WWI Jaegers, Gondorians, Victrix French Line and Dragon Rampant Game: Men versus Goblins

Hello Distinguished Viewer,


Today, we have  number of miniature paint jobs completed and a bloody battle using the Dragon Rampant rule.


First up are eighteen Wargames Foundry WWI German Jaegers. 

Here, they are looking the other direction.  They'd paint faster if they didn't wear those damned packs.

Here are six Gondorian archers.  They were a gift from Stan, a miniature enthusiast who hates GW bases.

I think they look better without the big plastic pedestals.



 Here's five more.  The shields are a real whore to get right.

 Here they are fighting some Cthulhu-like prepainted creature that I rebased.

 A RAFM Roman and two out of production Bretonians. 

 I think the Bretonians will be completely discontinued, now that stupid GW killed the "Old World".

 Here's a little scenery litter I finished.  Some resin barrels of unknown manufacture and a couple of those walls of weapons you see in movies, before the hero's do a musical montage posing with guns and loading green bags with random guns and ammo.

 

 Here are some used French I bought off of Xenophon.  You may know Xenophon from TMP.

All I've done is rebase them.  Xeno had them multi-based on large wooden bases.

Here are a few more marching into battle.  If you look closely you may see one of Napoleon's Marshals behind them.

Now on to some Dragon Rampant.  Men vs Goblins.  The men brought three units of strong infantry and some heavy horsemen. 

 The goblin force consisted of three Ogres, two measly units of goblins, and a couple giant spiders.

Ready to smash the green beasts into mush my brave men move forward quickly.

The left wing has no fear of three stupid ogres.

As we march, we find out the goblin creatures are armed with bows.

and the spiders crash into the lead element.

 We shake off the bugs, but lose some more troops.

 With the bugs out of the way, they charge on to kill half the goblins.

 But sadly they are wiped out by the goblin marksmen.   Ok, plan B, avoid the goblins and take out the ogres.  The brave horsemen charge the ogres.

The horsemen fail to kill any ogres.

 So the infantry try and get punished as well.

The depleted cavalry try to charge he goblins instead.

The ogres keep killing my men.  So the men run away.

The goblins have wiped out the cavalry.  Only one unit left and they allow the goblins to put arrows in themselves and run away.

Goblin park.

Till next time, when I'll have a more minis completed.  There's at least 30 or 40 guys who just need some sand and flock.


Love and Kisses,
Baconfat

Dacians, Rus, and Dragon Rampant Action!, or the Terrible Misadventure of the Mindless Charge.

Hello Fine Viewer,

I didn't get a lot of minis done for today.  Done is actually a relative term; I'm out of Super Glue and no one has any flock and their shields aren't attached yet.

First is a handful of Warlord brand Dacians. 

The standard bearers are tipsy models and I will eventually have to replace the pole with harder metal.

Warlord Dacians with spears.

 A couple Gripping Beast brand Rus horn blowers.

An Uncle Mike brand Exorcist.

I have no clue which company made the little resin grave thing.





 

On to some action, the maniacal genius Dave and I got together and tried out Osprey's Dragon Rampant rules.  We went for 24 point armies; Dwarves vs. Barbarians.

The first game Dave brought a very small, but beautifully painted force of GW's LotR Dwarves:  Archers, Elite foot, and Heavy Offensive foot.

And Dave, also brought this damned scary "Ancestral Guardian" giant smashy dwarf gollem.

I brought three units of Bellicose foot, two units of plain jane heavy foot, and a unit of heavy cavalry (centaurs).

 My plan, as attacker, was to soften up the three units of dwarves with my expendable Bellicose foot, then finish the short bearded beasts off with my three heavy units.  Then we take their gold and get drunk.  Despite it's simplicity, it's pure genius and can't possibly fail.

The army moves forward at a quick pace.

Some initiative problems have allowed us to mess up our organized lines.  Did no one read the plan?

Two bellicose units have almost made to the dwarven line, but the third is dicking around in the rough ground.

Uncontrollably one group of bellicose charge the elite foot.  They lose six or seven models and are annihilated. 

The centaurs charge the same unit of dwarves. 

One of the two remaining bellicose units countercharge the giant smashy Guardian.

The Guardian backs off from combat.

 The elite foot also lose combat and fall back.

The dwarven axes charge and are counter charged by my successful cavalry.  The battle might be won already.

Nope, the Axes make dog food out of the centaurs.

And the bellicose foolishly charge the Guardian again.  He's now smashed seven of them into a fine pulpy barbarian mush.

The five remaining guys and two centaurs are then charged and shot to death.

Terrific, my front line consists of a small pack of idiots looking for shiny things in the rocks.

At least the guardian is slowly wandering off the field, as my heavy foot advances.

Wow, they are really activating a lot now.

Huzzah!!! the daft bellicose morons have made it out of the rough ground.  They did just in time to blasted into oblivion by the dwarf archers.

Notice the bellicose foot are missing.  As my heavy foot clash with the dwarf axes.

We kill one and they kill four

One more round of brutal dwarf archery and the illiterate horde flees the field in disgrace.

Here can see the dwarves cheering our quick departure.  Thank God, they don't have cavalry to run us down.  The dwarves killed just over 40 of us and the other 26 ran away. 

We killed 3, yes 3, and only 3 dwarves.

Till next time, beloved reader, when I hope to bring you stories of dead dwarves.

love and kisses,
Baconfat






















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