Adventures in Burrows & Badgers

Fenton (was!) the second in my warband. He utilises the Rock Steady skill to give him a bit of a move-and-shoot skillset. It worked really well until he got killed by a mouse called Sooty.

Painting a squirrel was surprisingly tricky,  I didn’t really have any paints to make him more on the ginger side so he’s ended up kinda brown with a red wash. I did a better job on another squirrel later on.

Montgomery is the leader of my warband. He’s two days from retirement perpetually.

Unfortunately he gets battered every game but my warband is low on muscle so he has to get stuck in every time.

I thought about giving him a red suit of armour but decided against it and just went for a bit of a spot colour. I’ve since seen an excellent blue/red two-tone colour scheme on this model and I’m totally jealous I didn’t think of it first.

Roster-wise he’s got improved strike and block dice with a 2h weapon and the zweihander skill. The idea is that he’s meant to hit hard and then leg it.

I can’t actually remember how I stumbled across Burrows and Badgers a distant couple of months ago. What I do remember is falling in love with the miniatures immediately and being pleased at the reviews of the game to find that it was a small-scale skirmish game with graduating dice roll-off mechanics.

It’s like someone took all my childhood favourite films and cartoons and made a miniatures game out of them – result!

Naturally I immediately ordered two warbands’ worth of miniatures and the rulebook from Oathsworn to lure my wife into playing with me. Also I went on a terrain-making spree like nothing I’d ever tried before.

The Facebook group for the game is top notch and since Michael and Jo are very active there it’s rewarding to share progress and games (also to get quick responses to rules questions!)