Crusade: Lion Rampant game

[Atheling]

If you somehow just randomly have a spare evening in Växjö you are more then welcome to join.. 

Actually, Sweden is a place I'd love to visit so, although it's unlikely that I'd make it to a game, it's not beyond the realm of probability  .

Darrell.

[Engel]

A small unit of Turkish Ghulams.



Many more pictures at: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2015/05/turkish-ghulams.html



And combining these with the previously painted small unit I can now muster a standard sized unit in HC.



As green being the colour of the Turks in Medieval Total War II, a game I played all to mutch... I thought I should try to capture a little of that feeling and use a loot of green on this unit. 

The miniatures are mostly Old Glory but with two Perry (in the whole unit that is) as OG sold these in packs of 10. They have swapped horses to better fit into the unit and I think it works rather well.

[Engel]

 




Jihad...
And also some Varghednar and some Ruses for my Norsemen collection.



Gripping Beast should really love me.

[commissarmoody]

They painted up pretty well.

[Engel]

Thanks Commissarmoody.

And just to calm you down... Not all of those horsemen above are mine. My friend Johan needen some cavalry to, so I ordered some to him also. But its make for an more impressive picture to have the total order in one picture.





There are allways room for more light cavalry and its hard to argue with robes and turban in a Saracen force.  

A small unit of Bedouin light cavalry.
More pictures at: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2015/06/bedouin-light-cavalry.html



The miniatures are Old Glory. I have added extra trowing spears in the form of straws from a plastic broomstick.
I like their almost comical faces and thinks they ad a lot of charachter and makes the miniatures way funnier to paint.

[Engel]

Here are some small inhapitans of some village or town. They could be used to pimp the gaming table or maybe include them in a unit till fill up the numbers.



Many more pictures at: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2015/06/saracens.html

[Engel]

This is just a unit I had to get. Cataphract Camel cavalry...

But my idea is that a very rich Sultan wanted to have a unit honour Guards, dressed in finest clothes with most expensive armour and most exotic animals to ride. Used in parade, showing of to foreign dignitary to impress and so on.



Many more pictures at: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2015/06/saracen-cataphract-camel-guards.html

[Neldoreth]

Excellent stuff here, the volume is inspiring!

thanks
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[Engel]

Big thanks Neldereth.


Its starting to get a bit heavy to carry around and time consuming just to deploy the forces on the table...

[Byblos]

Very original and very good painting !

[Paint Pig]

Love them camels Engel, keep up the great work.

[Phil Portway]

The camels are gorgeous Engel, Quality brush work, as ever 

[Paul]

All nice but those camels are lovely!!! 

[Engel]

Thanks guys, I really appreciate it.



Last week my friend Håkan and I had another great game of Hail Caesar.
The scenario wee decided to play was that one force would be the attacker and the defender would have 75% of the points, I think this was an old Warhammer scenario. We decided to play 8 rounds.
We managed to gather 708points for the Franks and this gave me 531 points for my Saracen force.

We did some point adjustments to the units as lets face it, the point system aint really balanced.

Units with:
0 in Moral save gets -1 point cheaper.
6+ Moral save, no adjustments.
5+ Moral save, cost 2 points more
4+ Moral save, cost 6 points more.

This wont make it perfect but at least somewhat better. Its a small simple adaptation that feels right.


Here are the pictures and the battle report from the game: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.se/2015/07/crusade-battle-hail-caesar-aar.html

[janner]

Impressive spread