Björn Grendel's Unberogenes. Chariots and Village. Month five, wild card.

 

Penultimate month of this long marathon. Someone said more of a decathlon, considering all the skillset needed to pack an army for this challenge.. I must say he was right. The thing that bothers me the most is that I have not yet learned to take decent photos of my models, who always seem badly painted in the images, but so it is.

This May, to take a little break from muscles, tattoos and shields, I brought a relatively simple project. if I understood correctly it could have legitimately counted as rank and file but to be on the safe side ilI decided to play the wild card. 

So war chariots!

To complete the collection, these sculpts are again Mark Copplestone's from Mirliton. Old sculpts but new casts (bought in January for the challenge). They are beautiful models, in my opinion, but they were missing something. So I added some ropes and arranged the reins, and painted the horses in different colors to add variety. I also added decorative shields on the sides of the chassis, so as to keep with my usual freehand theme and provide some extra color to the models.

A big problem with this kit, in my opinion, is the lack of a second crewman, fortunately the space on the cart is abundant and I had planned to add another man, so I had purchased a few more models. after thinking for a long time I decided to provide the carts with a charioteer and an archer each, as historically appropriate, even if not perfectly consistent in terms of gameplay, but who cares: RULE OF COOL! 

I therefore took an extra archer, I converted one of the two original charioteers to a shooter and drew a noble on foot from the pile of infantry. So the best equipped warrior could represent a special character or a hero when needed.

The bases were made in the usual way. Painted and highlighted construction sand, this time with the addition of some pieces of bark to simulate flat rocks emerging from the ground (a geography inspired by my homeland) and the usual commercial tufts with the addition of frayed rope and fur from an old pair of gloves.

I'll leave myself some wiggle room, maybe one day I'll add a bundle of spare javelins or maybe some loot bags or supplies... We'll see. I still have a few cards to play before it's over.

Pointwise these two single models count as:

8 marauder horsemen with heavy armour 376pt

I didn't find any references to war chariots in the manual Jaakko lent me to make this list, so I decided to prox wildly. I can Always use them as chariots in mi games, thought.

You thought that was it? You couldn't be more wrong! Since I was fed up with not playing and always having to justify myself as an ex-player, since after painting all this new army I really wanted to use it somehow.... I finally decided to build myself an old school table to play on with my kids and wife.  So I bought cloth and boards and covered them in green FOR NOW. For now I'm happy to use some old woods that I already had, I built and painted a village of huts and fields and a log fort to go with it. In the next few months I intend to make hills, roads, cliffs, more buildings and woods and maybe a river, I don't know yet, to further furnish the field (which is regulation, of course, 1800*1200mm)... My plan is very ambitious and one day I will transform the cloth board into an XPS foam board with a fixed geography of some kind (but it will almost certainly represent the forests of the North). Without further ado, let's let the images speak for themselves ..

Dont judge my shop storage...

Yes, my war room Is a mess..

I think that Is more than enough for this time... Next and final month will be MOAR WARRIORS!

Stay tuned and stay oldschool 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼