First Post, my current campaign

[Teshub]

Among the many human races in my homebrew world there is a city-state called Grunevald, which dominates a league of other city-sates, some orc and some human. These 'half-orcs' or 'orc-loving bastards' are hated and feared among other nations of men.

In this scenario my PC's were travelling with a logistics caravan from Grunevald, along the way they were harried by orc savages, desperate for food and loot.

The ambush was great fun!!



Wary soldiers raised the alert and the skirmish began with a hail of javelins and arrows.



Led by massive Orogs, the raiders were ready to pounce.



The orc raiders easily overwhelmed the caravan scouts.






The 2 PC's here are easy to spot in the first photo, they are both blonde haired Northmen, travelling as mercenaries hired to protect the caravan. Ironically they have no love for those they protect but it was their only way to travel through hostile orc lands. Having reached the league's frontier they were able to desert this caravan, in hopes of tracking down their enemy, a treacherous Grunevaldian Officer that they have sworn to kill!

[Erny]

Wow, loving the old grenadier stuff. Are they available anywhere at the moment, specifically the adventures? There is a lot of other manufactures that I just don't really know as well. If you ever get the time a run down of your collection and where it's from would be awesome.

Amazing terrain too, very modular.

[TheMightyFlip]

Fantastic pictures, must be qaulity to play with those models, well done, and welcome btw.

[General Roos]

Really cool and very inspiring. Makes me want to play fantasy again. 

[Mr.J]

Wow that is a gorgeous game! A very great introduction piece for LAF. Welcome to the forum.

[Teshub]

Thank you all. You have an amazing message board here, I wish I had found you guys long ago  

Erny, I have had the Grenadiers since the mid 80's but I do know of a site in Italy that recasts and sells many of them: http://www.mirliton.it/

The full run down would be hard but most of the well armored caravan men and orcs are older Grenedier models, the ambushing orcs are Reaper minis, there are a couple Mithril minis (oop)  a couple more from Foundry minis and the yak are plastics I bought from a zoo souvenir shop.

The wagons and all the other terrain, I have been making over the years and you are right on, every piece is part of a modular collection that I can rearrange in countless ways.  That ambush had over 150 elements (including the lead miniatures).

[dijit]

Absolutely beautiful! Lovely painting, miniatures and background story. Just out of interest what rules were you using?

[Teshub]

Just out of interest what rules were you using?

Mongoose Conan d20 rules from 2003.  My world is low magic, low level with quick and bloody combat and these rules for sorcery and combat fit perfectly with what I've been doing since 1991.  In fact many of my homebrew rules for Sorcery and Combat were incorporated into this ruleset so it was like a hand-in-glove moment when I found them.

Since 1991 I've used 2nd Edition AD&D and 3.5 Edition AD&D as well.

[Thantsants]

Superb looking table - love the little world you've created there! 

Those horse riding orcs are way cool!

What did you use for the cliffs - been thinking about something similar for the table edges for my Orc's Drift project.

[Colonel Tubby]

Great board and game, look forward to the rest of the campaign.

Wow, loving the old grenadier stuff. Are they available anywhere at the moment, specifically the adventures?

You can also try looking here from Mega Minis for some old Guthrie Grenadier:

http://freeboardgamesnow.com/fantasyjulieguthriegrenadier.aspx

[DeafNala]

EXCELLENT looking terrain & minis! I had tried introducing terrain with my erstwhile AD&D group, but it lost the battle for table space to the chips & dips. C'est la vie, eh?!

[Bloodysword]

beautiful figures, beautiful terrain, can't wait to see more

[Erny]

Yep I know of the two sites mentioned for grenadier minis, its the adventures that I want and are OOP now.  I even have quite a few of the ones in the picture that I'm interested in, only thing is 11 year old erny didn't take very good care of them back in the day.

I'll go out on a limb and suggest the cliffs are blue foam Thantsants, I had been thinking about clifs for a while and small but stackable may well be the way. Excellent stuff Teshub.

[phreedh]

That wasn't half bad for a first post. =) Welcome!

[Teshub]

I'll go out on a limb and suggest the cliffs are blue foam Thantsants, I had been thinking about clifs for a while and small but stackable may well be the way. Excellent stuff Teshub.

You are correct Erny it is blue insulation foam and I have several rectangular pieces that I can stack up or use as bases to make vignettes and scenes during the adventures.