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Journey to my first tournament – Mortem et Gloriam – 2023-04-01/02 Roll Call 2023 – 28mm Magna – VIKINGS on TOUR!!!
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About the Project
Rob talked me into doing this, what have I done!!!! Rob ‘suggested’ we go to a Mortem et Gloriam tournament, have the rules but haven’t had a go of it yet, thanks Covid!!! Have a 6 point Viking Saga (Gripping Beast plastic) force that I was in the process of updating with a force of Vikings from Victrix to re-do my Saga army. Cue the purchase of two more Victrix Viking sets, Dark Age archers (need archers) and Ancient Gallic Cavalry to convert to Vikings on horses. Hmmm what started off as a conversion project has really taken off. The force needed to attend is 8000 pts, which roughly equates to 8 Cavalry, 72 (now 64) Huscarls, 72 (now 80) Hird and 42 Archers give or take. Also needed to source sabots bases to base the forces, went back to the Legend John Banks on Facebook. John does amazing work with MDF and he sorted me out with bases, lots and lots of bases – 60mm x 6omm – mix of 4, 3 and 2 man bases. Mortem et Gloriam (MeG) uses bases (Unit groups – TUGS, UGs and SUGS (I think :/)) as the method of controlling the armies, the bases are set at specific sites and so you can uses models of any size. In this case the bases are set at 60mm x 60mm. So went with sabots. And then! Rob said we had to do a camp bases 3 times (frontage) the size of the Unit bases – 180mm x 120. So off to find some minis to build a mini diorama ?
Related Game: Mortem Et Gloriam
Related Company: The Plastic Soldier Company
Related Genre: Historical
Related Contest: Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2023
This Project is Completed
Love the smell of MDF in the morning, smells like.... got the last lot of the sabots
Finally based up my horseys. everything based now, painting full steam a head
The Sabots
Need these to play MeG as it uses bases for play, miniature size agnostic. The Tournament base size is set at 60mm frontage
MEG MAGNA
1. MeG Magna is a variant which requires a smaller number of models. It is suitable for playing with 25 or 28mm figures on a 180cm x 120 cm table.
2. All the rules for MeG Maximus apply with the following exceptions:
2.1 Terrain sizes and terrain placement rules are 2/3rds the size in MeG Maximus. The flank zone for deploying terrain is also reduced to 2/3rds the size in MeG Maximus.
2.2 UG sizes are reduced. See the MeG Army Lists for details, but typically UGs in 4 or 6’s become 4’s, UG’s in 6 or 8’s become 4’s and UG’s in 6, 8 or 9’s become 4 or 6’s.
2.3 Skirmishers shoot at full effect with 2 ranks and reduced effect with 1 rank instead of the Maximus 3 and 2.
Skirmish - Archers
Huscarls and Hird
Archers
CavalrySome more work on the camp and some more colour
Wyldwood for the wood
Snakebite leather for leather
Ironjawz yellow for items of clothing
A bit of an experiment - Pylar Glacier for some pale blue clothing - Opinions?
Wanted to do some pale blue to lighten things up, have a lot of darker colours and chainmail. Went for Pylar Glacier, more like a wash.
Still need to do the flesh.
Sorry the pics look a lot different compared to reality.
So Pylar Glacier for some pale blue clothing – Opinions?
@sundancer & @avernos ignore the mold lines!!! shields will mask them
Time to prep and pain the sabots
need to prep the MDF first, dip in sealant prior to painting 
Then on to painting, cheap acrylic paint for the sabot bases. Burnt Umber and Titanium White to lighten it up
Took a few coats
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