SAGA: Ages of Ages

When the new Saga Age of Chivalry book came out my friend and I got all excited and bought forces to play.  He went for the Free Companies (boo!) and I decided I wanted to keep life simple so tried to find a box of plastics I could get a whole 6 point army out of.  I tried to work something around the Perry Mercenaries box but couldn’t figure anything out.  The French look like an easy faction but they would take at least 2 Perry boxes to do.  Then I spotted their Agincort English box.  This has 12 Men at Arms and 24 Archers.  In Saga Terms that is:

3x 4 man Hearthguard (Fielded as 2 Units of 6 and therefore only generating 2 Saga dice) costing 3 Points
3x 8 man Archer Warrior units (generating 3 Saga dice) costing 3 points

So with a Warlord that’s the whole 6 point force sorted.

Perry box was bought and assembled in time for the test game.  Then they sat around for a bit on the workbench when I got half way through because my friend’s models looked better as his metallics were so shiny.  I found out his secret (Darkstar Molten Metals) and experimented with a new approach which I’m happy with so here are the Men at Arms:

The banners are in the information sheet that comes with the kit.  I went for a simple Cross of St George and then the banner of Henry V.  This is because I bought the Copplestone Henry V to use as my Warlord.

I tried to add some mud and trampled grass as the basing scheme.  I used gloss varnish to try to get them looking wet.  Difficult to see in photographs but it looks okay: