January 22, 2022, 10:03:35 PM »

Taking a leaf out of Koyote's excellent idea for using tabletop markers to represent advanced abilities in SAGA, I made a custom marker for the Black Order's reskinned 'Raise the Black Banner' ability. If you have the Horde battle board, you'll recognise this one...

Knight-Captain Tyr · « **Reply #844 on:** February 01, 2022, 07:04:24 PM »

I'm mostly occupied by painting terrain and the Pagan Rus in terms of Saga at the minute.

But.

That's no reason not to make a 7th rendition of the Black Order's leader.

I may have a problem...

Also, terrain in the works, freshly decorated with pagan Rus graffiti.

Knight-Captain Tyr · « **Reply #845 on:** February 02, 2022, 10:40:49 PM »

I've been tempted into looking at Britcon 2022. https://www.bhgs.org.uk/britcon---saga.html

I've never been to a Saga event before, but I have a friend who has, and he said it's generally a pretty chilled out atmosphere, so... Here I am looking at my first wargaming event in over a year and a half.

Hit by a sudden wave of inspiration, therefore, I started to make some custom fatigue markers - 3D ones instead of 2D just to give that added relish.

Ogrob · « **Reply #846 on:** February 03, 2022, 06:23:01 AM »

Nice! I have had something similar in the back of my mind for ages but never got round to it.

Knight-Captain Tyr · « **Reply #847 on:** February 13, 2022, 12:49:50 PM »

The township of Ember takes form!

I needed some more buildings for an upcoming game of the SAGA Legend scenario Urban Uprising. This scenario calls for an almost Mordheim-esque coverage of a 4x3 space with buildings and impassable terrain, representing the narrow, winding streets of a large city. While I don't think I'll quite manage a full 'city' - more of a 'township' feel - I'm well on the way now, with four of seven buildings down. Three resin casts from Norba (avoid - worst I've ever worked with and had to resculpt parts of the rooves entirely) and a Perry outhouse. Had a lot of fun adding bits and pieces to add character to each one. Still not quite finished yet.

And I also tried something slightly different recently - a foray into a universe I was in love with as a child, but have been away from for 15 odd years...

Little Odo · « **Reply #848 on:** February 13, 2022, 01:58:47 PM »

Great results on the buildings, and those rangers look very nice.

Malamute · « **Reply #849 on:** February 13, 2022, 02:07:34 PM »

Lovely stuff. The buildings are terrific.

Ogrob · « **Reply #850 on:** February 14, 2022, 09:25:02 AM »

Love the rangers, I keep meanin to grab that kit and paint them at some point.

Houses are nice as well, where are you going next? I think the Rohan house kit could be done up to fit nicely in with this look.

HappyChappy439 · « **Reply #851 on:** February 14, 2022, 10:36:19 AM »

Great work! The township is looking amazing!

Knight-Captain Tyr · « **Reply #852 on:** February 19, 2022, 01:42:01 PM »

Thanks all!

Quote from: Ogrob on February 14, 2022, 09:25:02 AM

Love the rangers, I keep meanin to grab that kit and paint them at some point.

Houses are nice as well, where are you going next? I think the Rohan house kit could be done up to fit nicely in with this look.

Considering they must be nigh on 20 years old, they're still a pretty decent kit.

I think for now I'm going to swerve and do some other projects for a bit - painting 4 houses back-to-back tired me out a bit and I still need to go back and add details (signposts etc).

Can't remember if I said already in this thread. I decided to attend my first ever SAGA event at Britcon 2022 later this year in August, so that gives me plenty of time to start thinking what I want to take. On the one hand, I'm slowly putting together some Pagan Rus for Heerschau 2022. On the other hand, I really do want to give the Black Order another run at an event, so I'm tempted to go back to their historical inspiration - the Teutonic Order - and run them at Britcon. Only historical boards from the Age of Crusades, Age of Vikings and Age of Invasions are allowed at the one-day event, so I'll be choosing from those.

Therefore, I need some fatigue markers! Some nice 3D ones. I also need a little army display tray which I'm going to work on soon I think.

And of course that's an excuse to finish off the latest Warlord conversion...

So here we go with the first completion of the road to Britcon 2022: Fatigue markers and Knight-Captain Tyr all ready to lead the Order on the battlefields of Nottingham.