Drabant Miniatures Rus Viking Hearthguard

 

Finished another Hearthguard Figure for the Viking warband.

This figure is another Rus Miniature from Drabant Miniatures

 



Warriors with Dane Axe

Well I finally managed to get the unit of Warriors armed with Dane Axes Completed.

I can now use these as normal Warriors in Vikings, Heavy Weapon Armed Warriors for Jomsvikings or Norse-Gaels & finally Gall-Gaedhill (Sons of Death)

 

I've done weapon swaps on another 

Wargames Foundry Miniature & a Gripping Beast figure (now sold separately as a champion)

The last two new figures have not had any alterations, one is an old Citadel Viking (now sold by Wargames Foundry) & as for the other figure, I've  no idea who the manufacturer is. 
Turns out he is a Black Tree Designs Unarmoured Saxon. 

A COUPLE MORE VIKING HEARTHGUARD

Finished up a couple more Hearthguard for my Saga Vikings..

Both miniatures are from the Saxon Miniatures range, 

now owned by Warlord Games. 

Ive not done any conversion work on them, 

barring changing the weapon handles to make them less prone to beding or breaking. 

Finally played a game of Saga 2!

Finally managed to get down to the club & played a game of Saga 2nd Edition, 

this is only the second time I’ve managed to play the second edition, since it’s releas earlier this year. 

Craig & I decided to play a 4pt game to help us get our heads around the changes. 

The Warbands that we used were Craigs Welsh VS my Vikings, (which is nice as both Warbands have won best painted at the U.K. Grand Mellee) both of us taking 

3 units of Warriors & 1 unit of Hearthguard along with the Warlords. 

In the new rules if a unit isn’t within ‘L’, 

or move within ‘L’ of an enemy unit they get to perform a manoeuvre (?)

 which is basically a free move without having to use a Saga dice. 

This means that you can get your units into position easily. 

There are new cohesion rules & 

all the figures in a unit now get to fight in combat 

as long as you can stay within the unit cohesion rules when they charge..

All units are now exhausted on 3 fatigue, which means that you need to be more careful with the Hearthguard & Warlord. 

The Warlord now has 8 attack dice & can only pass wounds to Hearthguard & he also doesn't ignore the first wound,

 but can take a fatigue to cancel each wound. 

If you are careful with the position of the Hearthguard, he is surprisingly survivable. 

After a hard fought battle, where the Welsh didn't manage to make the Vikings into javelin filled pin cushions, 

They ended up with only 2 men left, after the Viking Warlord managed to slay the Welsh chieftain. 

Victory for the Vikings & free reign over the Welsh countryside.