The Age of the Rag'narok - Confrontation - Starter Set

Another of my Christmas presents was the starter set for Rackham's Confrontation.  Although I have no inclination to use the rules from Confrontation, the opportunity to get a handful of superbly detailed and pre-painted miniatures based on their fantastic art-style was hard to miss.  Especially since Miniature Market was selling them for dirt cheap.

Very nice box with an amazing art piece by Paul Bonner, definitely a fan of his style.

Here were the accessories in the box; dice (with a dragon emblem for the 6), a tape measure, and the nicely designed rulebook, which I won't be using.  There was also a decent folded battlefield map, double-sided, but sadly I won't use that either.

Here is the included hill and all the miniatures.  They have great detail and the pre-painted jobs, while not original, are better than any of my own painted minis.

Since the designs of the Wolfen are nearly identical to the Wrath of Kings' Goritsi, I had to put some up for comparison.  And yes, the pre-painted Wolfen look better than my own painted Goritsi.  At least I tried.

Wrath of Kings' Goritsi have more dynamic poses, but this is only the Confrontation starter set I'm comparing to.

Considering Miniature Market was selling this entire box for $10 over the Black Friday weekend sale, I think I got an amazing deal.  Well worth the price and the wait until Christmas to open it.

Highly recommended if you want some spearmen or wolf-men to use in some skirmish games.  As you can see, the Wolfen could be used with Wrath of Kings, or in Song of Blades and Heroes, or as werewolves in Kings of War.  The fact that you don't need to paint them is another high selling point.  The hill terrain piece has use in any tabletop game.  Buy it today!

Progress is progressing

Just a couple WIP pictures of the assembled Wrath of Kings miniatures I'll be using to play Song of Blades and Heroes.  Yes, I can't paint to save my life.  At least rate me an 'A' for effort and enthusiasm.

Hadross will be proxies for an aquatic faction in my fantasy realm.  These sea-dwelling forces invade the shores of surface folk for their own nefarious reasons.  

These Goritsi will be part of a decadent society of vampires, nobles and highborn that hide among the mortal human upper-class while feeding on the poor and destitute of the cities.

The Goritsi werewolves will be the Wulfkin.  These humanoid wolves hunt the wilds of mountains and forests.  Some simply defend their territories and nature itself.  Others seek to sow chaos and death to those who would dare enter their realm, tracking them back to their homesteads and villages to slay them all.

Wrath of Kings Assemble!

This is all of the Goritsi and Hadross assembled and ready for painting.  Of course, a fine collection of reading material makes an excellent background and shares shelf space for this mass of plastic.

I have not looked too much into the actual Wrath of Kings ruleset, though the rulebook seems quite nice and the gameplay videos appear to be fairly straight foward.  But of course I'm looking at Song of Blades and Heroes for future campaigns.  There are lots of potential warband ideas for SoBH to be found among all these little figures.

Vampires perhaps?  Notice the un-primed Irene 'Iron Eyes' Goritsi mercenary miniature in the back?  Her weapon sprue came only with a left arm.  I have to wait until the Kickstarter finishes shipping before they accept 'missing pieces' reports from customers.  

Here are some Hadross, or an Atlantean warband.  

And these are some Goritsi werewolves.  

Wrath of Kings offers some very detailed miniatures with lots of character.  Hoping to start painting soon.  The kids have already started marking the territory on which ones they want to paint.  Luckily with 80 miniatures I shouldn't be too concerned on dividing them up.

Wrath of Kings

Today I received my Wrath of Kings Kickstarter.  Funded September of 2013, and now in my possession January of 2015.  Seems like a ridiculously long time to wait, but I've learned to NEVER rely on delivery estimates when it comes to Kickstarters.  But, its here, and looks amazing!  

My order consisted of the King pledge level.  So I got the Hadross Starter Set, the Goritsi Starter Set, hardback rulebook, "Iron Eyes" exclusive mini, and a dice bag.  And I checked, everything is in their respective boxes!  Yay!

Hopefully no weapons, arms, bits, etc. are missing, as its going to be awhile before I am done putting everything together.  There is a slight issue that I am facing.  Nothing too major.  All the bases included have recessed centers, which was designed to allow special sculpted inserts to be placed in them.  Unfortunately, I did not order those inserts, nor did I anticipate needing them.