I got carried away

So, a while ago I decided I needed vikings. I bought a load of metal vikings at Colours and only painted a couple of them. I think it was because I had picked up the rulebook Ragnarok and it looked fun. Well, I finally finished painting the rest of them:

They are all painted in the same restricted pallette as my Frostgrave barbarians, which although not historically accurate, do go well with the vikings.

The standard bearers were the last to be done as I really wasn't keen on handpainting some flags and I hadn't found a set of pre-printed I liked. In the end I found a pdf online with some examples that were just a bit too large. A simple click of a mouse to print the pdf in landscape instead of portrait, shrunk all the images by half. A couple of layers of pva gave the paper some structure so it stayed in the wavy flag form and then superglue finished the job sticking the two halves together.

I couldn't resist getting everything out on a table with a bit of terrain just for the photo opportunity. This is all a mix of various manufacturers but keeping the pallette simple across them all I think has tied them together. I can use the vikings for some historical skirmishing and then if I want to do something a bit more fantastical (Dragon Rampant to the max anyone?) I can put this all together.

Ragnarok!

No, not the Marvel Movie, the original end of days. I'll be there, will you?

So, I thought my next post would be the great pre Salute prep post, but this came up today and I had to get my thoughts out there on the subject.
So, as you know I love Opsrey Wargames books, every now and then I am on my phone browsing the web and I exclaim, "Osprey have bloody done it again!"
"They have made another book you want, haven't they, my darling?" my encouraging and understanding wife asks.
Of course they have.

Cover presumably copyright Osprey publishing.

A dramatic cover, I hear you say. Well, that is the idea. Apparently, from the minimal infomation gleaned from the Osprey pages and the Facebook group. (I declared to my wife, I have been accepted to Ragnarok! What are you doing at the end of times?!) This game is meant to be played with an accompanying musical track of Heavy Metal tunes.

Remember this? Now can someone make a wargame out of this!

Written by Tim Korklewski, the game is a skirmish system with minimum 7 a side where you don't just hit each other with swords and axes. Apparantly you will be pushing and throwing your opponents around the battlefield using a mechanic called the Godspark. It's campaign driven, I am guessing your campaign ends when the great world tree finally topples and the realms come to an end. It's a very definite strong beat to a skirmish campaign system, something that normally just ends up being, whose gang ends up being the richest?

You can browse the first couple of pages of the book on the Osprey website here.

Now I definitely have some hardcore metalheads for wargaming friends, my normal Illustrious Wargaming Opponent isn't one of them, but I reckon he would still give it a go as long as we kept the volume down (although can one actually really listen to AC\DC or Iron Maiden with the volume down?). As you know I already have started some Footsore Vikings, so next month at Salute I think I shall be bringing out my inner Kappi to fight past the backpacks and trolley suitcases (when did they become a good idea?) and pick up some more suitable dramatic axe wielding warriors.