[Kris Dray]

I would agree with the comment above about Fireforge, but their weapons are very robust.

A combination of Gripping Beast, Aventine, Essex and Wargames Foundry could make a historically accurate but metallic army. There are some lower quality plastics listed by the Plastic Soldier Review. You would have a better time finding plastic Goths, I think, but since the Turks and Arabs pretty much put an end to Byzantium you might look in that direction. Good luck!

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by Kris Dray.

[Kris Dray]

Regular and large sized units need to be differentiated by their widths, not their depth. So 8 figure wide regular units and 12 wide large units would work. I would be ok with 8×2 for Roman cohorts. Barbarian 8×4 for a regular warband (the depth is purely aesthetic), and 12 x4 for large units.

I didn’t say it above, so thanks for the help! The suggestion for ranges and distance on a 6×4 table is an excellent one.

Playing with 2000 point warbands from Warlords of Erehwon with 5″ deployment zones has been quite fun, but at 28mm (especially slightly heroic) models in 2×5 units it gets a bit crowded.

I think I will stick with standard units (still thinking of cohorts at 8×3) but 9+ inches to a 12-man front I can’t imagine what a 20×4 unit would be like to move, even at 10mm or 15mm. If I stick to standard warband or phalanx, at 8 x 4, I expend fewer models, get more units, and if I ever get to a massive table I can always stick the two 8×4 units together to make a large unit of frontage 320mm. Does that make sense? I would like to get as large a number and variety of units on the table as possible without it looking overwhelmed.

Thanks again

[Kris Dray]

I think the technically Caesarian and EIR are different eras and so wouldn’t normally be mixed. I guess there must have been a time when some units were having new kit rolled out to them and others didn’t have it yet? Perhaps a way to rationalise it. For friendly games, not the end of the world.

Scratch that question. I suppose technically the Caesarians who invaded Gaul are the forerunners of the Early Imperial Legionary. My cross-wired brain was thinking Gallic Celts, British Celts, Germanic tribes…the early Imperials from Claudius’ invasion of Britain will work fine with my EIR starter. I am hoping that the SPQR Caesarians will work fine on 20mm squares and fold right into a Caesarian starter army. Should be plenty of battles with, hopefully, a civil war mixed in there somewhere. Maybe a mix of Victrix, Gripping Beast and Aventine Republicans to fight the Punic Wars…

Right now, I am mainly aiming at EIR and the Germanic tribes which will hopefully work well both as mercenaries against the Gauls for Caesar and in some fall of Rome scenario against late Romans if I live that long!

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by Kris Dray.

[Kris Dray]

Wow! Very baleful! I haven’t paid much attention to the monster list but I will have to see what the barbarians and gnolls might likely field. I will be happy if I get my monstrosity of a mammoth and howdah plus 5 marauding spearmen all finished by the end of the week and I can get someone to agree to let me field it.

[Kris Dray]

Hi Samuel,

Thanks for the great reply! Good on you going to Alaska and seeing family too. Alaska is on my bucket list for sure, and the Yukon, probably in a fifth wheel as my wife loves our lonesome place but is not enamored of sleeping on the ground where large bruins roam. I have several friends who have been mauled, and we are not as fast as we used to be, so I guess I can’t blame her.

I have accumulated enough miniatures for about a dozen grandkids to play WoE…only six have played here at the ranch and four are hooked but good. I am thinking of getting a few of the Antares, BA and K47 starter sets, especially for the youngsters with military parents. Is TOH the samurai game?

It is 60 miles to the nearest game club and FLGS, not to mention to the nearest Walmart or hospital (doctors don’t stick here well) but the driving is just part of it. I’ve driven myself to town with blood poisoning, broken bones, you name it. Hauling livestock has been a bit tricky at times, but we manage.

Anyway, I too am retiring and hope to be more active in wargames. Thanks for the reply and good gaming to you too!

[Kris Dray]

Hi Tim. Just a quick update.

It is indeed a shame this place is such a ghost town. I deleted my facebook account a while back and the robocalls to my cell dropped way off. Within a week after getting a new account just to follow some WoE groups, robocalls started ramping up again. Enough of that.

I have tons of questions, but so it goes. My barbarians got thrashed by elves who were very gnarly in their spangly armor…mounted lord and guard, rangers, archers galore. Just curious about rules, etc.

Best wishes

[Kris Dray]

Thanks Tim. I am really enjoying this game and I look forward to traveling nearly 70 miles through the mountains to play against adults. I have to tell you, if you can teach it to 4 11-13 boys and keep them all engaged for hours with the Beast scenario and coming back for more, I am well pleased with the game.

I have 3 barbarian warbands finished, just have to put texture and basing materials on their skirmish trays and paint the mammoth and howdah. I have three complete Chaos warbands, again, just need to texture movement trays, two complete gnoll warbands on the paint table, and a boatload of kickstarter A Song of Ice and Fire minis that will make endless human and knightly retinue warbands. Did I mention I have a pile of grandsons, adopted and otherwise, and I am painting up some armies to send to family in England. And I have 3 different Shieldwolf warbands coming from a kickstarter early next year (I hope).

Not to worry about the forum…similar happenings on WarSeer forum and folks used to be quite chatty and helpful there. Times change. Glad you are enjoying WoE, and I hope the community keeps growing. Cheers!

[Kris Dray]

In the last few years, I have begun to feel that life is way too short to burn on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. but it seems many of the hobby forums have seen a bit of a downturn for a variety of reasons. Even as social media, and our hobby (based on all the new games and plastic out there) seems to be going strong. There are several pretty good gaming communities I would like to access on facebook, but I will have to activate my account to access them. Ah, well…are you enjoying WoE? The rulebook released is pretty good, I like the game mechanic and Rick Priestly is a fine writer, but it was a bit lackluster and poorly edited. Hopefully the second edition, if there is one, will be a little snazzier, better edited and produced. I think it is a great game. My last 40k game was with a good friend, but it was remarkably annoying under the latest rules. You can be so much more involved in this game rather than waiting to get shot off the table by turn 2 as I have seen in many 40K games. I hope Warlord Games keeps pushing WoE and introduces some outstanding new miniatures to help back it. Time will tell…

[Kris Dray]

Hello from the northern Rockies!

I started playing Warhammer fantasy and 40K more than a decade ago with my son and my friends. Easing into retirement and back into wargaming I have discovered…some 70 miles away (close in our country)…that my FLAGS (that’s L ocal A lmost) is starting a WoE league. I was happy to buy the book and have put together some warbands from Warriors of Chaos and taught WoE to 5 of my grandsons 10 to 14 years old. It was a huge success. Looking forward to playing more games, maybe a few casual tournaments.

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