Elizabethan Zombie Wars - The Cardinals Black Guard.

As June comes to an end the last of the Spanish come off the paint table for the Elizabethan Zombie Wars. These were a gift from way back when Covid19 was a foot note on the overseas new reports.

I wanted to give these mounted Arquebusiers a dark feel to them so the creation of the Cardinal's Guard seemed to be the perfect vehicle for these Spanish troops.

Mounted on Warhorses and armed with the latest in Imperial firearms they should be a useful addition to the Spanish invaders and be a tough opponent for the English and the Undead.

The uniforms are styled on a number of the musketeer movies as after all the villains are always dressed in black :-)

The standard and bugler are matched to the colours of the existing foot troops. The leader of the cavalry troop are led by Capt Tadeo Sancho a seriously nasty piece of work.

Meanwhile a cavalry troop need something to escort so why not a wagon... 

A nice piece of kit from the guys at Warlord. I am sure it will come in handy in future scenario's.

So June is over....

A good month clearing down a number of "fillers" from the Far East to Africa, next up a trip to Egypt with either more Ottomans for the 1798 French expedition or with Infamy Infamy landing today perhaps 1300BC and the New Kingdom Egyptians and Hittites, with a couple of tweaks to make the rules fit the period.

Either way July will be Hot, Sunny and Sandy......

Dispatches from the front X

This week seems to have dragged a little.

Is it the weather, the end of the Diplomacy Campaign or the need to kick off a new project.

The Wyvern Diplomacy Campaign has come to and end, we called it a day when, it came down to myself as Turkey and the Germans. No one wanted to watch two of us battle it out for another couple of years.

A great way to spend the lock down evenings pondering moves and alliances. Well played by everybody and we still left as friends. Such a fun game that has stood the test of time.

Coming soon is the latest release from the Too Fat Lardies and Infamy Infamy.

Designed for gaming warfare in Gaul and Ancient Britain. 

Like many of my projects I wanted to do something slightly different, whilst Roman legions would be good others in the club already have them covered and I would need extra terrain, so with plenty of desert terrain time to roll out the Hittites and Egyptians.

For several months I have been building up the forces storing them up for the launch.

I have started the prep but have a couple more projects to finish before I start them in earnest perfect timing as the rules are due to land at the end of June.

In preparation for the Kings of Bronze Project I took the opportunity to replenish some of the paints, despite having many of these already I still get strangely excited by new paints.

The Foundry paints do last over the years where as the likes of Games Workshop tend to harden as air gets into the newer designed pots.

I have long been a fan of Army Painter's soft tone it gives depth to my painting efforts and covers up some of those minor mistakes but with much of the New Kingdom Egyptians being in white I thought I would give their Flesh wash a try, it looks a little softer and paler and will be perhaps better suited to the whites and lighted colours more prevalent in the Egyptian army.

It looks like the Wyvern Club House will be open in September subject of course to social distancing, bring your own dice and figures and make your own tea :-)

It would be great to have these ready for the club relaunch.

A couple of months to finish a couple of projects and get these under way.

Elizabethan Zombie Project.... Yet more rats....

Yes more Rats and the last of the painting projects for Elizabethan/Fantasy May.

I picked these up from Midlam Miniatures a few weeks ago when looking for a few more folklore oddities to flesh out the forces of darkness.

Mounting 2 giant rats to a base and one gigantic rat all on his own.... I see then as one unit within Warlords of Erehwon rules.

Great castings with plenty of character if a rat can have character :-)

I opted for a dark brown rather than a black colouring having looked at the colours of some of the earlier hordes in particular the D&D plastics, the brown felt like it would give an overall better feel to them.

They make quite a collection now with rats of all sizes filling the table, from small swarms which have been repainted from black to brown to the larger swarms and the half man/half rat king.

I need to tweak a couple of the rules yet but something a little more unusual for the English and Spanish to face rather than the shambling dead.

That's the last of the fantasy/folklore foes complete...

Witches, Zombies, Wolves, Crows, Ghosts, Evil Villagers, a Vampire and various Rats not a bad haul.

If anyone has any other suggestions what might fit feel free to comment.

I am trying to keep away from the usual skeletons and high Fantasy if there is such a thing.

Next up a new month and time to switch projects :-)

English Demi Lancers - Thoroughbreds and Ponys.....

Another big day in the annals of my wargaming hobby. With these three Demi-Lancers exiting the paint table the English faction is complete.....

At least until the show scene sparks into life hopefully come November...

These three are from Foundry's Elizabethan range I already had one painted up from when I first started the Irish project several years back so this should give me a complete unit to field and counter the Spanish cavalry.

Perhaps I should have checked the box first!!!!

The one I already had was from Hoya Key - Previously Graven Images and I realised that scale might be a problem as the chap is an absolute monster - A true Big Man... He will just have to be a homage to the Mountain from Game of Thrones :-)

Some manufacturers you can normally get away with when based and painted.

But adding this chap to the unit somehow makes the new cavalry look less impressive next to him, more like pony club than impact cavalry.

Next up.... The last of the evil stuff.....

Elizabethan English - Warlords of Erehwon.

With the last of English on the paint table, I thought I would document the English defenders for the Elizabethan Zombie wars using the Warlords of Erehwon rules.

I should get some pics up on the blog as soon as the last 3 cavalry are finished this weekend.

The ENGLISH Army

 

The QUEEN OF ENGLAND

Warlord Warrior Unit

Points Value: 122

Unit: Queen Bess	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
1 x Queen Bess	6	6	5	5	8	9	Tough 2, Wound, Fast 8 (Mounted) Command, Dread
2 x Maidens	6	6	5	5	8	8	Sword SV 1 +1 Str

 

SIR DANIEL FANSHAW

Warlord Warrior Unit

Points Value: 108

Unit: Hero	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
1 x Hero with sword, light armour	6	6	6	6(7)	8	9	Tough 2 Hero 3 x HtH, Wound
2 x Bodyguards with swords.	6	6	6	6	8	8	Sword SV 1 +1 Str

 

CAPTAIN HENRY MILTON

Warlord Warrior Unit

Points Value: 108

Unit: Hero	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
1 x Hero with sword, light armour	6	6	6	6(7)	8	9	Tough 2 Hero 3 x HtH, Wound
2 x Bodyguards with swords, light armour.	6	6	6	6(7)	8	8	Sword SV 1 +1 Str

 

CAPTAIN WALTER PASCO

Warlord Warrior Unit

Points Value: 108

Unit: Hero	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
1 x Hero with sword, light armour	6	6	6	6(7)	8	9	Tough 2 Hero 3 x HtH, Wound
2 x Bodyguards with swords, light armour.	6	6	6	6(7)	8	8	Sword SV 1 +1 Str

 

ARTHUR GATFORD

Warlord Warrior Unit

Points Value: 108

Unit: Hero	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
1 x Hero with sword, light armour	6	6	6	6(7)	8	9	Tough 2 Hero 3 x HtH, Wound
2 x Bodyguards with swords	6	6	6	6	8	8	Sword SV 1 +1 Str

 

Begley Trained Band – CALVIERS (1)

Warrior Unit

Points Value: 100

Unit: Handgunners	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
1 x leader with sword, handgun,	4	5	6	6	6	8	Tough Sword SV 1 +1 Str Handgun 10”20” SV3
4 x handgunners with swords	4	5	6	6	6	8	Sword SV 1 +1 Str Handgun 10”20” SV3

 

Begley Trained Band – CALVIERS (2)

Warrior Unit

Points Value: 100

Unit: Handgunners	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
1 x leader with sword, handgun,	4	5	6	6	6	8	Tough Sword SV 1 +1 Str Handgun 10”20” SV3
4 x handgunners with swords	4	5	6	6	6	8	Sword SV 1 +1 Str Handgun 10”20” SV3

 

Begley Trained Band – PIKEMEN

Warrior Unit

Points Value: 223

Unit: Pike Block	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
1 x leader with sword, pike, heavy armour	4	5	6	6(8)	6	8	Tough Sword SV 1 +1 Str Pike SV 1 Cancels charge bonus
11 Pikemen with sword, pike, heavy armour	4	5	6	6(8)	6	8	Sword SV 1 +1 Str Pike SV 1 Cancels charge bonus

 

GATLEY Trained Band – CALVIERS (1)

Warrior Unit

Points Value: 100

Unit: Handgunners	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
1 x leader with sword, handgun,	4	5	6	6	6	8	Tough Sword SV 1 +1 Str Handgun 10”20” SV3
4 x handgunners with swords	4	5	6	6	6	8	Sword SV 1 +1 Str Handgun 10”20” SV3

 

GATLEY Trained Band – CALVIERS (2)

Warrior Unit

Points Value: 100

Unit: Handgunners	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
1 x leader with sword, handgun,	4	5	6	6	6	8	Tough Sword SV 1 +1 Str Handgun 10”20” SV3
4 x handgunners with swords	4	5	6	6	6	8	Sword SV 1 +1 Str Handgun 10”20” SV3

 

oakley Trained Band – CALVIERS

Warrior Unit

Points Value: 118

Unit: Handgunners	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
1 x leader with sword, handgun,	4	5	6	6	6	8	Tough Sword SV 1 +1 Str Handgun 10”20” SV3
5 x handgunners with swords	4	5	6	6	6	8	Sword SV 1 +1 Str Handgun 10”20” SV3

 

Fair Green trained Band – PIKEMEN

Warrior Unit

Points Value: 178

Unit: Pike Block	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
1 x leader with sword, pike, medium armour	4	5	6	6(7)	6	8	Tough Sword SV 1 +1 Str Pike SV 1 Cancels charge bonus
10 Pikemen with sword, pike, medium armour	4	5	6	6(7)	6	7	Sword SV 1 +1 Str Pike SV 1 Cancels charge bonus

 

 

Cannon

Artillery Unit

Points Value: 96

Unit: Cannon	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
3 x Crew, light armour, small cannon	4	5	6	6	6	8	Large, Slow 3 Cannon 20”30”40” SV5 Unstoppable

 

demi- lancers Cavalry

Mounted Unit

Points Value: 216

Unit: Cavalry	Ag	Acc	Str	Res	Init	Co	Special
1 x leader with sword,  lance, Heavy armour, riding warhorse.	4	5	6	6(9)	6	8	Tough, Fast 8, Zealous, Warhorse, 1xHtH SV1 Lance SV3 on charge.
5 x Cavalry with sword,  lance, Heavy armour, riding warhorse.	4	5	6	6(9)	6	7	, Fast 8, Zealous, Warhorse, 1xHtH SV1 Lance SV3 on charge.

 

Special Rules
Command	Friendly units within 10” can use the model’s Co Stat to take command based tests.
Tough	Re-roll a failed Res test.
Dead Eye Shot	Can re-roll one miss.
Wound	Can lose the 'wounds value' of lives before a further Res fail slays. Can't recover pins beyond wounds suffered.
Divine Intervention	Can steal an order dice from an enemy unit within 20” with successful command test. If fail take 1 pin instead.
Fast	Move the basic rate indicated 8”
Large	+1 to hit shooting, can draw line of sight to body. Can draw LOS over non large bodies.
Slow 3	Make the move at a rate of 3”
Zealous	Ignore pins when taking break test. Re-roll failed order test.
Dread	-1 to hit shooting/close combat, -1to break test if defeated by a Dreaded Enemy.
Unstoppable	Shot Penetrates the unit hit and can strike others beyond so long as the target is hit each time.