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PanzerKaput Goes To Barons’ War
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About the Project
Set against a backdrop of a Civil War that lasted for two years, 1215-17, as a result of the issuing of Magna Carta. A civil war was the perfect opportunity for the leading nobles of the time to grab land and power while settling some old scores along the way. This vying for land and power hadn't stopped since the invasion of 1066 with only the strongest of kings being able to keep their nobles in check. Our narrative focuses on small groups of warriors brought together under a lord or baron to raid and steal or defend land and property. With the strong, wise, cunning and lucky aiming to rise out of this civil strife in a better position than when it started. The Barons' War skirmish game has been written to enable players to fight out tabletop battles against the backdrop of the First Barons’ War between rival Barons or rival factions who find themselves on either side of the conflict. The game is historically themed, the gameplay is fast-paced and tactical with plenty of narrative and where force building presents you with lots of options enabling two players to muster very different retinues. However, as intended, this is an alpha set of rules which does not include rules for siege warfare, although rules for fighting in buildings are included. Campaign rules are something that will be addressed at a later date and released online. Having grown out of the Barons’ War Kickstarter project, the intention is for this ruleset to develop into a system that could be used throughout the Medieval period. Starting with England from when the Western Roman Empire withdrew around 410 AD to 1485 AD when Richard III died at the Battle of Bosworth Field. This presents us with a huge span of history for gaming which can be broadly divided into Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon and Viking, Anglo-Norman, Angevin and Plantagenet. And that’s just when looking at it from Great Britain. With warriors of this period being pretty similar, it would be easy to use the profiles in this rulebook to play out tabletop battles in any setting. Over time we see these rules evolving with additional warriors, characters, abilities and scenarios being added starting with the Dark Ages, the Anarchy and the Crusades and shared to www.warhost.online, which has been set up to be the community website for the game.
Related Game: The Barons' War
Related Company: Footsore Miniatures and Games
Related Genre: Historical
This Project is Active
New Video about the Britney Spears Uploaded
I have uploaded a new video about my Welsh in the Barons’ War to my YouTube Channel
I hope you like it.
#thebaronswar #historicalgamer #fsinspired #thewelsh #warhost
Welsh Spears
The Welsh SpearsI have finished my Welsh Spearmen for my Barons’ War Game and I am really please them. I am loving the way they look and feel different to the English and though there is painfully little in the way of information I have aimed to have a Welsh look to them. To me the one thing I have loved the most is the painting of the “celtic” style Welsh designs on some of the shields.
New Video Uploaded to YouTube about the Welsh
New Video uploaded to my YouTube channel and this time is is more Welsh Noble Warriors and Slingers for my Barons’ War games.,
I hope you all enjoy this video.
#footsore #fsinspired #thebaronswar #warhost #wargamer #historicalgamer
Welsh Knights and Slingers
Welsh Knights and SlingersI have finished my Welsh Knights, with the axes and slingers for my Barons’ War game and I think I am close to 500 points of painted figures now. These are lovely Matthew Bickley sculpts, full of character and lovely poses. I have kept with the a similar them and colours as the Nobles and Bowmen to gave a uniformed feel to the force.
The Welsh look like a very interesting army for The Barons’ War and I am looking to playing them.
Barons' War at Club Nights at Leicester Phat Cats and Geek Villain
I have a new video uploaded to the YouTubes on my The Barons’ War: A Medieval Skirmish Game played at my local gaming Leicester Phat Cats Gaming Club and Geek Villain Gaming Club
I hope you link the video
Club Details
Leicester Phat Cats play on Wednesdays and have a booking system for booking gaming tables.
Leicester Phat Cats Gaming Club
Meet: Wednesday
Where: Woodgate Resources Centre, 36 Woodgate, Leicester LE3 5GE
Cost: £3.00
Time: 7.30 to 10.30
Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/Leicesterphatcats
Geek Villain Gaming Group
Meet: Monday Where: Littlethorpe Village Hall, Biddle Road, Littlethorpe, Leicester, LE19 2HE
Cost: £3.50
Time: 7.00 to 10.00
Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/268619320751552
How I paint my Armour, Oh no I am giving away a secret, lol
After being asked how I paint my armour on the UHH by Squirrel Lord and @Sundancer, I thought I would do a quick guide. I have to saying I finding painting armour really interesting because of the reflexes, the different finishes, even the different metals as they all give different affects. But I don’t usually worry about all that but instead aim for something that I am happy with and best brings out the details of the sculpt. A good figure with lovely sculpted details, like Paul Hick’s or Matt Bickley’s are the ones I love the best for the level of detail, nicely between too much and not enough.
So I have do this simple step by step guide to how I paint armour, particular Early Medieval (Dark Age) and Medieval armour.
There is no magic, elves painting them for me, I so there was, it is a straight forward, simple formula that works for me.
All the paints I use for Vallejo Model Colour range, but you can use any paints.
I use the following VMC paints
Black, Gunmetal Blue, Natural Steel and Silver
The Paints I use from Vallejo Model Colour range, Black, Gunmetal Blue, Natural Steel and Silver
I first paint all the metal areas with VMC Gunmetal Blue. I use a very thin coat so the detail of the zenith underneath shows though a bit.
Next I lightly drybrush VMC Natural Steel over the surface of the metal areas to bring out the details.
I then do a very light drybrush, that kisses the surface of the model, using VMC Silver, to ring out the highlight details. You are looking the edges, raise areas and tops of the helmets, to give that polished, worn look. Trick is to just do the lightest of touches with the drybrushing. In fact you can leave it at this stage if you like but I apply a couple of extra things.
The next stage I wash a mix of VMC Black with the VMC Gunmetal Blue, I use 2 parts Gunmetal Blue to 1 part Black to about 7 parts water. You want this to be very watery so it washes into the recesses and bland all the colours together but not so it hides all your previous work. The good thing is you can play around with the Gunmetal Blue to Black ratio, more blue the bluer it is, more black the dark it will be. Also if you are going after the browny weather protection that was favoured in the ECW and 30YW add 1 part Flat Brown to the mix too. This is finished but I just do one extra stage
This is the last stage I do and it is simply a very light drybrush with VMC Silver again to just bring the details out and on the weapons edges I paint a very light edge highlight to them and hard edges on the armour. This is now all done and you see is it rather simple to do :DNew video on the Welsh Uploaded to YouTube
I have uploaded a new The Barons’ War: A Medieval Skirmish Game video and this time it is about the Welsh Bowmen
I have you enjoying watching the video and if you can, please subscribe to me YouTube Channel, Panzer Kaput, and share this or the video.
Thanks you very much
Welsh Bowmen
Welsh BowmenI have finished my Welsh bowmen for my Barons’ War Game and I am very pleased with the results. These are beautiful sculpts from Matt Bickley and represent the famous Welsh Longbows.
There is painfully little information on what they worn and I am gone with natural colours and added a bit of colour by painting the sash in bright colours to represent Celtic plaids and stripes.
