![]() ![]() I wasn't much into history at that time, perhaps it was mere curiosity and the Warhammer brand. I never played it and can't remember exactly why I bought it. I picked it up in my heyday of playing Warhammer Fantasy Battles (5th edition, if I recall correctly) in the late 1990s. The Huscarles have a morale of 9, so as 'Winter King' tournament rules limit armies to 1850 points if you use more than 4 characters, it is a bit of a waste of your Cyning to have him lead the Huscarles when you need every character you can get.Ībove is another mixed unit and below a separate shot of some Coerls who aren't very visible in the other shots as they found up behind the thegns in these mixed units.WAB was the first ancients ruleset I ever encountered. These are my Huscarles, which by rights should be the bodyguard for my Cyning in a later period army, but one of the big weaknesses of an Anglo-Saxon army is that the thegns have pretty poor morale (just 6) so need as many characters as you can afford to lead them. But I did have a 'Gripping Beast' unarmoured priest, which with a cardboard cross on stick became my standard bearer. I couldn't find a figure I like for this, looking and failing to find something 'Dark Age' but 'Clerical' in my Fantasy figure collection. The army list lets you field an 'Abbod', well worth having as a unit so equipped gets to re-roll all its misses in the first round of combat. ![]() This is one unit equipped with their large cross flag. I didn't get time to buy the excellent 'Little Big Man Studio' flags before putting them in the field (I have since), but fitted them out with a few 'print offs' of them - complete with 'spoiler' green lines, just to get the size of their flagpoles right. 8-9th century) Anglo-Saxon army- and to be honest could be used for earlier too- up to 2200 points. Once I've don't these I can field the army as a Middle-period (ie. I've also got another 30 or so more thegns and coerls left to even start painting, and 30 odd more unarmoured earlier period 'West Wind' Saxons, which can easily be used as coerls. Here's a close up of the figure I'm using for now as my Cyning (King), but he may get displaced by a 'Gripping Beast' King Alfred figure once I'm happy with the paint job. The unit above is the one I use for the Cyning's own unit. Warhammer historical battles plus#All told I have a unit of 24 Huscarles armed with two-handed battle axe - using this makes it a later Anglo-Danish army- and enough painted for 4/5 units of thegnsand coerls (depending on whether I make them 24 or 32 figure units), plus 34 'gebur' skirmishers. Still everything done, I set a date for a battle for the next week. The problem was I had to get them done by mid-January! So a week or so into December, I thought I'd throw caution to the wind and see if I could paint this army up. Warhammer historical battles full#In the process, I counted up all the figures I had, compared it to the 'Shieldwall' supplement and realised I had virtually the perfect number for a full Middle to Late Anglo-Saxon Army! This was not at a time a tempting prospect and my first thought was to 'cheat' by painting up some of these figs as Romano-British. On, Warhammer Historical.I had planned to field a Romano-British army for the annual 'Winter King' Warhammer Ancient Battles tournament that my new club has every year, but although I had three units painted and some more to paint, I realised that I was quite a bit short of a full army and would need to lay out around £150 for more figures. It is a rulebook for historical wargames developed from the popular Warhammer Fantasy Battle by Jervis Johnson, Rick Priestley and the Perry brothers. Warhammer Ancient Battles (often referred to as 'WAB' and sometimes Warhammer Historical) is a ruleset for miniatures wargames produced by Games Workshop's Warhammer Historical Wargames imprint. Covering 100 armies from the early classical period to the late medieval. Warhammer Ancient Battles WAB new army list book Warhammer Historical have just released a new version of Armies of Antiquity army list book. ![]() (Using the army lists: p 113) UNIT SIZE & COMPOSITION The minimum size for a regiment or unit is five infantry or cavalry. In addition, the following instructions apply. USING THE ARMY LISTS The army lists in Warhammer Ancient Battles supplements are used in the same way as the Roman and Barbarian lists in Warhammer Ancient Battles itself. This 208 page hardback book contains no fewer than 100 fully revised and updated army lists for the following forces from the ancient and medieval world. Warhammer Armies of Antiquity is a supplement for Warhammer Ancient Battles second edition, the popular rules set for fighting battles on the tabletop with model armies. ![]()
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