Ithoriel's Strength & Honour DIY

[Ithoriel]

Exactly so, fsn, you go with what you have in these things. Perhaps I need to model a rock quarry?

Antioch, glad it's tendrils are spreading

I've heard about the Medieval version but don't do Facebook - too toxic an environment for my tastes.

I am playing about with ideas for a Sumerian version though. Early days and hampered by my gridded mat from Tiny Wargames having been eaten by the delivery system.   Local joke is that Hermes rebranded as Evri because evri parcel is lost, damaged or stolen maybe it's true of all carriers

Now, how to source 2mm Sumerian Battle carts? I already have stl's that would do as spearmen, archers and "nim", at a pinch.

[Antioch]

I would try posting some of those medieval pictures but haven't bothered to read the how too section yet.  It seems there is a lot of 3d file modifications going on but in the 1 game I played the mechanics look very sound. A lot of the games I have seem appear to be very close & gack dare I use the word...Fun. Of course the older one gets the more important that part seems to be.

In any case good luck with you dissapearing mat & especially with those Sumarian battle carts.

Bob

[pierre the shy]

Great looking terrain Mike, like that bathmat forest.

Ithoriel

You will be happy to note strength and honor has also made to the farther reaches of the empire, even here.

Also trying for romans & gauls (& yes too many projects on the go here). There is a gentleman from a northern (?) club in the UK who has modified the rules & first started doing war of the roses & then early renessaince... you may have seen his own pictures on the rules FB page. In any case the pike blocks look very impressive.

Carry on ..looks like you are doing nice work.

Bob

And even to the farthest reaches of the empire!

Do you have any links to the War of the Roses/Early Rennaissance modifications Bob? My googling did not turn up anything. 

Charles the Bold's Duchy of Burgundy vs the Swiss in 2mm would be interesting......off I go down another rabbit hole 

[Antioch]

Pierre,

Sorry no official or unofficial modifications have been posted... Just pictures of the units (mighty nice pictures too) They are posted on the Strength & Homor FB page by a chap named Paul Clarke in one of the gaming clubs around sheffield. They seem to be doing there own thing & are not supported by Mark the author of the rules.  PM me your email address & I can send over the screen shots I have.  From what I have seen they have or are using for 100 years war, war of the roses & started in on Burgundian wars.

Sorry about all I have on this.     Bob

[pierre the shy]

OK thanks very much for the info Bob, I will PM you a little later.

Cheers Peter

[paulr]

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Charles the Bold's Duchy of Burgundy vs the Swiss in 2mm would be interesting......off I go down another rabbit hole 

I'm not going to be painting them

[Ithoriel]

A few more bits and pieces finally completed.

A fortlet, mansio (Roman Travelodge for officials and VIPs) and a paddock of horses for messengers and others requiring a remount.

A small wood

A small Roman marching camp. Much larger one under construction.

In front, a unit of Siege Engines. Of course, there are no rules for siege engines in Strength and Honour but it was easy to come up with some unit stats I was happy with. With a walled, Romanised town and a Gallic village completed and a walled port underway a siege unit could not be resisted. The Baccus 6mm artillery makes excellent 2mm large engines.

[toxicpixie]

That looks awesome!

[mmcv]

Very cool

[paulr]

    

[FierceKitty]

Has me wondering if Caligula got his diminutive nickname from spending time with 2mm legions (or Legiones, if you are Mr Barker, who can't resist using the Latin word, failing to consider the necessary case, and sticking in an initial capital, possibly under the impression that Latin and German are the same language).

Rant over - project looking fun, Mike. When are we going to see those 1:4800 ships?

[d_Guy]

Lovely work Mike.   

[sunjester]

    

[steve_holmes_11]

I'm really impressed that a new 2mm movement has unleashed such creativity.

Until now, I was fairly unimpressed by the Irregular 2mm strips, and really didn't see much in the Strength and Honour specific bare metal.

There's certainly an element of good impressionist painting going on.
I'm also very impressed with Ithoriel's mini diorama approach with the camps and the elephants.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Good stuff there

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice

[Ithoriel]

Gentlemen, thank for the many nice comments.

Having failed to acquire a mat from Tiny Wargames I went online and found a site that would print fabric for me to my own design. Created a very basic green square, 50mm on a side, with a black dot in the corners, tiled a 1800mm x 1200mm fabric sheet with it and ordered the result, which arrived today. Not a patch, aesthetically, on the Tiny Wargames one but with the bonus of actually existing. Could undoubtedly do better if I ever make a second one.

That portion of my Roman army that is actually painted set on a chunk of the mat in the pic below.



Also completed a second command board so now have one each for Redforce and Blueforce.

[fred.]

I'm liking the look of your mini romans!

And the organisers look good too

[paulr]

    

[Ithoriel]

After a long hiatus, things are finally moving again!

How long that will last ..... time will tell!

However, my dining table no longer resembles a builder's merchant's yard.

Instead it currently looks like a chunk of ancient Gaul that's in dire need of ironing



The army is growing slowly, with two more legions finally finished and two units of light infantry started.

The painted stuff on the march.



Light infantry can be a unit or split into up to four skirmish lines or into one or more skirmish lines and up to three reserve lines. So the two units I'm doing currently are actually 16 component elements to allow for all the options.

Compulsory units for the army I'm doing, Late Republican Warlord, are a general, one veteran and two experienced legions and a unit of skirmishers.