(another) New Member Intro

[Happymcclap]

Hi All

Finally tracked this forum down, i was a member of the old GW based specialist game forums but lost track of the site when the official boards got closed, am really pleased to have found this place at long last.

Im a long time Warmaster player, though in recent years have moved from Fantasy to Historical, although my current project is a Warmaster A Song of Ice and Fire army using both Magister Militum and TB line figures, which i hope to upload some pics of soon.

Well, thats the intro over, just glad to find an active Warmaster forum.

[Lex]

WB Happy

[Happymcclap]

thanks for the welcome Lex, yours is one of the few names i recognise from the old boards

[jchaos79]

welcome, looking forward to see those magister millitum and TB lines figures

[Geep]

Welcome to the forum,

I don't recognise the names of those model lines and am unfamiliar with 'A song of Ice and Fire', but I'm interested to see what you do with them.

[Happymcclap]

TB Line are an Italian company with a small, but beautifully formed range of 10mm historical miniatures, here's a link to their Central European Heavy Infantry (which could easily work in a Bretonnian or Imperial army):
 
http://www.tridentebologna.it/dettagli_E.php?id=TB4170

Whilst Magister Militum is UK based and make a huge range of historical 10mm stuff, i mainly use their Age of Knights range, which again make for almost perfect Bretonnians.

A song of ice and fire is a fairly popular series of books by G R R Martin recently turned into a HBO series ( A Game of Thrones - named after the first book in the series). So basically my project is a medieval army just painted in the various house colours.

[Dave]

I always thought Martin's world would be a great setting for a WM game. The Seven Kingdoms would work but I think the Free Cities or those around Slavers Bay would make for an even more diverse set of army lists. Given that they haven't been fully explored in the novels I'd think there'd be a lot of opportunity there to flesh them out via a wargame.

[Happymcclap]

The latest book "A Dance with Dragons" has quite abit of info about the various Slavers Bay forces, im waiting for soemone to collate them at Westeros.org before i look at making lists.

Its beeen fun coming up with traits for the various hero's, and i have made extensive use of the Polish lists "Noble Attributes" trait.


If youre interested i could post up, or mail you my work in progress on the 7 kingdoms lists (ive also done the Nights Watch, Dothraki, Unsullied and Wildlings), i could do with some feedback, other than from my mates!

[Lex]

Drop it here Happy, we will give it a place and a good read !!

If need be, mail them to me direct and I will put them up

[Happymcclap]

OK, Lex i will do, give me a day or so to correct typo's and make them more legible (they are currently more like notes than full lists, but it wont take long to tidy them up, but this is my work in progress Northern List:

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The North “Winter is Coming”

Type Attack Range Hits Armour Command Unit Points Min/Max Special
Size per unit

Peasants/Levy Inf 3 - 2 - - 3 25 -/4 *1
Archers Inf 2 30 3 - - 3 40 -/4 -
*Infantry Inf 3 - 4 6+ - 3 55 4/8 -
*Household Foot Inf 3 - 4 5+ - 3 65 1/4 -
Crannogmen Inf 2 15 3 - - 3 35 -/1 *2
Clansmen Inf 3 15 4 6+ - 3 65 -/4 *3

Mtd Clansmen Cav 3 15 4 6+ - 3 80 -/2 *2
Free Riders Cav 3 - 3 6+ - 3 70 -/2 -
*Retainers Cav 3 - 4 5+ - 3 120 1/4 *4
Knights Cav 3 - 4 4+ - 3 135 -/1 *5

*General Gen +2 - - - 8 1 100 1 -
Lord Ldr +1 - - - 8 1 80 -/2 *6
Captain Sub +1 - - - 7 1 30 -/2 -

Options:

Ned Stark Gen +2 - - - 9 1 +45 -/1 *7,8
The “Greatjon” Umber Ldr +2 - - - 8 1 +20 -/1 *9
Stakes Include stakes with any Archers - +5 Any *10
Veteran Archers Inf 2 30 3 6+ - 3 +15 up-to *11
half

*1 = Unreliable
*2 = Skirmish
*3 = Warband
*4 = Shock
*5 = Knights
*6 = Noble Attributes
*7 = “Leader of Men”, all leaders and subordinates within 20cm of Ned Stark can give orders using Ned's command value
*8 = “Ice”, When attached to a stand and in combat you may force an enemy to re-roll 1 successful armour save
*9 = “Charismatic Leader” – Counts all rolls on the Noble Attributes chart as – Charismatic Leader, ie 1 command roll can be re-rolled per game
*10 = Stakes
*11 = Longbow

Peasants/Levy – Untrained and ill equipped, mainly used when numbers are of the essence, or in desperate times

Archers -  Lightly armoured  troops, not retained, recruited at need.

Infantry – Regular full time soldiers, equipped with spears, shields, helmets, and mainly leather armour with some chain.

Household Foot – Household guards, well armed and armoured with chain, helmets, shields, and handweapons.

Crannogmen – Skirmishing Infantry, adept in marshes and swamps, known to use poisoned weapons.

Clansmen – Mountain clansmen from the far North, lightly armoured in the main in leathers/hides, shields and some chain, yet ferocious fighters.

Mounted Clansmen – Make use of short stocky ponies

Free Riders – Mercenaries and poor Knights who can not afford the heavier armour

Retainers – A Lords Household and Household Guard. Including younger sons and minor lords.

Knights – Knights are rare in the North, but these represent those few that are there and powerful Lords and their immediate kin

Warden of the North – Since time immemorial the head of house Stark

Lord – A great Lord of the North such as an Umber, Karstark, Bolton, Manderley etc

Captain – Commander of the household guard or son of a Lord, or very minor Lord.





*Compulsory Troops per 1000pts = 6 units@405pts + General = 100

[Brutalrage]

welcome to the forums, and great start dropping a list already!
will check it out later, im interested

[Happymcclap]

thanks, i have now sent the entire article(12 lists, a misc section and an appendix) to Lex so it might get posted in full at some point, i'd ike to hear your thoughts once youve read over it.

[Brutalrage]

well looking at the army list, its bigger then what im used to from WM (choice-wise) but looks pretty colorful.

rlly curious about the 'special rules' *1, 2*, etc.