SAGA: My Saga begins - 1st point of Hearthguard

The next Point for my Gotlanders - the first 4 Hearthguards, all 4 Figures are from Gripping Beast. If playing my Gotlanders as Anglo-Danes (so I can use Daneaxes) there will be 2 units of Hearthguard, 6 Figures with normal weapons and 6 more with the mentioned Daneaxes. Accordingly, here are 4 Guards...

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SAGA: My Saga begins - 2nd unit of warriors

After a break that lasted a bit longer than expected (job and family left almost no time for the hobby), at least here are one more point for my Gotlanders - 8 more warriors. This time the figures are a mixture of Gripping Beast and V&V, the latter are made from resin and very cleanly cast ones...

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Spielbericht / AAR: Black Powder AWI - Somewhere near Harlem Heights

Last Friday we had a small game using Black Powder rules, which was intended to bring 2 new players to the rules. So we set up nothing fancy - a simple meeting engagement with small woods, a sunken road, fences and so on. Both sides had equal forces and we didn´t use special rules for the different...

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SAGA: My Saga begins - 1st unit of warriors

The next part of my future Gotlanders - the first point of 8 warriors, miniatures are Gripping Beast, Shieldwall and Wargames Factory. This is also my first attempt to depict damage and dust on the shields and as you can easily see, I still have to practice a lot, but that´s life ;-) And here are...

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SAGA: My SAGA begins - Archers

One of my next projects, which will certainly keep me busy for the next few months, is the painting of a troop for SAGA. Since I had been in the reenactment for a long time and had built up a gotlandic representation for the beginning of the 11th century by means of grave finds, my first army will...

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