In the Jungle....

 

A beautiful figure from Signum Games !

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Carnevale - The Guild

 

I have fallen for the Carnevale universe...I'm hoping to embark my friends aboard the gondola, but for that I'll need to paint up at least three factions.

This is the Capodecina that will lead the Guild band.  I have already posted him here a couple of months ago, but now he is fully based (and, I must admit, the base pleases me !).  My first Carnevale figures were a by product of the terrain I was after, and didn't come with cobbled bases.  I figured that didn't matter, I would paint on the cobblestones when the time came.  Except I really didn't want to, when the time came !

By pure coincidence, I had bought some AK Interactive crackle-effect basing material from an FLWS in Spain.  Whereas the GW equivalent makes large crackling, like sun-baked earth, this one makes much tighter effects, and I figured I could use it for my Carnevale figures.  What a lot of time saved !  

For the moment, the Capodecina is lacking recruits, the band is only three strong.  The Patricians are the furthest ahead, with 7 figures (pictures will follow), there are 5 painted up in the Vatican faction, and the Rashaar have 2 members. Yes, I know I said three factions, that is four.  What can I say ?

Fatimid Egyptians 969-1077

This is the army that I have waited twenty years to paint.  Always wanted it, never got round to it !  I have now, thanks to my new technique for painting 15mm.

The vast majority of the figures are Forged in Battle.  There are a handful of Khurasan (the mutatawwi'a) and one Outpost general, all of which I painted way back.  The flags are from Little Big Men, plus one hand-painted.

One big happy family. 136 infantry and 22 horsemen

Sudanese 'Abid lancers / bowmen

Daylami

Ahdath town levies

Ghulams : Circassiens and Slavs for the most part

 

Sudanese tribal warriors, flanked by religious zealots

The company shareholders

 

Skirmishers

Infantry with two-handed weapons

 

A lotl of Axolotls

 Well, two actually.  These are both from Reaper.  Who doesn't love axolotls ?

These two join Erenthal for a campaign called "The Founding of Alladore".

Not only am I a big fan of Rangers of Shadow Deep and its many scenarios, I also like the background itself and as some you may already have seen, have run it extensively in an Anthropomorphic setting.

I thought it would be really interesting to go back 800 years in time, and play out the founding legends of Alladore.  This campaign will see the beginnings of the Rangers, and, who knows, may touch upon the genesis of the Shadow Deep itself (that we name the Jungle Deep, for various reasons).

I decided to use Burrows and Badgers for the campaign (what, use Anthro rules for an Anthro setting ?  What a radical idea !).  One band led by Erenthal, the future founder of the kingdom that would later split into Alladore and Lorenthia, and the other not being a fixed band, but the various adversaries he meets on his way.   

The first part is a sort of Odyssey (very hip !), as Erenthal leaves his home continent driven by disaster, and is then whirled far off course.  The first scenario is here with the AAR, and the second is awaiting play.  There will be a third, called Shipwreck, which sees Erenthal landing on (well, flopping onto) the continent from which he will carve out his future kingdom.  If all goes well, of course...he might simply die from a Mist Ghast's touch in Lost in the Fog.  For the next part, I will use the B&B official Warren Percy campaign, which looks really good.

Since I also love Burrows & Badgers, both the amazing figures and the world that Oathsworn have so lovingly created, I decided to go for a sort of crossover.  The place where Erenthal first kisses the earth (well, slobbers on it, as he is washed up half-drowned...but legends are not about truth, are they) is called Northymbra, and will share as many characteristics with the Oathsworn universe that I can fit in... 

Anthros

I painted both of these a while back, but never got around (as far as I remember) to posting them here.  Them being in action was a good opportunity to get some half decent photos !

A lovely owl from Oathsworn, one of their resin models for Burrows & Badgers.

 

 

A camel from Mierce's Byzantii range.  A highly unusual figure that was a pleasure to paint.  That is one hell of a sword to paint with NMM, however !