Fireforge Warrior Monk

 As posted earlier, Fireforge have recently released a box set of Warrior Monks.

Here is the first one I have built, armed with an Naginata.

Fireforge Warrior Monks

 Fireforge have just released a box set of Warrior Monks.

There are two sprue frame types (A and B) and there are three each of them

There are naginatas, muskets (teppo) and bows (Yumi) for all.

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.

Ronin Warband using Fireforge figures

 So as an intermediate milestone while building two Japanese forces for Oathmark, I built what should be a viable force for Ronin (admittedly based on the Bushi Buntai Starter Army - I do not actually possess the rules yet)..

The force comprises:

• Hatamoto Samurai with heavy armour and Katana.
• 2 x Samurai with heavy armour and Katana.
• 2 x Ashigaru with Naginita
• 4 x Ashigaru with Yumi

The points might not quite add up, we shall see.

The four archers (awaiting quivers and katanas). I might add some slung helmets (the bow strings would be fouled by the helmets if worn).

Two Ashigaru with Naginitas.

The three samurai (they need to have the sword scabbards added)..

Ashigaru with the first scenery item - a Japanese Streetlight from Sarissa precision. 

The pieces are quite delicate during assembly and this one needs a bit of tidying up.

Fireforge Samurai and Ashigaru comparison

 Comparison between Fireforge Ashigaru and Samurai with Fireforge Almughavars, Living Dead Peasants, Byzantine Auxilia and North Star Stargrave Scavengers.

Fireforge Samurai Warriors

 Fireforge have recently released box sets of plastic Samurai and Ashigaru. The Samurai Warrior box builds 24 heavily armoured samurai warriors armed with swords, naginatas. spears with straight blades and pollards with cross blades. These boxes come with Round 25mm bases..

There is a Samurai Shooter box, but that does not map on to Oathmark or Lion Rampant very well.

There are four body sprues. They contain enough parts for six warriors, six torsos and seven sets of legs, the additional set of legs is a crouching one usable in the Shooter set.

There are various helmeted heads, but not quite enough to equip all six with generic helmets.

One thing to note, these figures do not have puddle bases.

There are four weapon sprues.

I think the arms on the figure above are a bit low. The scabbard needs to be added.

Three assembled figures.

Fireforge Ashigaru Shooters

The Ashigaru Shooter box builds 24 lightly armoured Ashigaru armed with either a  composite bow or a matchlock arquebus.. They also have a back up sword.

There are four body sprues (identical to the Warrior box) and four weapon sprues.

They will provide the ranged weapons for the Samurai.

Fireforge Ashigaru Warriors

 Fireforge have recently released a range of Japanese Samurai and Ashigaru. At SELWG 2023 I picked up a box each of the Ashigaru Warriors, Ahsigaru Shooters and the Samurai Warrior.

The Ashigaru Warrior box builds 24 lightly armoured Ashigaru armed with either a naginata (basically a sword on a stick) or a nagae-yari (more like a pike). They also have a back up sword.

Each sprue has six torsos (so builds six figures) but is common to the Ashigaru Shooter box (qv) and includes two crouching sets of legs.

There are six heads wearing the traditional jingasa helmet and two bare headed.

The right arm is integral to the naginata and the left arm is numbered to match the right.

The plan is to build two mini armies with slightly different themes for Oathmark, which will also be usable in Lion Rampant.

Five Leagues from the Borderlands Party

As mentioned earlier, I bought Five Leagues from the Borderlands back in October.

So, having rolled up the four heroes and two followers, this is what I started with:

Heroes:

• Noble: Partial Armour; Helmet; Shield; Quality Weapon
• Mystic: Partial Armour; Basic Weapon;
• Townsfolk: Light Armour, Quality Weapon
• Frontier Woman: Quality Weapon; LightArmour

Followers:

• Militia: Light Armour; Self Bow
• Wiley Rogue: Basic Weapon

Having created the party, it was off to the Sprue pile to build the figures.

The majority of the figures were built from Frostgrave sprues, with some Oathmark and FireForge for variety.

Noble

I wanted something different to the the Oathmark Human infantry. I did look at the Frostgrave Knights as a source, but decided that the Fireforge Almughavars would do for a starting out Noble.

The arms are from the Frostgrave Knights sprue, as is the head.

The Mystic is based on a Frostgrave female Wizard. The arms and the head are also from the same sprue.

The Townsfolk figure is from the Frostgrave Soldiers sprue, as is the head

The feather is from the Oathmark Elf Light Infantry.

The Frontier Woman is from the Frostgrave Barbarian II sprue

The Militia Follower is built from the Fireforge Byzantine Auxilia using an unarmoured body and the bow arms. Due to the different head/neck arrangements for these bodies compared to the Frostgrave/Oathmark/Fireforge Almugavar figures, a head from the Auxiliary was used..

A quiver and other items will need added.

The Wiley Rogue is built using the body from the Ghost Archipelago Sailors sprue, the arms an 

Here are photographs of the whole party.