Manda’s (Amachan) Order of Heimdallr

I got the onager from Gripping Beast based for Kings of War. The crew are all loose so they can be added as decoration. This a 60x50mm base for the onager and 20mm squares for the crew.

I put a bit more thought into the bases for the onager and crew. I am thinking of getting a 60x50mm base as that would be the smallest to fit the onager on and if I then put the crew on the bases like this, they can still look like they’re operating the onager on the tabletop.

I finally managed to do a little bit of hobby today and put together the onager from Gripping Beast for the Order of Heimdallr.

And now comes the dilemma of base size. An artillery piece for Kings of War needs to be on a 50x50mm square base with the crew on separate bases which don’t actually count for anything.

That’s not really going to fit….
So I am going to have to invoke the Exceptional Base Sizes rule.

You may need a wider or deeper base for exceptionally large Heroes, Monsters, Titans or War Engines – in such rare cases, use the smallest base that you can fit your model on.

So that would then be a 50x75mm base. I can get some of the crew on there but none of the extras. The frontage would still be 50mm so for the most important bit, the firing arc, it doesn’t really matter.

But then if I go with a 50x100mm base I can fit everything just on 1 single base which will look better in my opinion. If I have to go with an exceptional base anyway, should I go for the better looking option? The frontage is still 50mm.

Now for SAGA Age of Magic all of these options are fine, so I wonder what other peoples opinions are.

This is the Onager with Norman Crew from Gripping Beast which I will be using as my siege artillery for the Order of Heimdallr. I honestly think the Norman crew will blend in well with the rest of the army.

Look, I got a box of packing peanuts……

Once I got all the packing peanuts out, it is the Fireforge Games part of the models needed for the expansion of my fantasy army the Order of Heimdallr.

I am not a big fan of multi-basing. While I like the idea of making nice diorama’s of units, I want to use these models for other games as well. Doing the multi-basing makes that very difficult. So, since I am magnetizing all the bases of the miniatures for a transport solution, I got ferrous rubber sheets to cut in size as movement trays. This way the miniatures stick to one base, are of the correct size in terms of unit frontage and are still removable and can be used as individual models in other games. And they will also conform to different types of terrain for which I will do a test later on.

Also this big red book to slap Warhammer Old World players in the face with has arrived. Which makes me question, would they even know a good game if it hit them in the face?

To answer this I will go over all the changes I am making to the army. I will be using the Kings of War unit names for this so people familiar with the game might know what is what.

Bowmen, I currently have 20 which would be a regiment and this will be upped to 40 to create 2 regiments.
Crossbow Block, I currently have 12 and I will add another 8 to make a full regiment.
Foot Guard, The current number is at 10 and I will add another 10 to make it a full regiment.
Foot Guard with Two-handed Weapons. I again have 10 and will add 10 more for a full regiment.
Spear Phalanx, I have 20 models currently and this will be increased to 40 for 2 whole regiments.
Knights, This currently stands at 5 and will go up to 10 for a full regiment of cavalry.
Mounted Sergeants, I have 16 of them now and will increase this to 20 for 2 full cavalry regiments.
Beast Cavalry with Fly and Speed 10. I have 4 and this will stay at 4. However I am going to make 2 empty bases to put in between them so they can still form 2 regiments.
General, I have 1 general on foot, this will not change.
Wizard, I have one wizard on foot and this one will be replaced with a different model.
Wizard of Horseback, I have one and this will not change.
General of Winged Beast, again I have 1 and this will not change.
And lastly The Captain for which I also have 1 and this will not change.

And then what I am going to be adding to army.

I will be adding a regiment of 20 models forming a Pole-Arms Block.
Another 20 models for a Shield Wall.
A Horde of 40 peasants to represent a Militia Mob.
A regiment of 10 Mounted Scouts.
1 Onager as Siege Artillery.
2 more heroes on foot, 3 on horseback* and 1 on a pegasus.

I am planning on maybe adding a giant as well, but we’ll see.

This is my current plan for expansion. This should give me well over 2000 points for Kings of War and plenty of options to choose from.

*On horseback as by the rules, the models may not necessarily be mounted on a horse model.

Since my body isn’t capable of doing much physical hobby today, I decided to make a new header logo for this project. That was really needed as well.