Re: Salinarg and the Household of Death

From: Richard Hayes <richard_hayes29_at_ZtDHeU529kOzrPuwAEGqB1og9a_pgJczhySVPPVT4oliBbnURRbt-cpufcLs>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2011 19:00:46 +0100 (BST)

A couple of suggestions are below, in purple, though personally I still use a mid-1990s art direction of Dark Ages people (Saxons, Vikings or Gauls for Orlanthi), rather than the more canonical Bronze Age look of today. (I also concede that it is in the text of RQ II, dating back to the late 1970s, that Glorantha is a Bronze Age world -- but MGDV).
 

If you want the Bronze Age look, maybe some of Wargames Foundry's Trojan warriors with swords would cover the adult male Humakti, combined with civilian children from an older setting, with additional swords?
 

Sorry if it sounds like a Wargames Foundry ad at times -- it is just that their shop is only an hour from me and I know it a bit too well ...
 

Oh and don't forget the swords!
 

Richard Hayes
 

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Subject: Re: Salinarg and the Household of Death

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> 2 Harsaltar, son of Salinarg... 7 year old boy ? the size of a seven year old or did he grow rapidly ...lots of geases, so no armour?

That is going to be a hard task. Think of all the wizard kids, and give them a deadly aura that would make Clint Eastwood's "Maky my day, punk" feel all pink and rosy.

There are some suitable civilian children in some of Wargames Foundry's historical ranges: 

http://wargamesfoundry.com/historical_ranges/single_packs/ancients/viking/viking_civilians_vik038/?sector_id=8
http://wargamesfoundry.com/historical_ranges/single_packs/ancients/saxon/saxon_civilians_sax008/?sector_id=8
http://wargamesfoundry.com/historical_ranges/single_packs/ancients/gauls/gallic_civilians_gl014/?sector_id=6

 

But you also have to get a lot of civilian adults this way as well, which might be a bit extravagant
 

Alternatively get some 28mm figures for your adults and use some lightly armoured 15mm or 20mm figures from a similar historical milieu for your children. Either way, they will still need their swords! 
 > 3 Household..lots of heavily geased Humakti, so missing bits of armour & swords, swords and more swords...?

Maybe try some of the Germanic warriors that Foundry are selling off at a discount at the moment: http://wargamesfoundry.com/clearance/single_packs/
 

And/or start with some Saxons or Vikings  and swap some limbs from a more lightly-armoured figure in a similar style and pose

And more scary little kids. I think his sisters were involved here, too. See above

> 4 Men and women in the unit, or just men?

All ages, I suppose, and all genders. Probably a hefty dose of Deadeye powers, as described in Sartar Companion. Shieldthanes rushing in to deflect strikes aimed at those killing children.

Like the shieldthane idea.
 

Foundry is relatively weak on warrior women (as befits their wargaming heritage), but there are some honourable exceptions in the Viking range (including the odd Maran Gor cultist, to save for another day): 

http://wargamesfoundry.com/historical_ranges/single_packs/ancients/viking/valkyries_war_maidens_of_odin_vik055/?sector_id=6
http://wargamesfoundry.com/historical_ranges/single_packs/ancients/viking/valkyries_daughters_of_freya_vik054/?sector_id=6
http://wargamesfoundry.com/historical_ranges/single_packs/ancients/viking/viking_shield_maidens_vik037/?sector_id=6

I know at least some of these recur on the Glotranthan Army website.
 

Alternatively look for suitable 'female adventurer' figures from a fantasy range

> 5 and finally, was it all human, or did those great Huey-makt followers take part too?

There is no reason not to have a duck or two if you really want it, but it will be really hard to make the cute deadly kiddies threatening. Tossing in a couple of death-drakes won't make that easier.

Roderick posted some interesting stuff on Duck miniatures not so very long ago, but you will probably need to give them bigger swords (though not stupidly so), to make them look more like Death-Drakes and less like skirmishers armed with something one up from a dagger

Providing a couple of victims to these children might work - the boy standing on a decapacitated body while attacking a new opponent, or something like that, or (can that be modeled?) a body falling back while its soul is ripped off by magic.

I like it! Maybe get a spirit/ghost figure and plaster it onto the exit wound of a fallen casualty? Or take a very similar figure and paint them so that they look like a suitably spectral copy of the casualty?

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