So I'm pleased to announce my new project. Though actually we’re here talking about reactivation and not a new beginning. You know (or maybe not) I’ve had a very strong Ancient time in my wargaming career, collecting large armies, playing big games and dreaming of even more armies and of course more games. It was a good time but to be honest I never did manage to paint a complete Ancient army, it was just too much. I can be really enduring and tenacious at painting, though it is nothing what makes happy Mrs. Witchheimer, but I need variety of themes to keep my painting motivation. Painting an army of 300 almost identical models is a torture to me and so it is probably (or surely) the reason why I’ve given up the Ancients for Pulp and other sort of adventure wargaming.
here the proof, I really have some Ancient miniatures:
Greeks, no gaming plans on those at the moment, is just to show off
But nothing is final and it looks like I’m back at Ancient topic. At least for the time being. Thanks god and my former madness, I’ve still have hunderts of various Ancient miniatures like Celts, Germans, Greeks, Thracians, Assyrians, Dacians and several small fractions like Skythians , Nemedians and whatever. Unfortunately I was stupid enough to sell all my Romans, Republican and Middle ones. Really all of them. All gone. No one bloody Roman in my collection. Damn.
Anyway, I’m starting my first adventuring Ancient project. The idea is to use the T&T rules, I hope my friend Driscoles will support me with some ideas for additions to his rules, just to make sure they will work for Ancient time. And I’ve decided to start with
Ancient Germans. The good old Copplestone Foundry miniatures are just too good and it would be a pity to let them in the shelves. Okay, still no Romans but that’s for later.
The idea is to create some gangs, kind of adventuring parties, no rank&file but different figures with different weapons and let them running on a table for quests, fighting the enemies (need Romans), wild animals, and perhaps other Germans. I will need a village for Germans, a forest for Animals and a camp for Romans.
The timeline -
at the beginning of the 1st century AD, before the battle of the Teutoburg Forest, I'd say
7 AD.
My table will be (yes, that’s Grimm in the background, making photos):
my first gang of Germans will be:
These are Foundry
Chatti models but in my case they’re supposed to be
Cherusci, a tribe coming from the northwestern part of Germany, somewhere around of contemporary Bielefeld, just the corner where our moderators Lt.Hazel and Poliorketes come from. A wild part of country. No personal hygiene, no usage of hair care products. A dirty bunch of barbarians. No home, nothing sacred. Btw, they’re not from village, they’re just passing through. The big haary guy in the middle is the chieftain, I will call him
Hazelius...
The painted models are the old painting jobs made back in those glorius days. The painting is not good at all, so they will be repainted. I think, the whole bunch is a nice mix of different archetypes and weapons. I've just remembered, I will need at least a bowman as well.
That’s all for today, now I’m back to painting desk. Tomorrow I will tell you more about the dwellers of the village, by pure chance they come from the region where now the Prof is living...
04 March 2007, 06:44:19 PM