An anthro from Dark Sword Miniatures extensive range.
Red Pandas are such extraordinary animals, that I jumped at the chance to paint one. In real life, red pandas have an entirely black underside, but I decided to cheat a bit on my version. They don't have blue eyes either, call it artistic licence !
The Cisalpine Gauls (those living south of the Alps) had sacked Rome in 390 BC and fought intermittently with Rome for the next 150 years. After a series of defeats early in the Third century BC, the Gauls remained quiet for 50 years. Then in 232 the Romans began settling on captured Gallic lands.
This roused the barbarians to prepare another invasion. This time, the Cisalpine Gauls were joined by their kinsmen from across the Alps, the fierce Gaesatae under their Kings Aneroestes and Concolitanus. In 225 BC a force of 70,000 Gauls descended on Etruria and overran the country looting and pillaging. When they reached Clusium, a city only three days’ journey from Rome, a Roman army led by a praetor appeared on their heels forcing them to turn back and confront it.
The two armies camped for the night in close proximity. The Gauls kept their campfires burning, but withdrew their infantry, leaving only their cavalry behind. The horsemen had orders that when the enemy approached, they were to retire toward Faesulae and their infantry, which lay in ambush. At daybreak, the Romans, seeing the cavalry alone and thinking the Gauls had taken to flight, followed the cavalry with all speed.
On their approach the Gauls sprang from ambush and attacked them. A stubborn conflict took place, but finally the numbers and courage of the Gauls prevailed. The surviving Romans retreated to a hill, while the Gauls set up a loose blockade. These fugitives would all have been lost, but the consul Aemilius Paullus arrived with a relief army that night. The Gallic kings chose to retreat with their booty rather than fight another battle. They broke camp before daybreak and retreated along the seacoast through Etruria.
The stage is set. The battle lines are drawn and you are in command. The rest is history.
Roman Army
• Leader: Two Roman Praetors
• 5 Command Cards
Victory
6 Banners
Special Rules
When a Roman
unit occupies a Gallic camp hex, it is removed at the Start of the Roman
player’s turn. When all three camp hexes are removed, the Roman player
gains one Victory Banner.
A very pleasant scenario, which I played a total of three times. First time around, with my friends Arnaud and Pierre; the Romans triumphed 6-2 as I remember.
The other two times I played solo, using all my house rules. The Romans won the first battle 6-1.
I then changed tactics for the Gauls, seeking to have them occupy the hilly area as soon as possible; when the Romans are sitting on it, it is hard for the Celts to find targets. The opposite turned out to be true, giving more time for the Gallic warbands to get into the fight. That gave a much closer game, although still a Roman win 6-4. The Gallic warbands made good use of two "Double Time" cards, but neither charge turned out to have a great deal of momentum, which probably lost them the battle.
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| 3rd play. The hill was taken by a "Move-Fire-Move" card |
Great stuff, and makes me want to fight more standalone Command & Colors battles.
A buried king, risen to lead my skeletal hordes into the fray !
A very nice figure from Games Workshop. I painted the entire cloak with stippling, first time I have used it on this scale. It works surprisingly well, and it quite effective for blending together completely different colours.
I'm pretty chuffed with the base on this dead chap, seeing how is cloak is thrown out by the wind, I had sudden inspiration to place dead leaves blowing up all around him. Whatever I was smoking at the time, I need more of it !
A Crocodile Games mini that I painted up some time ago, but I just realised I never posted it here. So better late than never !
I am particularly pleased with how the NMM came out on the blade. Hope you like it !
Comme dirait Arnaud, nous avons encore eu une riche idée et nous lançant dans une modeste campagne de Badgers & Burrows. L'idée est de limiter la campagne à 4-5 scénarios afin de nous motiver à la fois pour peindre les figurines requises, et pour y jouer !
Même si j'ai plein d'anthropomorphes, je voulais rester sur la gamme officielle "Oathsworn", à la fois pour coller au fluff, pour me donner une excuse d'acheter d'autres de cette gamme que j'affectionne, et aussi pour ne pas laisser pauvre Arnaud esseulé et abandonné à peinturlurler. Solidarnosc !
Il n'empêche que j'ai déjà quelques figurines pour ma bande, voici la rapide présentation.
Ce groupe d'hommes et de femmes et d'êtres à la sexe indéterminée, est à l'origine l'équipage d'un modeste péniche marchande, qui naviguait les cours d'eau du Northymbra septentrional. Ecrasé par les taxes royales levées sans cesse pour financer cette guerre fratricide qui ravage le pays, l'équipage s'est progressivement tourné vers le petit banditisme et ne rechigne pas à ravitailler l'une ou l'autre armée si le prix est alléchant.
Le rapport à l'eau (ou aux airs) est donc le thématique de ma bande :
Le capitaine de la bande, Eic l'ornithorynque, navigateur hors pair :
