Victrix Medieval Foot Sergeants

 At Colours I picked up the (at the time) new Medieval Foot Sergeants set from Victrix.

Though historical figures, they will probably do double duty as a human faction for Oathmark as well as for Barons War and Lion Rampant.

As has been the case for a while, the set comes in a bag not a box, but does include an assembly guide.

The figures are wearing gambesons, quilted or padded armour in the form of jackets, some of which is worn over mail. This is typical of well equipped foot soldiers not of nobility.

The set builds 32 figures, there are sufficient polearms, hand weapons and (by utilising standard bearer arms) spears to equip all figures with similar weaponry.

For Oathmark, these will be built with hand weapons and spears (polearms/two handed weapons are not available to non Warrior/Knight types).

Polearm and two handed weapon sprue.

Main sprue.

Baron's War Second Edition

 Baron's War is a 28mm scale medieval skirmish wargame. The second edition is available as a starter set.

The starter set comes in a larger box and has the rulebook, enough miniatures (hard plastic kits) for two 500 point retinues, fourteen D10s, ten custom morale dice and a charge D6. There is also a set of barricades (more plastic kits) and a getting started guide.

The D10s, custom D6s and the D6 charge die.

It also has 56 Wargames Atlantic bases.

There are two sprues of 13th Century Knights (total of 12 figures)

Three sprues of 13th Century, total of 18 figures.

Four sprues of Levy (24 figures)

One Long weapons sprue for spears and two handed weapons.

There are two each of the two sprues of barricades

A set of counters.

The getting started guide (which has a suggested build for two different 500 point retinues based on the figures in the box.

The rule book.

Guards of Traitors Toil

 Guards of Traitor's Toll is a new Skirmish level adventure game from Grey for Now.

It is a semi-cooperative game where players control squads of city guards as they patrol the city. They have to apprehend miscreants of various stripes, ensure the citizens do not get to rebellious and deal with sinister plots against the city.

The box contains four sprues of City Folk (making 24 figures) and two sprues of City Guard (making 12 figures). The City Guard is an equal opportunity employer. There are suggested builds for the City Folk, be aware that you will need twenty citizen figures to play the introductory scenario in addition to your guard patrol.

The rule book.

The various cards and special dice, all in a plastic container that will take the counters (see below) when they are removed from the sheet.

Counter sheet

City Folk sprue.

City Guard sprue.

Fireforge Warriors and archers

 Fireforge do a range of Medieval figures. As described previously, they do boxes of Teutonic and Templar Infantry, These contain two identical sprues of foot knights and one Teutonic or Templar command sprue which builds four different figures

These five are built using the components from the box (they are work in progress and will be equipped with shields in due course). All but one head are from a single sprue.

There are a number of different head types, but I thought I would try some of the Anvil Industries Sallet Helmets for a change. To give them a consistent look, I also used the left and right arms from the Oathmark Elf Light Infantry sprues

Unlike the Frostgrave/Oathmark figures, the Fireforge figures have a neck with a flat top and a corresponding flat area on the underside of the head. For these, I removed the neck part of the head and pinned and glued the helmets in place. There is a need for some green stuff on some of the joints.

Now they also need some ranged support, and Fireforge also do a box set of Medieval Archers. These are again work in progress.

These use a combination of bodies from an Archers sprue and a Foot Sergeant sprue. This gives the unit consistency (the arms and heads positions prevent them from looking identical).

Oathmark Human Armies - alternative sources.

 When Frostgrave came out, I bought three boxes of Fireforge Deus Vult on a three for two offer.

I have sprue photographs here.

I recently bought the Medieval Archers and Foot Sergeants boxes (sprue photographs here).

The plan is to use them to build different human factions for Oathmark.

Deus Vult - Templar and Teutonic Infantry

Fireforge Games have a range of Medieval period figures, and sets of rules to play with them. However they are also suitable for use as human forces in Oathmark (plus they are very reasonably priced).

Templar Infantry

The Templar Infantry box contains enough parts to build twenty four figures, 

The box contains one Templar Command sprue (labelled Templar Infantry) and two Heavy Infantry sprues (see later).

The command sprue contains four bodies, fourteen heads, eight capes, one two handed axe, two swords, one banner, one horn and eight shields.

Teutonic Infantry

The Teutonic Infantry box contains parts to build twenty four heavy armoured figures.

The box contains one Teutonic Command Sprue (labelled Teutonic Infantry) and two Heavy Infantry sprues (identical to the ones in the Templar Infantry box).

 The command sprue has four bodies, eight capes, banner, two handed axe, two swords, eight shields, a horn and twelve heads (with some extremely exciting helms)..

Heavy Infantry sprue

Both sets include two Heavy Infantry sprues.

Each sprue contains ten bodies, ten heads, six spears, six hand weapons, eight shields and six crossbows.

Deus Vult - Foot Sergeants and Medieval Archers

Fireforge Games have a range of Medieval period figures, and sets of rules to play with them. However they are also suitable for use as human forces in Oathmark (plus they are very reasonably priced).

Foot Sergeants

The Fire Forge Foot Sergeants can build 48 figures

The boxed set contains six hard plastic frames, each has eight different bodies. There is no flash, and only occasional mould lines (the heads do seem to have a bit, see photograph below). There are also sufficient 20x20mm plastic bases.

 There are six spear arms, six hand weapon arms, eight shield arms and shields (there are four different shield types). There are also four crossbows. There are ten heads, with different headgear.

This is the first Spearman assembled, I do need to remove that mould line on the helmet.

I am using 25mm round bases so I can use them in Frostgrave, I have some Renedra sabot bases to use figures based this way with Oathmark.

Medieval Archers

The Fireforge Medieval Archers box set builds 24 figures.

 The boxed set contains three hard plastic frames, each has eight different bodies. There is no flash, and only occasional mould lines.

 Each sprue has eight bodies, 13 heads, eight pairs of bow arms and four swords. There are also sufficient 20x20mm plastic bases.

An assembled archer.

The figures and sprues

One thing that is noticeable is that the archers set has four crossbow quarrel packs. This is because the Foot Sergeant and Archers sprues have common bodies.

Foot Sergeant

Archers

This is an advantage, as it adds more common body types and you can mix and match the bodies to match your armies style. Each sprue has four different body styles: two kinds of ribbed/padded armour, one cloth over mail and one with diamond shaped overlapping pieces (see the spearman above).

Size comparison

The figure appear of a reasonable match with Oathmark and the Fireforge Forgotten World Northmen.

Fireforge Foot Sergeant, Fireforge Northman, Fireforge Medieval Archer and Oathmark Human Infantry.

I do not have any of the Perry figures to hand to compare their size to these figures.

Now I am just waiting for North Star to deliver the Renedra bases so I can start assembling my starter army.