"Songs of Blades ..."-backlog challenge, update: new gang, 24.04.

[Erny]

But if you do Slaine how can you resist breaking the rule and not getting the foundry Slaine?

I've been doing much the same thing and a hole bunch of citadel AD&D adventures have gotten a new lease of life along with a few monster warbands. I've started making a modular foam dungeon as well but only have a few rooms and corridors so far.

I did break and buy some other world kobolds though, they are great in SOBH.

Some super warbands there DonVoss.

[DonVoss]

Thank you again for your motivating comments.
And I would be very happy to see some of that "stolen idea" warbands...

@rule no. 1
For me a big part of the joy of the project is: rule no. 1
But if you make your own bands feel free to see it more as a guideline...

I am not sure if this is the right place to post it, but it's a kind of "songs..."-gang anyway...

While I searched the mountain I found enough robot-models for a "Songs of Mutants and Deathray Guns"-gang...



I promise to finish my arthurians to return to the fantasy-thing again...

DV

[fourcolorfigs]

It did not take me long to assemble a warband last night. Now I have to paint them! I discuss and show pics on my blog:

http://four-color-figures.blogspot.com/2010/04/song-of-blades-and-heroes-special.html

Thanks for looking!

[DonVoss]

@fourcolorfigs

A very promising start! Very good idea to use the GW-corsairs as a Sindbad-warband...
Cool, how you stick to rule No. 1.
I am looking forward to your project and the gangs to come.

DV

[Gluteus Maximus]

I like your Greeks especially. I took my son to see "Clash Of The Titans" the other day and I must say we both really enjoyed it.  Not a classic by any means but good fun and, for me at least, an improvement on the original.

After that and seeing your figures, I'm tempted to do some Greek heroes and monsters of my own now, even though it's a subject I've never really been into before.

Shouldn't be too much expense for a couple of SBH warbands 

[LeadAsbestos]

But if you do Slaine how can you resist breaking the rule and not getting the foundry Slaine?

Rule #1 is for sissies.

[pixelgeek]

We're stealing this idea! Can't wait to go home and poke through my own backlog for some warbands!

Ditto. This is the inspiration I need to paint up some warbands for my own pile of minis

[DonVoss]

There are two new rules added to my project:
-mix ranges wherever you can: it's not cool to do a gang out of the box (a helldorado Sarrasins-starter box may include superbe miniatures, but its dull to make a pure Sarrasins-gang out of it)...
-make the gangs too big: include spare models for variety and gimmicks for scenarioplay...

Today I finished my arthurian Gang. It's a high medivieval version of arthur and its knights.
Unfortunately I had to many figures for a standard Songs...-gang. But I just invented a new rule to the project, so its not a problem anymore...

The gang is sopposed to be the enemies of the saxons previously posted.

Sorry for the dark pictures (bad weather in Berlin...).



Here are the main characters of the story: lady of the lake, king arthur, merlin and of course the sword...





Some more characters...




I ve the "Songs of Arthur..."-pdf but have not studied it very much. So perhaps there are more things wich I have to add to the Arthur-part of the project.

DV

[Plynkes]

Lovely. Good idea using Cate Blanchett as the Lady of the Lake.

I know it's very fashionable to do "historical" Arthur these days in a Roman setting (which I think is cool too), but I really, really love the old-fashioned medieval romance version. When I was younger I devoured King Arthur stuff. Got the Penguin Mallory, translations of the various French Stuff, T.H. White etc (and played Pendragon for years - two generations of characters over about 40 game-years). This is very inspiring to me. Something I might have to look into myself.

What's in the Song of Arthur book, then? Worth getting, is it?

[cheetor]

What's in the Song of Arthur book, then? Worth getting, is it?

The SAM book is cute.  It has three sets each of Rosters, Items, Warband Advances and Scenarios: a set for each of the  High Medieval, Welsh King and Historical King settings.  Basically its a small seperate supplement for each version of the story.

It has rules for jousting, questing and for high powered magic users.    It obviously has stats for Merlin, the Lady of the Lake, Mordred etc.  Scenarios like drawing the sword from the stone and the like are all included.

I havent played any of it but I found it to be a good read.  It looks to me to be one of the most comprehensive SoBH supplements.

It certainly made me look at a whole pile of mounted knights that I have in a new light.  Just the sort of thing that Ganesha games are good for really.

For the price of the PDF (eiither $8 or $5, I cant remember) it is well worth buying if you enjoy SoBH I reckon.

[Gluteus Maximus]

Lovely. Good idea using Cate Blanchett as the Lady of the Lake.

I know it's very fashionable to do "historical" Arthur these days in a Roman setting (which I think is cool too), but I really, really love the old-fashioned medieval romance version. When I was younger I devoured King Arthur stuff. Got the Penguin Mallory, translations of the various French Stuff, T.H. White etc (and played Pendragon for years - two generations of characters over about 40 game-years). This is very inspiring to me. Something I might have to look into myself.

What's in the Song of Arthur book, then? Worth getting, is it?

I like the use of the GW King as a Mallory-type Arthur, as well as the model of the lovely Cate.

Song of Arthur is well worth a look. Written by Dan Mersey (that should be recommendation enough) and has options for all the various "historical" and fantasy versions of the legend. As Cheetor says, at a fiver it's well worth it.

I'm going to try the "Mallory" version myself, stealing DonVoss's idea for using the LOTR figures, which by pure fluke I have duplicates of just waiting for the right paint job 

[Axebreaker]

Thank you again for your motivating comments.
And I would be very happy to see some of that "stolen idea" warbands...

@rule no. 1
For me a big part of the joy of the project is: rule no. 1
But if you make your own bands feel free to see it more as a guideline...

I am not sure if this is the right place to post it, but it's a kind of "songs..."-gang anyway...

While I searched the mountain I found enough robot-models for a "Songs of Mutants and Deathray Guns"-gang...



I promise to finish my arthurians to return to the fantasy-thing again...

DV

I really like the guy with the Popeye forearms.

Cheers
Christopher

[fourcolorfigs]

I updated my blog with the first pics of my band. Only four done, but five more to follow!

http://four-color-figures.blogspot.com/2010/04/sbh-warband-challenge-first-finished.html

[dijit]

Really cool! I love the aurthurian gang. Great concept, well done.

[HRE Joseph III]

I decided to go of the beaten path for this challenge and do some fantasy Inuit. I figure that these would work for Cthulhu type games as well. Paint to come soon. Maybe tonight if I get around to it.

full explanation on my blog.
http://josephdragovich.blogspot.com/2010/04/chilling.html

-Joe