Rohan vs Isengard 700 pts Army Lists Rohan (Mayor): Warband 1: Theoden w/ Horse (Leader) 8x Riders of Rohan w/ 1 Banner 4x Rohan Royal Guard w/ Horses and Throwing Spears Warband 2: Aragorn w/ Horse and Elven Cloak Legolas w/ Horse and Elven Cloak Gimli w/ Elven Cloak Isengard (Onod): Warband 1: Saruman Grima Orc w/ Banner 6x Orcs w/ Shield 6x Orcs w/ Spear 3x Crebain Warband 2: Orc Captain w/ Shield 1x Orc w/ Shield 1x Orc w/ Spear 2x Orc w/ Two-Handed Weapon 2x Orc w/ Bow Demolition Team w/ 2 Flaming Brands Warband 2: Orc Captain w/ Shield 1x Orc w/ Shield 1x Orc w/ Spear 1x Orc w/ Two-Handed Weapon 2x Orc w/ Bow Demolition Team w/ 2 Flaming Brands Game Type Capture and Control: Both forces are fighting over 5 different objectives (1 in the middle, and 4 arranged equidistant from the centre in a cross shape). Once a model takes an objective, it remains in that players control until an enemy model moves into base contact with the objective, and shifts control back.  Once a ...

  Rohan Vs Mordor 700 pts Army Lists Rohan (Mayor): Warband 1: Theoden w/ Horse (Leader) 8x Riders of Rohan w/ 1 Banner 4x Rohan Royal Guard w/ Horses and Throwing Spears Warband 2: Aragorn w/ Horse and Elven Cloak Legolas w/ Horse and Elven Cloak Gimli w/ Elven Cloak Mordor (Old Toby): Warband 1: Witch King w/ 3 Might, 17 Will, 3 Fate, Morgul Crown and Horse 3x Morgul Knights 4x Black Numenoreans 4x Morannon Orcs w/ Spears and shields Warband 2: Shagrat w/ Heavy Armour and Shield of Cirith Ungol 2x Morgul Knight 4x Black Numenoreans 4x Morannon Orcs w/ Spears and shields Warband 3: Kardush the Firecaller 9x Morannon Orcs w/ Shield and Spear 1x Morannon Orc w/ Banner 2x Mordor Orcs Game Type Retrieval: Each player is attempting to take the objective from their opponents side of the board, and move it to their own. Both Armies will be trying to defend their objective, whilst pushing to take the enemies. The Game will end on a dice roll of a 1 or a 2 once one of the armies is broken....

  I'm back with more Burrows and Badgers today- as I have been painting up my leaders for the 2 warbands I am working on. They're quite different, but both ended up being great fun to paint. The Otter is leading the warband which my  Platypus and Frog  are in- and so I wanted to keep the blue that is tying this group together going. I decided not to paint any of the Otters clothes blue though- he's in quite simple clothing and armour, and to give a blue shirt or trousers felt a bit flamboyant for this miniature- I have in mind more of a Robin Hood style outlaw for his character, hiding out in the woods and making do with what he has. The obvious choice was to therefore paint his fish in the blue which I used before hand (you will note though reader, that whilst this may look like a particularly large fish- it is in fact a deadly two handed weapon... being hit by a fish must surely hurt?) Painting was nice and straightforward: Fish: Macragge Blue, Asurmen Blue wash (O...

  I've been painting up some more miniatures for Burrows and Badgers- I can't get enough of them at the moment. Coming off the back of painting up all those Orcs for Middle Earth SBG, it's so refreshing to:  A) paint something much more colourful and different  and B) paint individual characters that I can spend a bit of time on, and put some care into the painting so they're exactly how I want them. (I just don't have the patience to do this on 25+ Orcs...) The beauty of Burrows and Badgers is all your miniatures are characters- because you only need 4-6 to create a warband, so I'm taking my time with each one. Starting with my Platypus then This is a 3D printed miniature, sculpted by Cobramode (who from what I can tell really likes Platypuses? There are definitely a lot of different sculpts!) and the 3D printed for me by a store on Etsy called Terrafig. They were able to give me a custom scaling to get the Platypus in scale with B&B. The only additional th...

  I've recently got into the skirmish game, Burrows and Badgers, which caught my eye when I stumbled upon it on Youtube. I must admit- this might be a bit of a dream game for me. Growing up, I absolutely loved reading books such as the Redwall series, the Winds in the Willows and watching Disney's Robin Hood- so I have always had a bit of a soft spot for the sub-genre of Fantasy where animals take on the role of humans. I even have Bojack Horseman as one of my favourite TV shows of recent years, so it's safe to say I enjoy the whimsy of this sort of thing. Finding a game, which has the feel of essentially being Redwall, is therefore something I'm really looking forward to trying, but probably more looking forward to painting! With all that said, I decided to get started by grabbing a few Skaven miniatures to mess around with. I'm intending to get much more than just this done- but I quite like to start projects with something reasonably quick and easy, just to make ...

  Here we are- after 4 months of building and painting, we've all completed our armies! The only thing left to do now is to get them on the table (tune in next month for a battle report!) In the meantime, let's take a look at our completed armies, and reflect on the process of building a force, and what doing a project like this is like: Isengard- Onod Onod: Another 10 Orcs painted, and 3 Crebain bases to round off the force, and it's done. I'm not going to dwell too much on the painting this month- the orcs were just more of the same, and  I've already spoken about creating and painting the Crebain  on the Blog. I will point out the 2nd Orc Captain and Banner though. I wanted a bit of variety, and to stretch my Orc Commander pack a bit further, so I actually turned the Orc Taskmaster into another Captain. This was a really easy conversion- simply snipping off the whip from the Orc's hand, and then using an Isengard shield. I think this ties him in well to an Is...