Roman Scorpio

 Its not really, in fact its probably too big to be honest. Its actually an old dwarven bolt thrower, I think it may be a Marauder Miniatures one,  I'm not sure. 

I had to build the stand out of balsa wood and I'll have to modify a couple of legionaries to act as crew but I think it looks ok!

Jomsvikings for Saga

Saga has been a little neglected in my gaming world of late, however local gamer Joe decided that it might be fun to put on a Saga tournament at Wellington Warlords annual Call to Arms event. So in the interewsts of being an active participant in this little hobby of ours I signed up to roll dice for a weekend (with the agreement of my wife obviously!).

However this then begs the question 'What force to play?' I've always played Saga with Anglo Saxons, there something about the plucky Fyrd kicking some Viking butt that has always appealed to me however I thought I'd be a little silly and play Jomsvikings. Why Jomsvikings, well because they're completely nuts, have a weird battle board, can only have hearthguard and warriors and cannot take any allies or mercenaries. So it should prove challenging.

Oh did I forget to say that I'd only painted 4 of them at this point? Tournaments are always good motivation for getting something finished aren't they!

I needed 7 pts of Joms, we would only be playing with 6 pts with the 7th being an option should we choose to mess with our lists a little. This didn't really help me as I couldn't have anything but Jomsvikings so it would just have to be a bucket of hearthguard and warriors. So here we have my 6 pts of Jomsvikings (the 7th being some beserkers I heard kicking about thai never got used).

6x Hearthguard

6x Hearthguard

8x Warriors

8x Warriors

8x Warriors

Warlord

Almost all the models are Gripping Beast, I picked these up second hand and have been meaning to paint them for a while. I've also thrown in a few Footsore models too (I think they're from the Goths range) and added a casualty to the Jomsviking Warlords base, its one of the terrible Wargames Factory plastics that I dragged from the bits box!

The tournament was a blast, I went in to it with a master plan, try and get my warlord into combat with my opponents warlord as much as possible. And guess what, it worked as I managed to get my warlord killed the most times out of the six games. I didn't take many pics,  however here's two of my games:

Here my Joms valiantly try and defeat Alix's Norman's (I lost!).

Reg's Vikings try to steal my livestock! Turns out they wanted to be stolen as the cow killed two of my warriors and the sheep beat my hearthguard in melee!

I didn't place anywhere, but then I never expected to, it takes a deft hand to make Jomsvikings effective in Saga v2, and a deft hand I am not!

Joe is planning an Age of Crusades tournament next year, I think I may have to take part, simply to make some connections and promote the hobby.