Last weekend I visited my friend Peter and bought a lot of bits and also a bunch of GW Empire figures. The primarily objective with this buy was to get more medieval riders for my future medieval-siege-campaign but also figures to convert for my pirate-game. Some of the figures will be converted to sailors and also townfolk and this will be a fun task to do. The total number of riders are 29 horses and 27 riders and that will be a impressive storming-force on the gamingtable. In addition to these riders I also have another 12 riders from Deus vult. The total price was 54 Euro and that is a bargain if you also consider the excellent paintjob on the yellow and blue figures. Finally I will use the yellow and blue soldiers to guard the fort in the pirate-skirmish-game and the cannon will be converted to give the pirates ground-support when storming on land. A nice find indeed.
Last weekend I visited my friend Peter for a buy of GW Empire figures.Together with this buy I also got a lot of usable bits that I will primarily use for my headhunters and pirates/sailors. Among these bits I also got a set of treasure- coffins! :) Perfect for all kinds of skirmishes that will take place in pirate/medieval-settings. It gave me a lot of inspiration just taking these photographs and I hope that I will inspire you too. In my next report I will also present my Empire-figures that I bought.
This week I bought some figures at Alpha-games here in Sweden. They had sale and some of the figures I bought were really cheap. I had been looking on these figures for some time and one of my friends sent me an sms and gave me a tip that now was the time to order. I chose to buy some pirates that will be my special-characters in the pirate game: Blood and bounty. Some of the figures are really nicely detailed and will play the pirate-captains. I also bought a package(30) of cheap zulu-warriors and I will convert them to headhunters and indian-tribes men in the pirate-game. My plan for these headhunters are that all the players in the game will roll a dice each round and the one that get the 6 will control them. This will make the pirate-game unpredictable and also more fun in my opinion. I will convert the figures and make them very colour-full and a mix of several features from different tribes. The rating of these zulu-warriors are 3 out of 5 and I think the details could be more "crisp" and the poses are also a bit static. Other figures from WGF are really nice and they come with a lot of extra bits but not in this package... The box is nice and also the graphics and this is a improvment if you look at earlier releases from this company but the priority must be the content before the packaging... Finally I bought 4 soviet zombies and also 4 soviet zombie bombs to the game: Secrets of the third reich by West wind miniatures. The pirates are manufactured by Black scorpion and the zulu-warriors by Wargames factory. All the figures are in the scale of 28mm.
