Motley Crew (part 1)

Z 219 - Z 222 - Z 223 - Z 225 - Z226

Z 234 - Z 238 - Z240

Big Al brought along some mixed Dark Ages 15mm figures to try to sell them - the box lid had this message:  "74 (virtually weaponless!) old minifigs - but very patient person with 'Micro-Drill' may well make something of them.  £5 for the lot (6-8p per figure).  Will be 'binned' if no sale.  Box must be returned."

Needless to say there were no takers.  Rather than going into the bin I offered to sort them out at a reduced price - Al gave them to me for nowt.

Some were on multiple bases (2, 3 or 4) and many were singles.  The first tasks were to separate, clean up and identify.  After consulting an old Minifigs catalogue I came up with the following:

1 x Z 219 - Ottonian HI, sp, pointed shield
4 x Z 222 - Viking huscarl, axe
1 x Z 223 - Viking Bondi, sp
4 x Z 225 - Vikikn berserk, sw
4 x Z 226 - Viking ulfhednar, sp
7 x Z 234 - Anglo-Saxon speaman in cap
1 x Z 238 - Saxon select fyrd, sp
20 x Z 240 - Late Saxon huscarl, axe

42 out of 74 identified so far.  I will now have to consult "Armies of the Dark Ages 600-1066" by Ian Heath to work out the rest.

Obviously this project is going to take some time.  First priority will be the Vikings as I can use them in my growing Welsh army.  The one Ottonian will probably get donated to the club.


Round Up

Monday 26th March 2018 - WDW

N.W. Frontier (Afghans v Brits) - "The Men Who Would Be Kings"
"Liberte" - boardgame - politics & intrigue in revolutionary France
DBM - Later Carthaginian v Patrician Roman - once again I held on magnificently to my assigned flank whilst my C-in-C crashed and burned.  Such is life!

Thursday 29th March 2018 - Halifax

Went to Halifax Modeller's World but only picked up one box of 1/72nd figures:

HaT 8128 - The Assyrian Army

This will go into the 'stock pile' to swell the numbers of unpainted plastics.

Seems that HMW is swerving towards the 1/32 (or 1/35) scale figures these days.  If I wanted those I would take the much shorter journey to Pontefract.

Tuesday 3rd April 2018

Caught up with TA & Co output - two more DBA v3.0 games:

Athenians vs.Early Achaemenid Persians - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWRVFq6oslY&feature=youtu.be

Lombards vs. Magyars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ugonKxFkLw

Thursday 5th April 2018

Whilst trawling on the Internet I found a post about the new version of Saga:

Saga 1 vs Saga 2 : Main differences spotted so far (31/3/18)

https://www.madaxeman.com/Downloads/SAGA2.pdf