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Five More Townsfolk

Well this evening I decided to do a few more townsfolk for Traitor’s Toll.

So from left to right we have… A lady with sickle and wheat (not quite sure why… Maybe a window box or something) a fishmonger, some raggedy arsed man with a sack, a dude holding out a snake (the mind boggles… Maybe he is doing an act where he shoves it down his trousers) and finally we have a young lady playing a flute.

Now there are only five unique bodies in the set, but with plenty of heads and arms then really no two should look alike, same body, different figures.

Because they looked so different in the photo I actually had to check that it was the same body. In fact there are a couple of aprons as well as the mantels that can oomph them up even more.

Well after whining about not having the right magnets I decided to splash out and purchase some 3×1 mm ones to fit the holes I have. As I was ordering them I decided to get five parsecs from home as my son is more interested in sci fi than fantasy.

I have a Stargrave box of miniatures as well as a pile of other stuff so we should be able to get going over the Christmas break.

As I said in an earlier post I have decided to downsize the collection. Anything with no interest is going the journey.

So off the top of my head… Staying are the 15mm armies I have, ditto with the 10mm and 6mm.

I will keep my hundred years war and Celts in 28mm as well as the stuff for Five Leagues and The sci-fi stuff for playing with James.

My bookshelves and boardgames are also going to get a radical cut. I live in a tiny house and don’t have the room for a shit load of stuff.

I have asked for a book on the Italian Wars for Christmas. No miniatures this time, well not exactly true I ordered three frames of cultists to become baddies for Five Leagues etc.

So starting soon I will be offering stuff to Thule gamers and thence to eBay. Wish me luck. Some of this stuff I have had for 30 years.

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Painted things…

Well I got going again this evening and slapped more paint on the Brotherhood… Nearly got them finished…

I very cleverly painted a halved shield, was really proud of it  then realised I had reversed them. Evidently I never learn as that is exactly what I did with my full size shield…so tomorrow I will try again!

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Villagers, Miscreants or…

Both?

This evening I managed a little bit of snipping and glueing. These are the four remaining miniatures from the peasant levy sprue.

They will be useful in either Traitor’s Toll or Five Leagues. Not exactly a huge amount, but more than I had this morning.

The sprue still has a load of arms, heads and weapon options remaining. I have some 3D printable WA miniatures so I will have to see if any bodies will be useful.

In other news I am up to 30 hours next week in my phased return to work and am heading off down to Manchester in a couple of weeks for some training.

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Brotherhood of the Silver Boar

Well I eventually got around to making my brotherhood… Aka my force for Five leagues from the Borderlands.

So here are the six of them… From left to right:

Starting with the heroes:

Bragollach the mystic. Rowan the frontiersman, Sir Percival Fanhard, knight and leader. Nellas the Fey ranger. We have two followers as well…

Caedric the former soldier. A loyal retainer to Fanhard and finally Oswyn an outcast drifter.

So the Brotherhood are on a ship heading to Blackwater Landing: the initial starting point. Now I could have started them in the port but I decided to do a travel roll. So on the journey across the sea they met a physician named Eldrin Marrowell. They got on famously and as he was going to start a practice in Blackwater it seemed a great start. Unfortunately he was worried that his previous employer was unhappy with him leaving. Sure enough as they come down the gangplank a group of what seems like very organised Robbers demand the Brotherhood hand over Eldrin. He asks them for aid and when Fanhard refuses to hand him over weapons are drawn. Not exactly the best start in a new town

After much angst about how to find a suitable ranger cloak for Nellas I decided to have a go at making one for myself. I got the idea from Peachy’s YouTube channel.

Basically the idea is that you use masking tape… It’s not bad for a first attempt.

I had better get some stuff painted so I can find out if the Brotherhood can save Eldrin.

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Five Leagues, the Map…

So as I said yesterday I had drawn a bit of a sketch map which is going to come in really handy. Now some of the settlements are going to move and I need to get the terrain sorted as well…

I also fleshed out the characters, they now have their weapons and equipment.

I had a bit of a problem with the mystic, trying to choose his/her spells

I was trying to work out the type they would be.  The rules say choose two, roll for the next three. I flipped these to give me a starting point..

I rolled:

Fog… Basically a three inch fog patch appears on the table blocking line of sight.

Shield… A protection spell against ranged attacks.

Infuse… Gives the target a counter attack ability.

I decided that he would be some form of hedge wizard as opposed to a battle wizard.

Because of this I chose Shadows and Barrier.

Shadows allows an ally to move 4 inches and avoid terrain, including walls.

Barrier, does what it says on the tin, it will put a 4 inch wall of fire on the table. I am going to change it to something like thorns.

The final thing I rolled was to find the background story for the leader. Turns out he has a loyal follower, as one of them is a former soldier it all fitted in nicely.

Tomorrow I find the rest of the miniatures.

The other thing I did was to get the stuff off the printer…

So two cruisers, an ambulance and a coroner’s van. Oh and some Team Yankee stuff in the background.