Pig Tickling

 In William's travels, he had seen some peculiar things, but the "sport" of Pig Tickling was one of the oddest.

Steam powered mechanical pig.

Somewhere I have the two stokers that keep the pig running.

Umpire on Unicycle

I have the rules somewhere as well.

Oathmark Human Light Infantry

 In March 2024 North Star released the Human Light Infantry for Oathmark.

The box contains four sprues, each of which can build five of any combination of Human Rangers and Human Militia (Light Infantry)

There are five sets of melee weapon and shield and five sets of bows.

The shields are a slightly more tatty version of the shield found in the Human Infantry set.

There are components to build command and standard figures. There some additional weapons and packs.

There are five hooded and five heads in pudding basin helmets, plus five other heads.

All heads are compatible with other Oathmark and Frostgrave human heads and bodies.

Five rangers (awaiting fitting of quivers).

Oathmark Mini-Army

The Human Militia are a lot cheaper than the rank and file Human Soldiers (they are also not as good), so you can a lot more figures. The Rangers, however, are more expensive than the rank and file archers.

For an Oathmark mini-army I have chosen to represent a minor lord's force without either a City Guard (Spears) or his retinue. A trusted captain leads the force.

• Human Captain
• Six ranks of Human Militia
• Two ranks of Human Rangers

Alien Warriors Work In Progress

 Scale comparison between William Killian (Crooked Dice) and an Alien Warrior.

Frostgrave Cultists II

 So after four odd years, Frostgrave Cults go Co-Ed!

Like the male Frostgrave Cultists, the female Cultists II box contains four identical sprues, each containing five cultist bodies, an assortment of melee and ranged weapons plus components for making female zombies.

The great thing about them is their compatibility with the other Frostgrave and Stargrave figures.

This cultist for Stargrave or Five Parsecs From Home uses one of the cultist bodies with the machine gun arms and a hooded and masked head from the Stargrave Scavengers II set

I now have to build some "out of the box" to reinforce my Necromancer's army.

Aliens: Alien Warriors 2

 So, having bought the Five Parsecs From Home Compendium (which contains the stand-alone game Bug Hunt) I had looked around for some suitable Alien opposition.

Having looked at what was available (and having the original Aliens: Alien Warriors box to hand) I thought that the classic Xenomorph would be an option.

Of course, that was only twelve figures, and experience of Space Hulk made me think I would need some more.

The current box contains two of the Alien Warrior sprues and the new Alien 2 sprue.

These are slightly different (the slightness reinforced by the presence of an identifying label on the base) to the general Alien Warrior.

The figures comprise two body halves, each figure has a choice of two different heads.

The arms and tails are interchangeable within the sprue and with the original figures.

Aliens: Alien Warriors

 So, a while back I bought three boxes for the Gale Force 9 Aliens game from Wayland's Forge in Birmingham.

One of the boxes was the Alien Warriors box.

There are three identical sprue, each builds four figures. There are two heads each per body and the arms and tails are interchangeable.

There is actually an assembly instruction sheet, which is a surprise in this day and age.

Unfortunately the figures feet are included on the base, which makes changing the base type rather difficult.

I will have to rebase the Ooh Rah figures to match.

Great Escape Games: Dead Man's Hand Street Scatter

 As part of the Dead Man's Hand Redux set there is a plastic Street Scatter set.