There's been a fair bit of activity at the club in recent months with people playing Lion Rampant. No problem there, but they've been also using the same figures for collective games using Hail Caesar. After a bit of deliberation I bought some nice 20x20x2mm bases from East Riding Miniatures and redid all my Vikings and Saxons. I had to think about it a little because I've got some Scots for SAGA to do, as well as far to many Perry WotR figures to get cracking on. So they're on the bases, but the flocking and decoration is yet to come. Still, I must get some time off work to actually put them through their paces (thank you Sean).

They clash at last!

So, after a bit of a gap, here’s another long-overdue post. Following on from painting the Gripping Beast Vikings I was working on, I managed to finish them off and eventually paint up an opposing force of Anglo-Saxons. The two sides share a drawer in GHQ, and eventually an argument spilled over into violence (likely over whether to fry their fish like good Aenglishmen or have them in warm milk like crazy Norsemen…). The results were seen on the field of tabletop.

After a bit of too-ing and fro-ing the two sides eventually approached each other

 

 

A ravens-eye view of the final approach

 

The Anglo-Saxon warlord with his eorldermen, on the right, prepares to tear up the side of the hill into the body of the milky-fish eating invaders

 

We know action’s really happening when the SAGA dice come out. Not just cheesy insults now!

The Eorldermen and their boss take matters into their own hands and take the fight to the Vikings

The bruising contest just before its sudden conclusion. The Vikings didn’t carry this day, but after conceding that fish taste better with chips when they’re fried, they vowed to have it out with those pesky aenglishemen again at some point.