The corner of the painter - Mongol and Longobard army for SAGA 2.0

One of the aspects that makes a wargame club a great initiative is that, in an association of this kind, you can find many people with great skills that allow you to do things that individually would not be possible. So in our association you can meet wargame authors, people who build magnificent scenarios or simple players with which to spend a few hours in joy.

But in all wargame associations it is important to find good painters … Aurelian Leclerc and Ivano are two of them … and two of the best.

In the last months Aurelian prepared a Mongol army for SAGA 2.0, and below there are some pictures of his miniatures

Every army has to have his warlord and the bodyguards and Aurelian painted them too

He completed the army with some archers on camels

To complete a picture of the group and …

… the army on the field

In the same period in which Aurelian painted his Mongols, Ivano prepared a Longobard army. Below some pictures of his cavalry in action and …

… the army equipped and ready for the battle

SAGA 2.0 – Battles August-September 2018

My club mates are continuing to fight each other using SAGA 2.0 to test the new Army lists. In the last months they played several battles and below there are some photos of their efforts.

Goths against Byzantines

Byzantine troops are painted by Riccardo, on contrary the Goths below are prepared by Ivano

Late Roman against Vikings

A detail of Giancarlo’s warriors …

… and another details of Riccardo Late Roman Empire soldiers

Another battle between Late Roman and Vikings and …

… another detail of Giancarlo’s Vikings

Riccardo adapted some warriors for pagan reigns

... so Aurelian decided to prepare a Teutonic force

Other two details … Ivano’s Goth

and a modified warlord with his warriors

Black Powder – The clash of Eagles test July/August 2018

In the last two months Ezio, Riccardo, Giancarlo and Alberto tested the new rules included into Black Powder supplement “the clash of Eagles”. They played several battles and they took many photos so I decided to write a kind of report for one of their clashes.

The match is a generic scenario between Russian and French troops (810 points each); the miniatures are 15mm on a table 180x120 cm.

Riccardo commands the French hordes while Ezio the Russians.

The initial deployment

Some details of French  ...

…and the Russian troops

Russian player decides to take the control of the strategic wood in the center of the table as first move

French commander replies moving forward his troops

Ezio moves the Russian cavalry and artillery on his right wing trying to encircling the enemies

Riccardo advances with his infantry till the wood and launches his cavalry against the Cossacks

On the left of the French formation the Russian cannons try to block the Napoleon’s troops advance but they are forced to retreat

On the center the struggle becomes ferocious and the Russian player send reinforcement

On the French right, the cuirassiers breaks the Cossack’s resistance while the infantries continue to push

All players continue their fires but …

… at the end French take the control of the wood

The battle continues in the center and …      
 

… even if Russian cavalry forces a French battalion to order the square formation … the Russians are forced to retreat

As I told at the beginning of the post my mates played also other battles during the summer … below a little selection of some photos taken. This time the armies were 1,000 points each