On Bloody Ground: Stippendari and added Banners

My banners finally arrived so I've added one to the previously completed Foot Knights (Dismounted Milities), and also completed a unit of Stippendari; Norman mercenary troops:

Dismounted Milities

Stippendari

Next up will be some characters and smaller units of crossbowmen and archers!

On Bloody Ground: Norman Foot Knights

First unit for my Norman army for the excellent On Bloody Ground game by WIP Games, Norman Foot Knights (Dismounted Milities):

Units in OBG can only be a max of 15% of your total force, so in a standard 2000pts game the most expensive unit you can run is 300pts... which is exactly what 20 of these with large shields costs haha

Star Wars Legion: Inferno Squad and Imperial Special Forces

 A few more cheeky additions to my Galactic Empire Army:

Inferno Squad

Imperial Special Forces

A different way to run the army, this with Iden Versio at the helm and relying on accurate blaster fire rather than the wall of doom that is the Dark Troopers haha

He-Man Miniatures Game: The Evil Horde Wave 4!

 Been rather busy this week so its taken till now to get the last of these finished and ready for gaming:

Hordak and Shadow Weaver

Katra and Grizzlor

Evil Trees!

Horde Troopers

Horde Wraiths

Superb minis as we have come to expect from Archon's MoTU line and i cant wait to get some games in with them down the club.

Conquest: Fireforged!

Here's the last of my current stockpile of Dweghom painted, a unit of Fireforged:

A second ranged unit for the force, shorter ranged than the Ballistae but more powerful shots hehe. Dweghom can make quite a significant gunline but I'm going with one shooting unit per warband as all the gunz is not my style to be honest.

This gives me 1000pts points painted now, and I'm looking forward to a game on Wednesday with both sides fully done as my City states opponent is also fully painted and raring to go! 

Conquest: Hold Warriors

 Next up for the Dweghom are a unit of Hold Warriors:

The basic unit type for the army, starting off as just a bit tanky but able to be buffed up to something quite filthy haha... I will need another block of these down the line to camp on objectives!

Spotlight: WIP Games and Miniatures

Something a little different today as last night i got to play On Bloody Ground - The Norman Conquest, with my friend Dave Toone, Co-founder of WIP Games and Miniatures.

Dave, along with his son Dan have been working on a modern historical wargames ruleset for the last few years, and now have their first title "The Norman Conquest for preorder and delivery is expected sometime in the next week or so.

They have been posting regular updates on their facebook page with battle reports and rules breakdowns etc, and also their vast swathe of beautifully painted armies!

So here are a few pics of the game, id not seen Dave for a few months so a lot of the evening was spent chatting away haha, but we got through three turns before having to pack up:

 

For our game we had a matchup of Vikings (Commanded by Dave) arrayed against Normans (Commanded by me!) in a standard 2000pts game. Dave went through deployment and army setup before we cracked on with turn 1!

What sets this apart from other similar sized games such as Kings of War or Hail Caesar is the use of command points to interrupt the standard flow of the game to allow you to steal the initiative from your opponent and force decisive combats etc.. these are a limited resource and will go quickly, more so if your general gets caught haha.

My game was great fun and I'm looking forward to getting my own Norman or Spanish Christian army built and painted... The lads next book is covering the Reconquista era and all the colorful forces that entails! Overall On Bloody ground is heartly recommended for history buffs and casual gamers alike, you wont be disappointed  in it.