Wherein I paint Game of Thrones. Wolfswood rangers 13/3

[HappyChappy439]

Welcome back! And nice to see your Starks in action!

How do you find AoM to play?

[Ogrob]

Welcome back! And nice to see your Starks in action!

How do you find AoM to play?

I wrote a little reflection in the Age of Magic thread earlier this week, but in brief I really enjoy it. It changes up SAGA in a positive way, and we haven't found any terrible imbalances yet.

The dynamic of the game is a little different, there is more list building to ponder compared to the other universes, and magic is a little bit like rolling extra saga dice during the turn instead of at the start of the turn.

So far so good, people have had a good time coming up with themes for the different factions. I'm probably going to bash together a ranger style army over the summer holiday.

[Ogrob]

My new Fireforge Northmen turned up the other day from their kickstarter. I got a bunch of boxes not knowing exactly what I wanted to do with them, but hey, plastics!

First impressions are alright, detail and sculpts are solid, better than other Fireforge offerings. However, I would have loved more choice of heads, and was a bit disappointed that they reuse heads between the infantry and cavalry especially. The size is better than I had hoped, I was worried they would be too big to combine well with Oathmark and Frostgrave, but they seem like they will do fine.

Overall I would say they are not quite up there with Victrix new vikings, but they are a step above Fireforge's old range.

I snapped some size comparisons:

Archers first, Perry Agincourt, Claymore Crecy English, Fireforge Northman, Frostgrave Soldier, Conquest Medieval Archer


Cavalry:
Fireforge Templar with Perry arms, Gripping Beast Dark Age Cavalry, Fireforge Northman, Perry Agincourt Knight


Infantry:
Frostgrave Barbarian, Victrix Viking, Perry Agincourt French, Frostgrave Soldier, Fireforge Northman, Fireforge Teuton Infantry, Claymore Pavisier, Oathmark Human


My first plan for these is to use the armoured horses and put Perry Agincourt knights on them. There are a number of snazzy cloaks in the Northmen kits that I'm eyeing for this unit as well. After that, we'll see. Probably a unit of spears.

Speaking of spears, I tinkered a little more with the Oathmark/GW Empire solider hybrids and replaced their spears with more regular looking ones.


What do you think?

[HappyChappy439]

Welcome back!

Thanks for the overview on the new Fireforge range, I was worried they'd turn out being a bit too chunky compared to the other plastic ranges!

I'm liking the Oathmark/Empire-spear lads, they've got a good militia/irregulars look to them, could probably even get away with using them as some of ol' Gregor Clegane's followers

[Munindk]

The poses are still great and the simpler spears are perfect

[Psychopomp]

I notice the Fireforge Northmen are about the same height as the Frostgrave and Oathmark humans...when the latter are on thicker basing.  But then, the Northmen seem to have a better upright posture.  It's still a little hard for me to tell.

[Ogrob]

They are a little bigger, and noticeably wide across the chest compared to Oathmark/Frostgrave. Within my tolerance.

[Ogrob]

First prototype of a new unit of Heavy Cavalry. Perry rider on Fireforge horse, with Fireforge cloak. Extra horse armour from the Perry agincourt set. Whadd'ya think?

[HappyChappy439]

I like it! Is the padded horse-armour from the new Fireforge set too?

[Ogrob]

Yeah, it's molded on the horses for the Northmen Cavalry. The chainmail is from the Perry kit.

[Ogrob]

One more bits and pieces update; the Fireforge Northmen kickstarter included resin wolf head round shields and I bought a bunch of them just in case they turned out nice.

The resin from the kickstarter is very questionable, very soft and the character models have obvious 3d-printer lines still on the casts but the shields are fine. I decided to grab all the soldiers with heater shields and Schieldsmiede transfers, and replace them with Fireforge shields.

This is how they turned out, what do you think?

[HappyChappy439]

Liking the shields, and they're looking good on the unit itself! Though, it might just be the lighting, but the wolf design itself might be a little dark, which hides the detail a little!

[rumacara]

Just came across this thread and what a great one.
Love the kitbashing and GS on your miniatures.
Will follow with great interest.

[Ogrob]

Thank you!

HappyChappy, yeah, I can see that. The photos make it worse, but they are dark. Will have a think about some highlights.

[AKULA]

Love the new mounted figure, looking forward to seeing a whole unit of them.

The shields look the part on the northmen, but I’d echo HC’s comment about some highlights, great job though