An army of demons for Saga: Age of Magic - part I

 Hi everyone!

My son and I recently played our first Saga: Age of Magic battle, and it was a good start, in spite the fact that it was a terrible defeat for my Dwarves! We enjoyed the rules a lot: the game was dynamic, the rules were easy to remember, I even thought of taking pictures for the battle report! So this article was intended to talk about the battle, but my pictures have revealed horrible - I will have to take new pictures of a reconstitution - I promise I won't cheat and make my Dwarves victorious :)

 Nevertheless, the Saga AOM virus is here, and we've been thinking of new armies, if possible with figures we already have.Looking at my painted figures, I realized that I could create armies for most factions (mostly Great Kingdoms and Horde), but not for the Otherworld.

So I had to search my pile of shame opportunities, and found enough figures to create an army of Demons.

Here you are my list:

Unit	type	option	figures	maker	number
Demonic Lord	lord		Formor	Rackham	1
Conjurer	lieutenant	wings	Succubus	Rackham	1
Demonic Sorcerer	sorcerer		Azaël	Rackham	1
Fire Demons	warrior		Demons of Khorne	GW	8
Air Demons	creature	wings	Screamers of Tzeentch	GW	3
Formless Horror	monstre	béhémoth	Formless Horror	Edge	1
Horned Demons	warrior	heavy weapons	Demons	Northstar	12
Belial Servants	hearthguard		Black Paladins	Rackham	4
total					31

 I was excited at the thought of painting a Rackham Succubus, even if this figure isn't my favourite by far. The idea was to paint a very pale, white flesh.

Here you are the Succubus, together with a Northstar Demon, in a dark landscape:

The Succubus gave me the opportunity to paint a sword of flames - not easy, but I am rather happy with the result.

The dark base with rocks and lava was also something new to me - I intend to base the whole army that way. The Succubus is on an original Rackham base, whereas the Northstar figure was glued to a MDF base. Not too disturbing in my opinion

A closer look at the Northstar figure: I need 12 horned demons, they will all receive a black armor, but the skin will vary - as shown on the box of this set.

 

Work in progress: the red skin of the third demon should slightly differ from the previous one.

 Hope you like them. Let's paint some more, hope to show new figures soon!

  

One year later, with a new project

 

 Hi everyone! 

It's been a year since my last post on this blog, and many things have changed. As announced, we have moved from a house to an apartment, so we had to reorganize a little. My painting table was installed in the dark basement of the house, it's been exchanged for a real, well lightened desk in a comfortable room, with enough space to store thousands of minis. In a word, that's great!

As already answered to some previous comments, there has been only minor damage among the tiny troops, nothing impossible to repair. The figures were mostly well packed, which had been long to achieve (more than 2 months), and the unpacking had been even longer (and not finished yet). But at the end of december, I took a few days of and started to paint again.

I was in a new place, I wanted a new project, largely inspired by some excellent threads on LAF. Since my family and I love board games and RPGs, I decided to create a small world for a Fantasy RPG campaign using 28mm figures. Easier said than done! I need:

- many trees for a large forest

- some houses for small hamlets and villages

- towers, walls, big houses for a town

- some ships for rivers and seas, and a port of course

- every large or little things needed for human activities (carts, furniture, market stalls, goods, crates...)

- some NPCs, animals and creatures to people all those places

- and of course, some figures to represent the main characters

I would like to represent a world in which combat is not a central activity but a desperate option. I guess it will take years before I am fully ready, so let's proceed one step before another. The beginning of the campaign is written, so I focused on the needed elements for that chapter. Some of the figures are painted, and I have a few prepainted buildings that allow me to represent a small hamlet, near a forest.

Let's have a look. We can even start to imagine a story.

Olga (Reaper mini)

This is Olga. She lives in a house in a small hamlet in a poor region a the foot of a high mountain range, with her husband Enguerrand and their daughters Sonia and Claire. Their house is modest, but she works hard to keep it nice and as cosy as possible, and she can sometimes propose a bed for not too suspicious travellers passing by - there aren't many.

 

Enguerrand on his cart (Crooked Dice)

Here you are Enguerrand, with his cart, transporting goods for the benefit of some shopkeeper in a neighbouring village. His mule is old but can still do the job.

 

Sonia (Archon studio)

 Their daughter Sonia is working in a small field. She is sowing seeds for a future harvest. The plot of land will give them enough for subsistance, but not to sell at the market. Her sister Claire doesn't work with her, as she headed off towards the woods a few moments ago, looking for bushes to pick berries from.

 

1985 Citadel blacksmith

 Gill is a blacksmith. His workshop is close to Olga's house.  There are not so many craftsmen skilled in working with iron in this area, so he is an important man in this  small community. He has just stopped working as he is looking at some foreigners arriving in the hamlet.

 

Jolie the scribe, and Dioscoride, the herbalist (Reaper minis)

Well known Aragorn and Legolas figures from LOTR range by GW

The newcomers look like adventurers. Some of them have weapons, but also scrolls, and a book. Maybe they're interested in the forest, and the strange creatures that live in ? 

The two rangers look nervous. They seem to be looking for someone, or something. Jolie, the girl with the book, pushed her glasses up and asked Gill: "Hello, Mr blacksmith! Excuse us to disturb you, but we are looking for a marsh demon that was spotted in this area a few days ago. It is a very dangerous creature, have you seen it ?".

Gill was about to answer when a scream of terror rang out.

"It was Claire!" said Olga in panic. "I told her not to go into the forest alone!"

"I can see her coming back, she's running and, oh! Guys, I think your demon is right after her, and it is not alone!"

Poor Claire, running with her empty basket (Fireforge miniatures)

Picts and Marsh Demon, Conan range by Monolith

The demon is here, escorted by two horrible savages! Where do they come from ?

The two rangers immediately run towards the creatures, one of them shouting: "Jolie, prepare one of your spells at once, We will need it very soon!"

Will the adventurers be strong enough to defeat the demons ? What will become of Claire ? Well, these events are not meant to be part of the RPG campaign, but who knows ? Maybe we will hear of these characters in the future.

Hope you like them, as usual :)