Saga - My Anglo-Danes
Levies
Even though Levies are potentially poor in-game, I decided I wanted to add some flavour to my games and utilise some Saxon battle board abilities unused thus far.
There are abilities on the Saxon board that give bonuses to larger units (10 or more) so a 12 man spear and shield levy unit was born.
I bought a Dark Ages Warriors plastic box from Gripping Beast and had some sprues from Wargames Factory from Warlord Games (during one of their fabulous sprue sales).
I also wanted to take advantage of a deal that was on at Entoyment as they launched the fact they now stocked Footsore miniatures. (gaming store based in Poole, Dorest, well worth a visit, also online)
Though I loved painting their shields I chose to use transfers for the majority of the plastic levies. I picked the transfers up at Salute (again, a great source of postage free purchases and a fantastic social day out).
I also found that the metal miniatures were causing a minor gaming issue. Not really an issue, but just a personal preference thing, where when you move the miniatures in-game you expect all the minis in a unit to be a similar weight but 4 are a totally different weight to the rest. It occasionally results in minis being knocked over etc.
I decided that the 4 “early saxon youths” levies would join some my Black Tree design metal warriors to form a new 8 man warrior unit. I still have tons of plastic unbuilt warrior minis to back fill and complete the levies unit again.
ADVICE - Follow the instruction fully - I used a tan colour on the shields instead of white, thinking I knew better for some reason. This has resulted in a less punchy design finish and a muddy look that isn't great.
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