Turkish hero for HotT

It's been fun thinking about how to depict the range if 3, 4 and 6 point bases in the Turkish VSF HotT army. I decided that there should be a gunner hero, a tribute to Mohammed the Gunner, if you like.

I used figures from the Strelets Turkish Artillery 1877 set, and some pieces from the spares box. The gun barrel came from the GW Dwarf set, mounted on some Airfix napoleonic artillery wheels.

As this is a great hero, I thought he ought to have a standard bearer with flag too. I'm reasonably happy with the result.

The army so far, with blades, shooters, and the hero.

I think the next couple of bases will be pretty unsurprising, but I'm still formulating/plotting/scheming some more interesting and thematic bases to add. The goal will be a 72 point Big Battle army, but.. one step at a time I think.

Turk shooters for HotT

Next step with the VSF Turks... four bases of shooters. I thought shooters were less likely to want to be easily seen, hence no banners.

Nine bases of infantry so far, 18 points. A significant chunk of the infantry core of the army (although there will be more to do to get to 72 points.

It's ......

Another two bases of blade for the new HotT project. The army will be a VSF Turkish opponent to the Brits. The question is, how will this be different from the Brits? By different I mean the look, and the composition/play style .... keep guessing.

A new project... the same madness!!!

Finished the first three bases of a new project ... all I'll say is that it's a HotT army.... guess away.

Armies of Dust ... first outing

This was quite a few weeks ago now, and I can't recall enough of the battle to provide a detailed AAR. I thought the photos might be of interest, as a matter of record. The AoD faced Andy's Kingdoms of Men. The AoD had an exceptional outing. A couple of lucky die rolls took the Knights out of play early on.. a very lucky break given their hitting power.

Kingdoms of Men on the left, Armies of Dust on the right

Re-animated behemoth and Mummies on the AoD left

AoD Spear

The swarm go in first.. I mis-used them.. sacrificed them for no gain. A little to learn on how to get the best from them.

Enslaved Guardians

The latest unit addition to the Mantic Armies of Dust army is this 'regiment' of Enslaved Guardians. The figures are traditional 54mm size. The colour scheme retains the bronze/red dominance with blue highlights.

Mummies and scarabs .. mwahahahahahahaha

A little more painting progress on the Armies of Dust army for Mantic's Kings of War rules. The 'swarm' represents scarab beetles and other swarmy scuttley squeamy greeblies. The army box set came with three bases. I also had two bases I'd bought years ago from the GW Tomb Kings range. I created two regiment bases, one with the three bases, the other with the two augmented with some 'stone blocks' and other bits.

I've also completed a regiment of 'mummies'. The box set comes with 20 mummy figures, requiring assembly. With the multi basing approach I decided to put 10 on a base, producing two regiments.

The '10 figures per base' regime works well for these figures, the troop density sits well. The first photo juxtaposes the mummies with two regiments of spear.

I have created coherence with basing technique, the spear accentuating red with blue gems, the mummies using the same blue on the shields.

These have been a 'quick win' in painting terms with less effort having to be applied to assembly, leaving the energy for painting.

The army is finally coming together.