Rangers of Shadow Deep – Solo play project
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About the Project
I watched Ash Barker play this game on his YouTube channel Guerrilla Miniature Games as a let's play and I decided I wanted to get these rules. These rules are from the author of Ghost Archipelago and Frostgrave. I love Frostgrave, made lots of terrain and started on warbands and a bestiary of bad guys, but never actually got to play. This project shows my steps into getting my head into the rules, my warbands created, the minis painted and to try and get some games played.
Related Game: Rangers Of Shadow Deep
Related Company: North Star Military Figures
Related Genre: Fantasy
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Sword tree revisited...
I made a sword tree. Inspired from a sketch by Ben an age ago. Made from GW sprues and Mantic Games skeleton swords.
I think the head is a carving, but it could be a man trapped in the tree for reasons yet unknown.
I used urban grey flock on the trunk of the tree to be a creeping plant / parasite growth and once dry picked out with green paint.Swamp zombies improvement
A splendid bit of work from Hati Hróðvitnisson from the Rangers of Shadow Deep Facebook page gave me food for thought.
Hati used a load of grass / reeds stuck to what look like Oathmark skeleton troops to make his swamp zombies/ skellies.
I went back to my goopy swamp zombies and added moss (green flower soft) and grasses (Army Painter Swamp Tufts and Steppe static grass) to great effect I feel.
Faithful
“Gnolled Faithful” is called that because beneath that loin cloth… He’s hung like a horse. (Hence the confident smile).
Lercher the Gnoll crossbowman
Lercher loves cross-hairs and cross hares (Of Coursing).
Same routine gnoll skin paint job, but started with black primer. Mournfang Brown to come up a tone from the black, Zandri Dust for the pale areas then a mix of Contrast Snakebite Leather on the dark side to a Citadel Yellow wash on the lighter side to show a transition in the colour of the pelt. Morghast around the eyebrows and ears and pelt highlights.
Flesh Tearer Red, Ork Flesh Green and Black Templar Contrast on the clothes.
Trying not to corpse
Finally got around to finishing off these gruesome corpse markers.
Metal Reaper Vultures and badly hacked and painted Mantic Games plastic ghouls from a bits box.
You can take Juan from the Gnolls...
… But you can’t take the Gnoll in Juan. ?
My last sergeant was very colourful. Juan is in drab brown apart from his bright red mask.
This is my third sergeant and I don’t think I need any more than 3 from the scenarios I have seen so far. I may need more in Frostgrave missions when I finally get around to them.
Primed in Army Painter Fur Brown and just used washes and Contrast paints to break up the garments.
Corpse Markers
Got a bit box off ebay years ago which must have been mentioned a half a dozen times before in this project. A gift that keeps on giving. ?
These Mantic Games zombie bodies were caked in thick white paint and cut at in odd places and removed from the tab bases. Rather than strip the paint or throw them away I made them into Corpse Markers. The Vulture is from Reaper. I think the wolves got his arms and toes. ?
Tor Vardon The Lower Tower Room 3
The last room was the Shaman Workshop. Which was annoying because i had lots of fun painting terrain ready for the armoury room. We ended up setting up a wall of the better fighters so we would definitely get some gang up bonuses when we weathered the creature phase when they attack and then in the companions phase we managed to get a huge gang up bonus on the shaman and slay him easily with a crit. We were able to get to the stairs and the Golem wasn’t animated. Was able to get 57 experience points to take my ranger to exactly 100 points to level up. Eoin survived his post game injury with a 20, but to simulate his scrape with injury and death I will leave him with the prisoners on the lower level and take everyone else, including the Man at Arms up stairs.
