slinky wrote:
Very nice, Bree is filling up with characterful models
Thank you!
Imrahil the Fair wrote:
I really like your Bree army, it is coming together nicely.
I also like how you give the impression of a non-professional army by mixing different "classes" of soldiers together.
The models are Perry Miniatures you said, are they plastic or metal?
And do you plan to play with them? If yes, which rules are you going to use?
Thanks very much. They are mainly metal, which I somehow find easier to convert than plastics; it's also hard to find good civilians to use in conversions, but the HYW has some very nice metal sets. I haven't actually played a game in at least seven years, so I think the chances are slim that they will take the field. But I have tried to standardize the different "classes" and their arms/armor so that they could be used in a game. Thus, peasants all have great weapons (farm tools), militia all have spears and shields, watchers have halberds, etc. Same goes for the ruffians.
Wan Shi Tong wrote:
Really cool idea. I am glad you are coming back to it. Your heraldry is very well done. This reminds me of third age total war's take on breeland. Have you taken any inspiration from there?
No, I haven't. Never got that game. Is it worth playing?
Here are some of the brigands and villains who have causing trouble for Breeland.
Some half-orcs/goblin-men, the same breed as the leering, sallow-faced men the hobbits enounter in Bree in the Fellowship.
These fellows are camped in the countryside somewhere, preying on travelers, merchants, unwary farmers, and the like. I tried to get the complexion somewhat sickly and unpleasant. You may notice the one on the left has been "updated" from an earlier incarnation on the first page of this plog.
Here are two cutpurses (or cut-throats!) who haunt the darker alleys of Breetown, relieving passersby of their silver.
"Your money or your life!"
The bases for these conversions are Perry HYW and WOTR plastics. The half-orc heads are from the orc hunter set, trimmed down and altered to look more human. The colors don't come across so well, but I am trying to use black and murrey as common colors among the villains.
C&C welcome.