World's Edge Wargaming

Didn't post anything for a whileas I was far too busy with other stuff. My spring was quite hectic in Work (had 7 business trips since beginning of April) and I was organizing the miniature side of Ropecon 2019. Both went well, but didn't really have the push to write anything here. Well as I was organizing the Ropecon, it allowed me to also organize some events that I have wanted to have there. Most important was Armies on Parade competition. As I decided it was best to run as a public vote, I also got to participate myself. I made a (smallish) display board for my shadow elves and also finished them to full 8 points Saga force (actually I'm still missing a wizard from that, but well close to it). I'll write more about how I made the board, but this is about the miniatures. The first pics are also from the first game I had with them. I introduced my friend to Saga age of Magic and to the second edition of Saga and he used my Undead force. So it was quite a nice c...

After playing my first game with the force, with some back up from older armies, I got good motivation on getting more soldiers done. Thus I built and painted ten more infantry: Models from left to right:  Unconverted White lion standard, Shade with a weapon swap and new haircut from green stuff, unconverted white lion hornblower, Oathmark elf with Perry mounted spear, Oathmark elf with GW spearelf head and Perry archer hands, Oathmark elf with Perry men at arm hands, Swordmaster champion with new sword and shield, , Maiden guard with Oathmark head and Perry axehead, GW spearelf body with dark elf crossbow arms and an Oathmark head and finally an Avatars of war Dark elf hero with most of the spikes removed and weapons changed. And here is the merry bunch.

We played a big four player Warlords of Erehwon match few weeks ago. The system works very well in the multiplayer format. The game was also a treat, as we were playing with old friends and everyone had got some new stuff for the occasion. We used Age of Sigmar Open war cards for the scenario bit modified, so that we had three objective cards, and each of us had a secret objective and a twist. It has been some time after the game, so details have lost in time (like tears in rain), but here are some action shots: The board. My elves deployed. Janne's elves deployed. The view to Undead and knightly side. My king took the front charge. Birds eye view. Knights advance, Lauri had painted the whole army for this game. Great effort. They were supported by a bear. Overall view. The undead advance. Prince takes damage and pins. The other elves go for the knights. Village side of the table. In game action. ...

Many first games these days. This time the rules system was The Horse and the Musket. Last autumn I painted some cossacks to field against my friend's Carelian Dragoons. It took some time for us to arrange the game (and my friend to paint those Dragoons), but now was the day. I did some terrain suitable for the event during the week; based some cheap fir trees, did some pines from ready armatures and built a timber shed in the old Finnish traditional style. The scenario was that the cossacks were looting some grains from the storage shed and got ambushed by the dragoons. The cossacks had to escape from the table edge where the dragoons entered the board. Both of us had 6 riders. I had a better force as my troops had better weapons (lances). There is a system for generating traits for the troopers by drawing cards, which balanced it out as  we drew traits for our troops and two of my troops were drunk (fittingly) and two had slow horses. We didn't have on foot models, so we ...