Showing posts with label fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fantasy. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Some statts for my Lotr armies and rangers

Ok, I've looked at the HOTT2 rules and like alot of what I've read.
But I'm just gonna steal stuff from it and use others stuff to.
So I'm kinda making stats for diffrent units.

Here are what I've got so far.
Orc Archers, this includes both uruks and regular orcs, be them archers or crossboworcs.
Size 36.
Ranged : 2
Mele: 1
Defence: 1
Moral: 1

Orc mele, this is regular mordor/moria/isengard orcs.
Size: 48
Mele 2,
Defence 1
Moral 1

Uruk hai, this can be isengard or mordor uruks.
Size 48
Mele 3
Defence 2
Moral 2.

Wild men and evil men have the same stats as uruks

Gondor/Rohan Archers
Size 24
Ranged 3.
Mele 2
Defence 2.
Moral 2.

Berserker Uruk these are small elite units, they got like no defence, so they will mostly likely be wiped out when used, but will do damige to what ever they attack, they got good moral so they'll probebly won't retreat.
Size 12
Mele 5
Defence 1
Moral 3.

Gondor/Rohan/Elven mele This is good units, that only realy distatvantage is that they will probebly have 3 to 1 against them in soldiers.
Size 24
Mele 3
Defence 3
Moral 3

Elven Archers
Size 24
Ranged 4
Mele 2
Defence 2
Moral 3

Rangers, these are 100% ranged and 100% mele, that is they do both equaly good, they also got moral bonous that inspire any unit with 6".
Size 24
Ranged 4
Mele 4
Defence 3
Moral 4.
Moral bonus to all friendly units with in 6"

Troll. Now I'm useing 1:20 scale so 3 trolls is realy 60 trolls, thats alot, they can do alot of damige, realy you do not want them to get into mele with you unless they have been realy weakend by ranged attacks
Size 3
Mele 7
Defence 5
Moral 3
Thats realy the infantry types.

Not sure about the cav yet.

And now the pictures, I wasn't sure about these at first, why are they in skirts?
But I love the way they ended up, I game them all sabdued colors, diffrent dark green, browns and leathers.
Now the lotr boxes come with both archers and mele in the same box, thats kinda anoying, when it come to orcs ect. but with rangers it worked out great, since they are both mele and ranged unit.

At first I toyed with the idea of doing them more uniqe, but it would just be to much work, I did give a couple of them diffrent leather belts.

The vest or what it is is done in OD, the skirt is in beige brown, the cloak is in russian green.







Now the ugly, finished a uruk base and started on the other.


I like how the armor turned out.



Thats it for now.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Better pictures

The sun is up again, so here are som better pictures to show the detials.









Monday, November 15, 2010

A public apology

When I ran for congress, I made some promises, to lower taxes, get 5 times a day muslim prayer into the public schools and never ever ever have non historic figures on this blog. I have now failed all three.
Like all people that do imoral things I made exuses and found reasons to sin.
1. The figures were designed by the Perry's
2. no ludicrsly over sized weapons, ok the trolls have big weapons but they are proprtional to the troll which are quite big.
3. Lotr is high class fantasy, not like it's d&d(ehh, right)
4. I like lotr movies and part of the books are very good.
5. it's not warhammer even if it's made by the same evil people.
6. IT'S NOT WARHAMMER
7. slighly less overpriced then warhammer.
I had others to but in the end, I'm evil imoral and quite possobly liable to be indited on warcrimes for this.
Nothing can excuse this, I'm a puppet in the evil corporation known as games workshop.
Now I have commited Seppuku as the only honereble way out, but to my suprise it takes quite some time to die from disbowlment so I have time to write this blog before I go hang my self in my own Intestines.
Now on to the pictures
It's dark outside so no natural light.

Doing these uruk hai were quite diffrent then what I normaly do, for one, no flesh color on the flesh, from the movies, the uruks were green black, and this turned out to be impossible to paint, it just looked either like warhammer orcs with the puke green flesh or just black. I tried to do them with dark gray highlights and it just didn't look good. so I did what the painting guide showed, a kind of dark beige brown. the leather is then darker brown still, with some kaki style cloth. Having almost no experience with armor it was quite a challange, again the armor is almost totaly black in the movies, so most of the armor has gun metal, it's a blackish metal, then highlights with chainmail and finnaly armor ink to blend the to metals togeather, agian quite diffrent from my normal work as I don't use inks normaly.
I'll post some more daylight pictures tomorrow.







Because of the evil Games workshop, the figures come with those silly single base things, so I had to cut of the base slit and use green stuff to base them, an anoience to be sure and just another reason they are evil.
Now is fear of beeing racist orcs are quite useless they only work when you got like a billion of them, or atleast 5 orcs for every human/elf/dwarf.
This means each unit will be BIG, 36 for archers and 48 for infantry,
While the humans(mostly rohan) will be only 24 pr. unit and much fewer.
As always I aim big, 800 orcs and a few trolls, against only 250 rohan and rangers.
I will pretend on a 1:30 scale battle, so 800 orcs are realy like 25 000. The rohan will have 1600 (54 figures) of cavalry, and about 4000 infantry, kinda going away from the ide of all cavalry rohan army.
I'm looking for rules, I know I don't want anything to do with the warhammer/GWS rules.
So some generic fantasy rules or sevral that I will steal from.
I want the game to be kinda like chess, no so much flanking but more about right units againt right units at the right time. With some elite units into the mix.