Art De La Guerre

[highlandbevan]

I'm writing a series of short pieces on my blog of how to get started with ADLG cheaply using 28mm plastic figures. These articles are aimed at beginners to wargaming/ADLG who want to know how to pick up a cheap army without working through the rules and army lists, and to give people an idea how cheaply you can start gaming.

Here's my article on Barbarians:

"If plastic figures are made for one thing, it is getting the mass of barbarian horde armies at an affordable price. If you’re not too fussy (and I’m not), a single horde can represent Germans, Gauls, Britons, Galatians, and at a stretch Celtiberians and Goths.

The main contenders in this area are Warlord Games. £22 gets you a box of 40 warriors. At a reasonably spaced 4 to a double base, 3 boxes at £66 (There is a 3 box Germanic Warrior discount at £60) gets you the maximum 24 bases. With a judicious choice of figures, the leftovers can become skirmishers with javelins and (with a little sculpting) slings.

In practice you will probably want some cavalry as well. There are no boxes of purely plastic cavalry at the moment, but you can pick up some metals for about £20. Chariots also look fantastic but come in far more expensive.

Once again, while you’re waiting for an army to fight, your 200 point army can become 2 x 100 point armies for some tribal warfare, of which there was plenty."

Here are my notes so far:
https://thirtyyears15mm.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/60-classical-greek/
https://thirtyyears15mm.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/90-barbarian/
https://thirtyyears15mm.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/134-andalusian-arab/

If anyone has pictures of these models they would like to share I'd be happy to put some up on my blog.

[madaxeman]

Nice.

The new Gripping Beast plastic dark age cavalry “could” be earlier ones, with a bit of kit bashing. Or just a bit of squinting.
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