Medieval Scandinavia

[von Lucky]

Nice work on the shields.

[Dr. The Viking]

You two are making a sevret ploy to drag me into this wonderful nordic medieval noir!

[pocoloco]

Wonderful looking army, great job! 

How many warbands or units have you planned to make?

[janner]

You two are making a sevret ploy to drag me into this wonderful nordic medieval noir!

Quit fighting it then 

[Dalauppror]

Exellent looking units Jonas !!!

[Engel]

Thanks.

I just finished a new unit of mounted crossbowmen.
The miniatures are from Fireforge games.
I used some of their less armoured infantry arms to get a less armoured feeling then someone riding around with the same equipment as a fully armed knight... And I tossed in some round shields just for the sake of it. 

By basing some of them individual I can without a problem use them in Lion Rampant besides Hail Caesar that is the main idea.

More pictures at: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2014/12/beridna-skyttar.html

[Dalauppror]

Looking very good !

[pocoloco]

Very nice unit!

Great choice making them less armoured.

[Engel]

Thanks guys.

Dr. The Viking > Maybe I can tease you further with some new pictures... 



I thought It was about time to take a new army picture.
Many more pictures of the army at: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2014/12/medieval-scandinavian-army.html

[Captain Blood]

That's a great looking force, and you've built it really quickly (by my snail-like standards anyway) 
Well done!

[Engel]

Thanks Captain.



The speed is all in about cutting corners, trying to skip details that wont be seen on the table. A closer look will show where I have skipped details. I have tried to only use a little more detailing on things that are easily noticed, things like shields or highlighting a face or a hand. And using inks or shades to speed things up.

Its a hard thing to balance the level on detail with the time it takes to paint it. On what level you whant to achieve.

The bonus is an army in a relative short time but the negative things is that no one of them can stand up to a close inspection.


Its a technique I have tried to improve for some time now as I have notet I will never have time to paint all the miniatures of all the settings and games I take a fancy at...  

[mikeygees]

Awe...some!!!

[northtroll]

Oh now you've all gone and done it! I'm tempted to do this in 40mm. I must be nuts... or a wargamer! I watched Arn today, very inspiring stuff!

[pocoloco]

The speed is all in about cutting corners [...] Its a technique I have tried to improve for some time now as I have notet I will never have time to paint all the miniatures of all the settings and games I take a fancy at...  

You should teach me your techinque, it seems

Your force looks great, it could win you a kingdom for sure 

[Engel]

Last week I visited Stockholm and managed to play a game with Michael "Dalauppror" and some of his club members.

We used the Lion Rampant rules and the theme was set for a game of "Håtuna leken" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A5tuna_games) a time on conflict here in Sweden arount the year of 1300 with power strugle for the crown of three brothers.

I was invited to join in on their campaign representing the Danish house of Hvide and was invited to a wedding fiest.
In the last game they played the kings brother Valdemar had been bride robbing and intended to marry the lady him self, a furries King had sent nobles from the house of Ulvåsa and Oxenstierna to crash the wedding.



Here is the link for the AAR: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2015/01/the-wedding-crash-hatunaleken-aar.html

Some of you might allready have seen Michaels AAR here on LAF so this is from the angle of the Danes.