Dark Age Madness

With the Saxons completed the forces made it onto the table for a game of Midgard playing the “Take the High Ground” scenario from the rule. This was a largish game with ~460pts a side with multiple players. The British were holding the hill and one of their commands were off the table. The Saxons had to push them off the and capture the 3 objective markers on the hill to gain reputation.

The game ended as a major victory for the British partially because the Saxons commanders decided to keep both their heroes and best units in the second rank to “protect” them(they didn’t grasp the meaning of the rules from the full title 😂). The British however used their best troops and heroes correctly leading the charge and creating mayhem.

Finally this for this update were a couple of Loot markers made up of Iron Age pigs and Soay Sheep.

With the extra two figures I made a commander on foot for one of the heroes.

The next up were 4 units of “young warriors” (Geoguth) basically unarmoured warriors with the odd armoured chap thrown in.

Again these were painted in multiple colours but with great skill and dexterity I managed to get a number of those in various hues of blue ended up on the same base (doh!).

After finishing off the British it was time to start the Saxons. These are the early Saxon figures from Victrix (with the usual Little Big Man shield designs).

These three units were made up of armoured figures with a mix of weapons.

Finally managed to finish off the cavalry I needed to field the 400 points force for Midgard.

These are Victrix Late Roman armoured cavalry but with a couple of head swaps using the Romano British heads from the Late Roman infantry set.

Now just need to finish off  some of the Warlord personality figures I got as a present and that’s the Romano British finished, but saying that I have already started on the Saxon forces.

Coming back to the thought on flexibility I did not want to rebase the current Saga forces just in case I wanted to play again so it was out with the sabot bases. These will form the units of “tribal warriors” and “skirmishers” I need to complete the army.

Finally there is also the option to potentially field the forces as small “Hail Caesar” for the use in the “Once and Future King” supplement that was recently published.

With the basing I have adopted this will allow me to use 3 bases of the Infantry to form a unit under “Hail Caesar” rules so everyone is a winner.

It was now time for the main men the “mighty heroes” that are key in the Midgard game.

First off when I found the cavalry seen previously I had also found a couple of “late roman” command figures that would fit into the role plus there were a couple of infantry spare from the Victix set that would make suitable foot commanders.

For the other commanders I would need I just rebased a couple of the older “warlord” figures I already had for my Saga forces.