I finished up a few more elements for Hordes of the Things this weekend! Most are Copplestone Castings 10mm Heroes and Rangers... But I also added a few plastic French casualties from the Wargames Atlantic box to the Hero I finished up last week.
New Stuff...
A lot of these miniatures from the Coppelstone Castings Halflings and Heroes pack are clearly meant to be characters from the Lord of the Rings - with the Conan-like figure being the single exception. I read somewhere that Coppelstone made these around the time Games Workshop released their Battle of Five Armies game - which was a reskin of their previous Warmaster game - complete with five middle earth armies in 10mm! The miniatures in this 10mm line were meant to (unofficially) supplement those miniatures so you could play battles of the Lord of the Rings in addition to the climactic battle of The Hobbit! I have no idea if this is true...
Regardless... I felt compelled to paint all of them similar to how their characters would have looked - wizards in grey or white robes, etc... But then I thought about it enough and decided; I'm NOT playing Lord of the Rings, these AREN'T those characters, I can paint them however I want!!
Most of these are not for any one army in particular, just yet... except one, maybe.
Magician #1
Magician and companions on horseback. Magicians in HotT go the same speed as Paladins and Riders and Heroes (and FASTER than Knights in Good Going!?).. Yet they aren't considered "mounted"...? These could end up being part of the Generic Steppe Peoples army - which will otherwise be mounted types. But... being in a green cloak, could also likely end up in the OTHER Generic French-ish Medieval army for Hordes of the Things (Which I plan to do in green and yellow)
Magician #2
Magician and Companions on Foot! This one with the wizard in red robes might become part of Duc Philipe du Lapin's army - my Generic French-ish Medieval army for Hordes of the things. Or... ONE of them, at least... I'll probably end up with a few (and the wizards on horse above could just as easily be part of one of those!
Mounted Heroes
These I imagined could the the General element for the Generic Steppe Peoples army - either as a Rider or a Hero... or... maybe a Knight...? The definitions of troops are more based on how they are employed in battle rather than their exact equipment...? So... maybe these could be impetuous nobles that like to charge into close combat with the enemy, while the rest of the army gallops around in circles unleashing volleys of arrows, harassing their foe!
Sneakers
Kind of looks like Aragon, Legolas and Gimli... (or maybe that's supposed to be Faramir and supposed to be leading the rangers...?). I was back and forth on what to use these as... could have just as easily been another Hero element - If I was thinking of the Fellowship... but then I thought this could represent a small group of elite fighters - a mercenary adventuring party, perhaps, gang of Murder Hobos!? Sneakers, it seems, cannot affect anything on the battlefield except other sneakers, a general element, or strongholds. I've never really employed them. They're meant to be assassins that kill generals or sneak around and capture strongholds when no one is looking... Without ninjas or other temple assassins, it seems like the sort of job a band of adventurers (that include a human and an elf and a dwarf that all just meat up in a tavern!?) might do!
Lurkers
A few of the Rangers miniatures. I wasn't entirely sure what to do with these either? mass them up on a base and call them Shooters? I have SO MANY of those (in the form of plastic Medieval Longbowmen and Crossbowmen!) There aren't Psiloi in Hordes of the Things. The closest thing could be MORE Sneakers or possibly Lurkers - so I went with Lurkers. Lurkers aren't deployed at the beginning of a game. They are kept to the side until your enemy enter some bad going and then they pop out and ambush them!
Conan Redux
Also... I felt the Conan Hero base seemed a little bare without companions... so... I added some... um... "companions"! I got the idea from the picture I took last week when I initially finished the element. I took one picture showing him in action and placed a casualty marker on the table in front of him and had a sudden realization that THAT is what I should have done in the first place - have him surrounded by dead that he's slain already!
Just to give you a sense of how big these are... this is an element of blade standing next to two 25/28mm Wargames Foundry medieval warriors!
I have enough done to field one full army for Hordes of the things (there are only ten elements as there is a Hero element and a Magician element (which are 4AP - double what a regular element would cost)
I really just need about six more elements of regular troops - blades, knights, shooters, etc - and I'll be able to field TWO armies and start PLAYING!!
(though, I guess, I will need some terrain... and a Stronghold or five... a some point!?)
What's next...? Well... we played a game of Stargrave Sunday afternoon and so now I have a game report to write... (and I do have some school work I really need to get doing!). It'll probably be Tuesday before I get back to the workbench - which is currently vastly overcrowded with all sorts of prepped and primed and, in some cases, partly painted 10mm miniatures - More Sneakers, evil wizards and anti-heroes, dire wolves (beasts), generic Steppe Peoples Horse Archers, MORE Rangers, MORE medieval men-at-arms (mounted and dismounted) and crossbowmen... not to mention all the other half-finished projects that were already on the workbench - many sci-fi minis for the planned Five Parsecs From Home campaign and 28/32mm fantasy figures for Warhammer Quest: Cursed City!
Of course on Tuesday the next order(s) I placed are due to arrive and that means I will have Orcs and Undead and Dwarves and MORE medievals (Englishmen!), so.... that has the potential to DERAIL EVERYTHING as I may very well decide I NEED ORCS painted to be an opponent for all these Medieval Human types I've been working on over the last few weeks!? (It would probably be way quicker for me to just finish up a few more medieval humans to get two armies ready to play... but when have I ever done anything SENSIBLE!?).
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