T'was lovely...

[Harry Faversham]

In our pokey little seaside resort yesterday. So, I had a walk along the seafront, bought some Tetley's Best Bitter and this month's Wargames Illustrated. I found a bench and sat in the winter sunshine gazing out over the Great North Sea. By the third can I could clearly see Longships sailing past Spurn Point. Then came the epiphany giving me my first two projects for the lockdowns of 2021. Re-base my Viking and Saxon Armies and also create an enemy for my Greek Hoplites to bash up. WI and the fourth can of Tets provided the answer... the new Oathmark Skellies!!!
I was, very reluctantly, going to paint up hordes of Persians. But the thought of painting all them spear carrying, flower-power hippy types, was most daunting. In comparison painting a Skellie Army's a right doddle. At a pinch they could have, a Blue Mushroom Ale induced, ruck with the Vikings too.
So thank you to both Josh Tetley and Wargames Illustrated.

[fred]

I’m liking your approach to creative thinking!

[armchairgeneral]

I have also had a similar thought process, musing with the idea of a simple solo game where your mission is to move down the table with a suitably sized force of hoplites to retrieve the Golden Fleece and then head back.

Every move a unit of skellies appears randomly anywhere on the table (as they are coming out of the ground) and being magically animated automatically attacks the nearest of your units. The skellies would have no morale to test so the trick would be to deploy your forces to destroy each unit quickly enough to avoid being overwhelmed.

[Harry Faversham]

Great idea, reminds me of a classic show game...
'A Run in Zululand!'

 

[syrinx0]

It is good to have a plan. Any plan is better than none. 

[Harry Faversham]

It serpently is...



 

[Harry Faversham]

I'm in a conundrum regarding the basing of the Skelly Army and would appreciate some wisdom/guidance from the Brethren. The basing for my Greeks and Vikings has proper grass green flock and tufts/shrubbery. I wanted the Undead rattling along on a landscape desolate and barren, bit like the grass withering where Ghengis Khan's ponies trod, kind of thing...
but will two vastly differing base colourings look daft when the two sides meet, that' mi' conundrum?

[Hu Rhu]

I'd go with the same basing as the armies they intend to fight.

[has.been]

You could do the front of the skellies' bases to match the others,
but the rear of their bases to have the trails of where the foul
undead have trod.

[fred]

I like has.been’s idea

But I’d certainly not find it a problem to have two armies with different basing on the table - we do that all the time as often we are fighting with armies built by two different people.

[Harry Faversham]

I like has.been’s idea

So do I, if I can nail it on the bases it'll look really good!

 

[Harry Faversham]

Up to press I've got the archers, skirmishers and chariots finished. But, kind of stuck with the four heavy infantry units I need. Initially they were going to be Oathmark figures, but I'm getting drawn to the Atlantic figures now, as they're more Greek themed... what to do?

[armchairgeneral]

Atlantic 

[Harry Faversham]

Waiting for the heavy infantry to arrive, all being well some piccys of the rest of the motley crew tomorrow.

[Harry Faversham]

A Gathering in the of darkness. The Undead are abroad and heading toward the land of men. Summoned from beyond the grave by The Evil Bishop of the Vale of Vile!