Romans are fun, but all this recent Midgard activity has got me wanting to try my Middle Earth armies as well.
The main stumbling block being basing. So many bases. I can, it seems, quite easily build 450 point armies for Elves and Orcs. For Dwarves I can hit 400 without painting anymore troops by adding an allied giant bear as a Monstrosity. Of course I've got over 2 dozen dwarf warriors in bare metal still.
I didn't think I had enough elves, and was hesitant about dwarves, but if you make your Elf or Dwarf king a Level 4 hero and tool him up with legendary weapons, armour 4, and maybe magic. Add in a couple of level 3 heroes, possibly a magic user it's very easy to hit 450 points. Of course with Midgard you can't exceed 1/3rd of your points on heroes.
The orcs however, need a lot of bases.
I have some sheets of plastic board used for theater posters that make great bases because they don't warp. So I painfully cut out about 20 of these and spray painted them, then glued on cut up fridge magnets.
For the Dwarves I thought that two ranks of 5 looked better with their smaller 20mm bases. So I'vemade six stands with this configuration.
But for the elite, two-handed sword, axe, and warhammer wielding Hearth Guards I felt the wider spacing of two ranks of four looked more sensible.
I've also had a rummage in the Bitz Box and Spare Bases Box made some markers. Extra quivers from the Wargames Atlantic Goths glued on 25mm mdf rounds make nice "Shot" markers.
Extra swords make "Winning" markers.
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| The Hearth Guard are winning |
I also stopped by the Big Box craft store and bought some metal beads for Mighty Deeds and Reputation Tokens. I like the rings, they remind me of Bernard Cornwell's
Winter King Trilogy in which Derfal talks about beating the spear heads of defeated foes into rings.
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| Baldur Foe-Smiter has 3 Mighty Deeds left |
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