I really like the dwarf zweihander conversion - I have a few of the original marauder dwarfs that are slightly damaged and could be reborn like that.
I feel a little blasphemous, especially with the Bugman's champion. They were in excellent condition. I just chopped them up.
I really like the dwarf zweihander conversion - I have a few of the original marauder dwarfs that are slightly damaged and could be reborn like that.
Going back to your mention of Kings of War in November -what list are you using with your Marienburgers.
I have had a couple of games with the League of Rhordia - basically as an excuse to use halflings, but the human armies are very difficult to work the old Imperial Ogres into as there don't seem to be Large Infantry listings. ( I have added some of the Westfalia ones to my collection recently and they work quite well).
I suppose I might need to try some form of alliance, but then you probably need more than the single unit or two I want to take.
I suppose the idea of the small halflings combining with large Ogres, and leaving out the middle size humans is possibly entertaining.
My only experience (those two games in Nov.) was with Kingdoms of Men. I used all humans. I'm going to try out the Rhordia list next time. I will have to look at the rules again, but I was considering floating between those two lists as my mood dictated, and maybe adding in some allied units of ogres, dwarfs, or whatever. Really, if allies are open, I suppose it's also OK to use the KoM list with halfling allies from Rhordia.
If I read correctly you have 6 of each sort (Imperial and Warmonger), so do you run them in 3s or 4s ?
I haven't yet. But when playing regular/open games, I'll just stick with the normal unit sizes. So the ogres will go in units of 3 or 6.
When I started thinking about solo games & such a couple years ago now (pre-KoW for me) I was looking at several other games (Hail Caesar, Legions of Battle, etc.) using basic unit sizes of 16 regular infantry or 4 big guys, with unusually small or large units scaled up or down from that standard. When I started getting interested in KoW I was thinking about using that as the basis for my own KoW solo games or games I host. So I would scale units down from 10 to 8, from 20 to 16, etc. They would lose 20mm of frontage, which would also help make better use of my 4'x6'-8" table. (I prefer larger tables
.) I hadn't really worked out how to handle the big guys, though. Using just 2 seems lame, even in an abstracted game. But its not like 3 is much better. So I was leaning towards "hordes" of 4 (down from the standard 6) but had also thought about sticking with the standard KoW sizes of 3/6/12 since it's all sort of arbitrary anyway and my alternate "footprint" for regular infantry isn't that far off.
Oh, snowman! Even though we live in Finland, we haven't yet built a snowman this year. A shame, since there have been three snows in the south already.
Out weather here has been strange the past few years. Additionally, we moved from one side of town (Cleveland, Ohio) to the other a few years ago, which actually has a major effect on snow due to the local geography. So we have rarely had much snow since my daughter was born. She's 5 and this year has been the first that we've been able to play in the snow.
What is the dwarf supposed to wear? His jacket, is it a wool slipover? The conversion is ace!
You mentioned Ral Partha Halflings. Do you mean those really old, 1979-1982? They're totally tiny! But also quite nice sculpts. I have hard time deciding what to do with those. They're about 3-year olds in 28mm...
I've painted my Empire stuff with the idea of buff jacket. It's a bit different than the historical use, but I wanted to break up the colors, add a certain amount of uniformity to my troops (in spite of the usual variety of colors, they almost all have buff jackets (if present), black caps, and white feathers,) and just liked the idea of a buff jacket even if that was from a little later period in the real world. I painted them a little darker, but I was trying to keep those "uniform" colors a little more neutral.
Below is one of the Ral Partha figures compared to some of the others. Looking at them lined up like that, I guess that it's not as much the height that stands out, it's the leaner proportions. That seemed like the trend with old Ral Partha stuff -- more natural proportions. Back when my friends and I first got into WFB (3rd ed.) one guy bought a bunch of the Ral Partha Condottieri for use in his Empire army (ahead of his time -- before Citadel switched Empire to the puff & slash!) but in spite of the beautiful sculpting, they looked like a completely different scale from the bulky Citadel & Grenadier stuff everyone else was using.
I still have a few RP halfling cavalry too. Even if I feel OK using the infantry, the cavalry are so tiny they will look strange. Like faeries riding horses the size of small dogs.