Ogrob's medievals for SAGA. Heavy cavalry 8/5

[Basementboy]

The yellow scheme looks brilliant- almost puts me in the mind of Averland from WFB. Absolutely love the halved helmets on the men at arms, it looks awesome

[Ogrob]

The yellow scheme looks brilliant- almost puts me in the mind of Averland from WFB. Absolutely love the halved helmets on the men at arms, it looks awesome

They ended up scratching an old Empire itch for sure. Not intentional, but a happy coincidence.

[Mikai]

Nice job, lovely colour scheme!

[Ogrob]

Steady progress, which is a good thing since the convention is only a week out. I have in fact managed to finish the 4 point force to demo with.

I freehanded a banner for the warlord, which I am quite happy with. They are on a sabot base, and I also have a 40mm sabot that can take just the warlord figure.


And the bow levy. Really pleased with these and how the head swaps worked. For these I did both the green and yellow a little bit more muted, with olive tones for the green highlights and mixing ochre into the yellow.


And then another kit arrived, some Light Cavalry. I had a long think about how to build everything I wanted and how many kits I needed. Fortunately I found four old light cavalry in my projects box, two of them still on sprue, and two half started (look them up in my Game of Thrones thread ). The later needed new arms and heads to be servicable. With these four extra, three boxes will give me everything I need.

I built six warriors on horse. I will use as many of the scandinavian kettle helms as I can, just for the local connection


And then two test figures for the mercenary unit Lombard Lancers. These present a little conundrum, as they are Warrior-class, but with elite armour and barded horses. I need them to be visually distinct from my hearthguard, so I don't want to just use Perry men at arms for them. My plan is as follows: The slightly armoured horse heads rather than the fully armoured ones, no plumes. Light cavalry bodies, and the heads with the Italian turbans. All in all, this should make them quite distinct. I may also paint their armour forge-blackened rather than polished steel.


What do you think?

[Ogrob]

Making the most of a week of Easter holiday, and have managed to finish another three units and build the last infantry for this force. Just waiting on cavalry boxes to arrive to finish everything.

First, the Brutal Barbute squad. A point of regular Hearthguard on foot. These use mostly bits from the two command sprues (Europeans and WotR infantry) plus one body from the foot Men at Arms sprue.


Second, a unit of Brigand mercenaries. I built these just intending them as more warriors, but compared to the Billmen I feel the perfectly capture the skirmishing nature of the Brigand mercenaries. They struggle with heavily armoured opponents, but excel at bringing down a fatigued target. I painted these in a more muted version of the colour scheme, with olive and dark ochre.


And another mercenary unit, the Foreign Men at Arms. I think I mentioned earlier, but just like the Lombard Lancers these are Warrior-class figures, but with elite armour stat. How to make them stand out from regular hearthguard on foot? I've gone for different helmets, with open faces, lighter armaments with just swords, plus a different colour scheme with forge-blackened armour and a scheme that leans heavier on the green with just a yellow accent on the chests.


Finally, I've cleared out my infantry sprues and built a block of 20 pike. With the command figures earlier I can stretch this to 24, which should be plenty for several factions. That means I've built all the infantry I have planned for now. Depending on what comes up in play, I may want to go back and add more pike and/or more crossbows so I could see getting another European Mercenaries box.


What do you think?

[Mikai]

I think that I really want to see some pictures of the upcoming convention at which you use all of these lovely folks 

[Ogrob]

I think that I really want to see some pictures of the upcoming convention at which you use all of these lovely folks 

Thank you, but I think my game will not be the most visual. A small 4-point demo, 33 figures per side, with fairly minimal terrain. I'll try and take some pictures of the other games put on by our club, there should be some pretty cool terrain on display.

[Digits]

Me thinks your warlord should be called Jordan Love! 😉

[commissarmoody]

The Levy, swords men, harth guard, men at arms and command stand all look great! 😁

[Basementboy]

All looking fantastic! huge props to you for building and painting it all so quickly

[Ogrob]

Thanks fellas! More to come, Easter is normally a productive time as I get a nice long holiday off work.

[Ogrob]

Another little build update. Managed to get hold of a couple of boxes of Perry cavalry, both heavy and light. Spent some time today finishing a pair of mercenary units.

First up are the Lombard Lancers. I already mentioned these I believe, but they are Warrior-class but with elite armour and barded horses. In order to tell them apart from regular mounted men-at-arms (hearthguard in SAGA terms), I settled on the following: light cavalry bodies but with barded horses, and heads with the very italian barbute and turban combo. Their horses also have the plainer head armour, while the true elites will have fancy plumed and armoured horse heads.


And then the Foreign Men at Arms in their mounted version. Again, warrior-class but with improved armour. For these, I've gone for men-at-arms bodies, but completely unarmoured horses. I also used all the bodies I had with jupons plus helmets with visible faces. Finally, like their foot version, they have a little lighter armament as most of my cavalry will be holding lances.


What do you think?

[fred]

I like these additions, you have been able to have a theme with each group, whilst keeping the individual models different.

[Ogrob]

Thank you!

Another little bit finished today. A few banners and musicians that can be used to extend the 20 billmen or 20 pike into two units of 12 if I need the strength.


And a unit of 12 pavisiers. Most factions are limited to one unit of these so don't need as many as the pikes or bills.

[commissarmoody]

Cool! Where did you source the spear arms?