Frostgrave Scatter Terrain

 Frostgrave needs lots of scatter terrain otherwise magic and ranged weapons do not lead to a fun experience.

A Goblin emerges from behind the barrels.

They are Debris of War Large Barrels.

They have been painted as if they have been under the ice that buried Feldstadt. The wood is dark and grey and the metalwork is rusted.

Various shades of grey dry brushed over a Citadel Chaos Black spray undercoat.

The iron hoops were painted with a mix of Army Painter Black, Army Painter Chaotic Red and Vallejo Black Grey.

Citadel Ryza Rust was then applied.

The whole thing was then washed with Citadel Nuln Oil.

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

Gripping Beast Dark Age Welsh

 Gripping Beast released a box set of multi-part, multi-pose Dark Age Welsh in 2021.

The box contains five identical sprues, each of which builds five light infantry armed with spears with optional axes, sword or two handed spear.

Most of the heads are bare (mainly pudding basin haircuts), though there is one wearing a helmet.

They match nicely with the Oathmark Human Infantry. 

The bodies have built in necks with a matching socket in the base of the head, so are not compatible with Frostgrave, Oathmark, Fireforge or Anvil heads without surgery.

At least one of them is going to end up converted for Stargrave/Five Parsecs.

Oathmark Human mini-army

 After the release (okay a bit after the release) of Oathmark, I pointed up some minimum point armies.

I had completed (assembled) an Elf Ranger army not long after that, okay it is four ranks of archers and some stragglers. I still have not finished painting them.

So now the first Human mini-army is assembled.

It comprises three ranks of Human Infantry, four ranks of Human Archers and two ranks of Human Spearmen.

Only one figure is currently painted, and that was painted towards the end of 2019.

Finishing painting may take some time.

As a picture is apparently worth a thousand words, here is a graph of the production speed of my Oathmark Human army.

Fireforge Northmen Cavalry

 Though I bought a box of the Fireforge Northmen Cavalry way back in November, I had not got round to doing any more than photographing the sprues (not even posting them here).

The box contains enough parts for six cavalry.

There is one of the common Northmen Command sprues.

There are two sets of bases (ignore the ones on the right).  The elliptical ones ended up under the Chronohounds.

Two sprues of multi-part horses with partial barding.

Two sprues of riders.

There are three arms with swords, three with spears and one banner. I am not convinced the swords would fit in the scabbards.

The horses are in four parts (head, left body, right body, tail). I am not sure how much you can mix and match them.

The horses (especially this one) have very small points of contact, and only one hoof anywhere near the ground. I pinned that one and will add some miliput to hold the other two hooves in place. It has fallen off twice so far.

Comparison with an Oathmark Human Infantry.

Comparison with the recently released Oathmark Human Cavalry.

Oathmark Human Cavalry - first build

 So having shown the sprues for the new Oathmark Human Cavalry, here is the first one I have built.

The horse is in two parts, one half has the head, the joint being hidden by the reins. It is a particularly dynamic horse, which does not quite match up to the rather static rider. I may have to swap riders around until I am happy with the combination.

The cavalryman's body is in five parts: head; two arms; torso;legs.

Are they perhaps related?

Oathmark Human Cavalry and Human Infantry. The heads do appear identical, which is a bit of a disappointment, different faces would have been nice.

And a comparison with the Fireforge Northmen Cavalry.