Weekender XLBS: Warren’s Vikings Warband; From TV To Tabletop
April 23, 2017 by warzan
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I’ve not done any hobby either. For months. Sigh.
I’m hobby-ing while I watch 🙂
at the moment I’m removing maskol from stormcast eternals where I left the inserts candy blue and the hammers silver.
Ben and Justin great job yesterday guys tho you still be witches for being in 2 places at once. I have informed the Ordo malleus of the god Emperor’s holy Inquisition. Expect the chamber militant shortly 😉
AHEM
Happy Sunday
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday!!
@ Warzan You could also die by the Blood Eagle as a Viking. If you do not know what that is look it up but not at bedtime 😉 😉 😉 Also, I think you have mentioned your surname as being Johnson- yes it is common in Christian countries- but is also an Anglicised version of the Scandinavian name Johansson. Could you actually have Norse blood in your family line ???? a thing to ponder. I mean all the action the Vikings had in Ireland you never know. I mean I have Family in the Republic with the surname of… Read more »
Also if you do have Norse blood, that would be a strong point to put to your wife ( uuuu-urrrr again) for getting that Hair-cut.:-)
It’s Johnston rather than Johnson, so is John’s Town rather than son of John.
Still better than my surname – it being the same name as a sub-par biscuit producer.
That’s why you write an “auto” biography after getting your name changed…. 😉
Can we use CB radio to contact?
10/4 Brother Rubber 😉
I was just a smigin to young to get into that, but watched all my slightly older uncles install them in thier bedrooms and even cars lol
Then i discovered Tony Hancock was the true granddaddy of it all.
Yeah i have a real soft spot for the CB, time for a revival!
Ah the Radio Ham. A true classic. Strangely I have the radio broadcast of it on a 33rpm vinyl
Oh aye my dad had one of those. I believe his sign was Rubber Duck.
Only while in a convoy.
Happy Sunday!
The Sunday after Salute and my feet are sore, and my card balance significantly impacted! Must catch up with your boy’s work there, although in 6 hours I didn’t see them once!
The new Norse Gods book by Neil Gaiman is good accessible read about their lore! Enjoying it.
It is brilliant. I am loving that book
A Neil Gaiman book I missed!? I must correct that error quickly.
You show us these Hasslefree models the day AFTER Salute!?! You @#%&$# &#$@ing %#&&%$!!!
And don’t forget that Harald Hardrada, “the last great Viking”, was the third contender for the Throne in 1066…
To go back to the cost of minus briefly. In the end it comes down to the games you want to play which is either skirmish or mass battles and your budget. If you want to wargame and have only £x then you either buy cheap miniatures (28mm) or you drop down to 20/15/10mm etc. In the end you still gaming
Also depends on what your circle are doing too a fair bit.
This is true but you can still pick up 28mm models for under £1 and there fit for purpose
Yup!
Tell you what – if ever I invest £70 in a single model it’s going in a cabinet and nowhere near a table-top!
It was also interesting you talking about 1/72. There are some nice ancients figures in 20mm and that brings the cost down to about 45p a figure for metal. Again more than suitable for larger sized games
and of course there are a range of plastic 1:72 ancients for pocket money gaming
@Warzan lovely minis from Hasslefree, I have a few myself including the same pair for Ragnar and Lagertha. I would say for your shield maiden unit for Saga I wouldn’t bother with the 8 as Justin advised, you want to make them unique so why make them warriors, keep them at 4 and use them as elites, make them a feature of your force and they could stand in as your Beserkers, or regular Hearthguard. I better go, touching up some Vikings and Irish for this afternoons Clontarf game
@warzan Small remark on the reason why vikings started raiding. There had been a slight increase in climate around the 7th and 8th century which combined with some better farming techniques led to an increase in population. During this ‘pre-raiding’ period, they traded with the British Isles and the Frankish empire as they had for centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire. When in the 9th century the climate worsened (only slight, it’s not like it was a nuclear winter :p ), it helped push the population surplus overseas. At that period the western kingdoms were weakened (compared to… Read more »
Great stuff mate, thanks for this!
Thanks, thought you guys might like it ^^ It also means that when it comes to dark ages, you can fight almost anyone with anything!
The Hasslefree mini’s look great btw, I didn’t know they existed until recently. By then I had already converted my own version of the tv characters ( http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/historical-games/forum/topic/neves1789s-historical-figures/ ) Nothing too fancy as I speedpainted my vikings, but I thought I’d show them anyway ^^
I have read in some mighty tomes written by Viking scholars that in what is now France they raised the monasteries as they were used as the Kings stables a well as for more traditional loot.
There re mentions I think in the British chronicles going back to the 500-700AD that raiders from the North pillaged the coast of Britain and Ireland and probably Svotland . It was only when they hit Lindisfarne did anyone take notice
@warzan you know what I really love about Ferrus? he is Hasslefree’s own take on a character that sometimes gets lost in the swath of Fantasy heroes we have today – The Axeman, Druss the Legend, signature character of the late, great David Gemmell and star of the first book of the Drenai series Legend, armed with his famed butterfly-bladed axe Snaga. I honestly cannot say enough good things about Gemmell’s works – his Drenai series (heroic fantasy at it’s best), the Rigante books (jumping from Viking invasions to a Jacobite flavour in the latter-half), the time & genre jumping… Read more »
Are your Viking boats going to be at sea? They wont have the sail open and trimmed. I am debating on a printable scenery viking boat. Only issue is it appears to be missing the mast.
Happy Sunday! @warzan if you haven’t already found them I remember seeing some dynamic looking sheildmaidens on bad sqiddo.
The Squiddo Shieldmaidens are great 😀 .
Seconded! Bad Squiddo’s shieldmaidens are ace 😎
@warzan in looking up info on my family name I.discovered this The About the Hubbard surname Landing of Hubba and Hingua on the Coast of Northunbria in 866 The Origin of the Hubbard Name I have Viking ancestors not only on the Holt/Abbot line, but also on the Hubbard line. The Hubbard/Hobart ancestors have been traced all the way back to John Hubba, who was born in England about 1274. According to English genealogists and historians, people with the surname of Hubba, Hubbard, and Hobart are descended from a Viking sea king named Hubba (Ubba), whose father was the Viking… Read more »
Told the wife, and she just looked at me and said thsts nice dear probably explains the 10 stupid swords you own….lol
Happy Sunday. I’d love to call into the show. I love reading the Saga’s they’re the comics of the day. From people being speared through their “Gentleman’s Equipment” and pinned to the ground left to die to guys running around catching thrown spears and being total badasses. Anything you see in an action movie with swords or spears was probably done in the Saga’s. My favourite is a Saga where one of the combatants goes into a frenzy and as per usual begins biting his shield and frothing at the mouth. His opponent then ran over and kicked it into… Read more »
I play 1/72 20mm and its a great scale to play. You have an.abundance of armour to choose from, simply to to all the model kits at 1/72 scale. Its definitely worth getting into, especially at a cost level, it makes so much more sense.
I love 20mm I can just walk down to my local Toyworld and buy a whole Flames army for under $70. Tonnes of obscure kits out there as well since 20mm has been around forever so you’ll never not be able to find those armoured cars or that specific type of Panzer.
I’m currently looking at finally diving into 6mm ACW and man is it cheap and looks incredible
Do it 6mm is awesome for ACW
And, it’s great to have some Saga talk back on Sagaday er Sunday! I was missing it.
we’re having a big dark age battle this afternoon, should be fun Irish v Viking
Have fun gentlemen, and Irish FTW!
1003 years ago today they did. Let’s hope history repeats on the anniversary
Let me know how it goes.
There is a report for the site being written up with technicolour photographs and everything.
For an other option concerning Ragnar:
http://www.brother-vinni.com/shop.htm#!/SAGA/c/14147797/offset=0&sort=normal
These miniatures deserve some attention
that’s where @Dignity got his Ragnar from, so at least when they face off the Ragnar twins will be easily distinguishable
@warzan, historically speaking, it is unknown if Ragnar was 1 person or several Ragnars whose deeds were combined over time into 1 saga. So it is entirely feasible that both you and @dignity could field warbands lead by Ragnar Lothbrok
On the subject of vacuum formed sails they are thin, but are they good? I don’t like them. They just don’t look right to me.
I’m not a fan either all it takes is one bad snip or a bad bump and your fancy sale is now cracked. I personally use paper sails that can be easily replaced.
Always been partial to doped canvas myself
Hobby time is where you find it. I’ve got full-time job with a 40 minute commute one way. We’ve got two boys, aged 10 and 14, who are involved with damned near every activity in which boys of that age can participate (school-related and not), There’s one day each week where we have to leave the house by 6:30 am and the last of us doesn’t make it home before 9 pm. Now with baseball in full swing (pun only slightly intended), it’s basically the worst time of the year. Despite all of this, even If i’m only taking 30… Read more »