Reply To: Saga Age of Magic: Gaming in the gaps – do you have any wild ideas for warbands?

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Decided to look up what the factions/play styles where for AoM and found the  blackshawgaming and Harold’s Revenge blogs, so now I  have a mildly better idea what you are going for based on the names and what they where doing army wise (‘The Otherworld’ (demons), ‘Masters of the Underearth’, ‘The Horde’, ‘The Lords of the Wild’, ‘The Undead Legions’ and ‘The Great Kingdoms’ (medieval society)).

Yeah, I meant  Philippines as in the Filipino, Moro,etc. in the Archipelagos. Very colorful area historically, I think Old Glory has stuff for the early Spanish incursions/colonization of the area if you want to do ‘Great Kingdoms’. From what little I know about their folklore monsters, if one can get the models for it  you  might be able to do ‘The Otherworld’, ‘The Undead Legions’, and ‘The Lords of the Wild’.

There is actually a little history of armor Africa, admittedly mostly in the North, but there are some uniquely African examples.  Perhaps the most well know being from Southern Nigeria region in the form of the Benin Empire, and there are some 3D print greenskin minis based of  them.

If I where doing an Eastern European themed fantasy army for AoM, personally I would focus on Russia folklore and either do Vladimir’s knights of the Golden Table or Marya Morevna themed ‘Great Kingdoms’ with force which would be easy, though you could also probably do a ‘The Horde’ force for some of the baddies at least (maybe even goodies).

After finding out what the “factions” where, while you are right about the oni,  to be honest  ‘The Undead Legions’ and ‘Great Kingdoms’ (humans) would probably be the easiest and fastest ones to do out of Japanese folk lore with whats available  mini wise on the market right now.

Also given the sandbox like quality of them all, while ‘The Otherworld’ makes the most sense description wise for yokai in general, you could probably field a Night Parade themed force as any of the 6 mentioned pretty easily except maybe (and that’s a big maybe) ‘Masters of the Underearth’ and still make sense theme and playwise since yokai very in myth from being horror monster to parodies of feudal life (sometimes with the same monsters). Likewise a lot of forces from Japanese myths are pretty much just parallels the humanity, the Sea Dragon Emperor’s legions for example would probably work best with a ‘Great Kingdoms’ list.   If one has sculpting talent,  Yokai.com  likely has something one could use as inspiration to fill in that “punch/needed” unite on the roster