SAGA: Fatigue Markers

No new unit but some fatigue markers instead.

I´ve seen these beautiful vultures and nearly instantly had this old Western in my mind: "Showdown" with it´s german title "Die Geier warten schon" - something like "The vultures are already waiting"

And as small version for the Sweetwater:

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SAGA: Berserkers!

As a supplement for my Gotlanders, if I want to field them as Vikings instead of Anglo-Danes, there is one unit that must not be missing of course - the notorious Berserker!

Miniatures from Gripping Beast but with a little bit of converting - the all don´t use shields!
So if you look a bit closer at these guys and remember the one Gallic gladiator from the movie Gladiator, you may find some similarity ;-)

So I would call my force of Gotland for SAGA completed for now, a picture of my complete force will follow in a few days.

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Another point of Hearthguards for my little force of Gotland Vikings

And once again another point of Hearthguards for my Gotlanders, this time with mixed weapons, so I can field 2 units of 6 figures each - one with Daneaxes and one with 1handes weapons and shields.

Shields again all freehands, miniatures are Gripping Beast.

This will bring my little force to 6 points for SAGA, the next miniatures are just for adding some variation, so I can play them as real Vikings, if I want.

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SAGA: Next Hearthguards for my Gotland force - 4 Daneaxe

The next point for my force of Gotlanders - 4 Hearthguard with Daneaxes.
Miniatures are V&V Miniatures, which are just a real joy to paint and are super detailed and well researched. Shields as before all freehand.

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SAGA: Warlord and standard bearer for my Gotland Vikings

The Warlord for my little force of Gotland Vikings - ready to go on viking, accompanied not only by his hearthguard, warriors and so on, but by a standard bearer too.

The are both based separately so the standard bearer can join a unit but I also made a movement tray to group both together.

Shield and flag are both freehands again, the flag is based on a motive of a Gotland picture stone.

The movement tray:

And here the force, as it is ready for some games now - 4 points. More to follow over the next few weeks.

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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 with normal hand-weapons and shields; as with all my SAGA-Figures before: all shields are freehand:

As this will be the last post for this year, I wish you all God Jul / a wonderful festive season and a Happy New Year; or as we say in Germany to the latter: Einen Guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr!

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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 with many outstanding details; a real joy to paint them!

Without further ado, here are the pictures:

First an overview:

The 4 Gripping Beast figures:

And here are the 4 figures from V&V:

Next one will be the first unit Heathguards - I hope this time it will not be that long again before this unit gets ready ;-)

Hope you enjoy it!

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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 the pictures.

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