Battle Report: Fury of the Northman - Battle at the Pass

 

After getting those Anglo-Saxons painted, I was eager to get them out on the table!  Therefore, I managed to organize a quick battle versus my Viking. 

Earl Eirkir received news of a Viking warband moving towards his territory after landing on the coast.  He quickly summoned his Fyrd and Thegns together to face off this threat!  He had heard that these marauders had come across the see from Hibernia and he intended on sending them back the way they had come!  

Erik Greybeard and his men had left Hibernia after a disappointing raiding season.  In fact, many of his men left and went back to their homelands.  However, those that remained were battle hardened.  They also had stout shields, chain mail, and many were equipped with the feared Dane Axe!

Forces:

We are actually using the sample forces right out of the Fury of the Northman main rulebook.  That gives an elite, compact Viking warband versus a numerically superior Anglo-saxon force. 

Anglo-Saxons

Vikings

Mission: 

This is going to be a straight-up Raven Feast, which is a standard battle.  No special objectives. but we do have a Bad Water complication.  Let's see if we remember it on the day of the battle.  

Set-up: 

Again, we used the rules right from the book in order to set-up the table.  This gave us a large single- and double-layer hill on the Viking side of the board to book end their forces.  That naturally made a pass that the Vikings would need to march through to get to Earl Eirkir's lands.  The other side was mostly open, with a forest on the Anglo-Saxon left.  

View from the Viking Deployment zone, through the pass

As usual, I will not be detailing the game turn-by-turn.  Instead, I will have a high-level overview and break it down into three phases, the Maneuver phase, the Battle Phase, and the End Phase.  I find it is much easier to focus on the fun of the game and still get the general idea across to the reader this way.  

Maneuver Phase: 

There is no fancy maneuvers as the two sides close.  

The Anglo-saxons use their superior numbers to maintain the initiative.  The left flank of skirmishers and archers forms a missile line curving towards the hills.  It is anchored by the Earl in the middle in shieldwall, and two Fryd units also in Shieldwall.  The last Fyrd unit stays in open formation on the far right edge, ready to try to flank.  

Anglo-Saxon left flank

The Vikings block up the pass.  Their right flank is their Nobles in shieldwall.  They anchor the warriors in Shieldwall.  The last element blocking the pass is the Boar's Head formation.  The Viking skirmishers are trying to sneak through the forest on the far side of the left flank hill.  

Anglo-saxons on the left, and Vikings on the right  side of the image

Battle Phase: 

The battle proper starts with a hail of arrows clattering loudly off the Viking's Nobles' shields.  Seeing this, the warriors in the Boar's Head seize the initiative from the Anglo-saxons and charge forward with a roar!  They connect with a Fryd unit, that is reinforced by their nearby allies.  There is a ferocious clash, where the Fyrd manages to stand and even repel the Boar's Head, but begins to waiver in the process.  

The Viking command breaks formation and charges the Archers, who are supported by a unit of skirmishers.  They trade blows but are less than successful at routing their lightly armed foes!  

In return, the Anglo-saxon Earl manages to lead a classic shieldwall attack into the Viking warriors, who are also in a shieldwall.  With much pushing, shoving and stabbing the Vikings fall back a few steps.  

Fyrd units by the woods engage the lurking Viking skirmishers in a close quarter fight at the edge of the woods.  It is tough terrain to fight in.  

In the center, despite being outnumbered two-to-one, the Boar's Head and Dane Axe armed Vikings manage to smash through the wavering Fyrd.  The farmers turn and flee, with the savage Vikings in hot pursuit! 

Anglo-saxon Fyrd breaks and runs from the Viking Boar's Head

The Earl continues to wear down the Viking warriors, but it is too little too late as the Viking Nobles smash the archers and skirmishers supporting them apart on their right flank.  The Anglo-saxons flee, with the Nobles in hot pursuit.  The Earl lost half of his army that round.  

The Viking Nobles cease their pursuit at the urging of their Jarl and begin battling up the hillside.  They are harried by Anglo-saxon skirmishers the whole way.  However, they give better than they get and cause the Anglo-saxons to tremble in fear.

End Phase  

The Viking Nobles manage to smash the Anglo-saxon skirmishers off the hill, but in the process, tragedy strikes!  Erik Greybeard is killed in the fighting for the hilltop!  An Anglo-saxon javelin through the eye as he bellowed commands!  

The fighting between the Viking skirmishers in the woods and the Fyrd unit is indecisive.  

Earl Eirkir manages to keep up the attack on the Viking warriors, but when they are attacked in the rear by Vikings with Dane Axes, it is all over.  His unit wavers and then flees for its life!  With that, the Anglo-saxon army breaks!  

Final Thoughts

No need to even count up the points.  My Anglo-saxon army was completely routed, despite some promising points early on.  The Viking units were all battered but none were broken. I have a small morale victory by killing the Viking warlord in battle, and that is about it! 

When the enemy army is injured across the board, but no one is broken that tells me I did a poor job of target prioritization and focusing my units on a single killing blow.  Instead, they got scattered and their hitting power diluted.  They managed to absorb the Viking assault but lost during the subsequent melees.  

Three mistakes I should have done differently.  First, I should have ignored the Viking skirmishers in the woods and used that extra Fyrd unit against the Boar's Head unit to break it early.  It survived the initial attack and was able to turn the tide in the melee.  Second, I should have let the archers go with no support and used the skirmishing units as flank charges the following turn.  Instead, the support did nothing and the second could not get in position fast enough to matter. Third I used my re-roll advantage from Ferocity Points poorly, and I should have used them to finish enemy units off. 

Oh well.  I learned a lot.  There was a reason the Vikings were such a fearsome foe.  

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On The Painting Desk- First Big Painting Project for 2025 is Done and Dusted

 

The first big painting project of the year, was an Anglo-Saxon army for my Fury of the Northman rules.  That was going to be a relatively large force with 1 Thegns unit, 3 Fyrd units, 2 Skirmisher units, and 3 missile units.  I had all ready batch painted the Shieldwall and now it was time for the support units.  

For the Skirmishers and Archers, I was using leftover Victrix kits of Early and Late Saxons.  For the Missile Troops I was using the Dark Age Archers kits.  The great thing about the archers was that I could use them with a variety of Dark Age armies if I wanted, as they were relatively generic.  

When we last left-off on this project, I was batch-painting about 50 models at this phase.  I had managed to paint them up with my standard techniques to about half-done before we left off.  It had taken about three weekends to get that far, thanks to a bad case of Influenza A.  Yuck.  

They all had on pants and basic clothing, but there was still a lot of weapons, hats, helmets, hair, and gear to go.  Therefore, it was time to get started again and finish them off.  Thankfully, my wife is in school so I have most of Saturday open to paint while she does homework.  That has given me plenty of time to paint.  

I went to work on the rest of the models using my standard batch painting techniques.  I worked on belts and pouches next.  Here I used a variety of Armypainter browns such as Skeleton Bone, Desert Yellow, Monster Brown, Leather Brown, and Fur Brown.  I had to make sure that none of the gear matched anyone's tunics either.  Each model tended to get two of the brown colors to create some different colors on the same model.  

I also painted the weapons up.  Here I went with a very different look.  I opted to do all the Bows with Dessert Yellow to give them a yellowish look.  On spear and weapon hafts, I had primarily used Oak Brown and Skeleton Bone, which I did again.  The weapon tips were all Bronze or Gun Metal.  The feathers on the arrows I decided to use Mummy's Robes for a goose-feather look. 

That just left heads and headgear to be finished off.  So close to getting all the base-coating done!  For hair, I used Fur Brown, Monster Brown, Dark Stone, and Uniform Grey.  I avoided any Orange hair and I think only 1 guy had Blonde hair in this group.  A bit unusual for me, but Blonde's and Red-heads did not seem that common for Anglo-Saxons.  It will help the Irish and Vikings pop out a bit. 

For the hats and helmets, I allowed myself to go a bit crazy on the color-schemes.  The majority of these guys had been in browns, greens, and more nature themed colors.  This time, I skipped that and leaned into the brighter colors for headgear, Deep Blue, Pure Red, Daemonic Yellow, Lava Orange, Greenskin, and even Voidshield Blue.  Helmets were Gun Metal and Bronze for the most part.  That gave some of these guys a bit of a "POP" to them too.  

Not a bad looking crew.  That left all the base-coating done after 4 weekends of work.  I was onto Washing and Base-coating.  I had used Strong Tone on the shieldwall due to all their chain mail, and it turned out good, but a bit dark.  I wanted these guys to fit in with those, but I decided to do a test on the Priests with a Lighter tone to see how they fit in first.  I thought that the Strong Tone might be too much for these minis and make them super-dark.  

After looking at the test models, I was happy with the Soft Tone results. It used a black ink base, similar to the Strong Tone.  Therefore, I moved forward with washing all the models with a Soft Tone. Here is what it looked like. 

Well, they look finished now.  All that is left is the basing now.  I used the standard Territorial Brown craft paint with scatter moss sprinkled on to make my bases.  Nothing fancy and it gives a good effect.  It also matches my other Historical armies.  

Here was the final 52 models.  Two units of archers, one unit of slingers, 1 skirmisher with Javelins, and 1 unit that could be skirmishers or Irregulars.  Then, two random priests that are not part of the army but came in the set and I thought they would be cool to have around and painted up for various reasons.    

With that, this batch of 52 is complete!  I went and put them with the rest of the army in order to get a couple full army shots and some unit close-ups.  

  Some Skirmishers.....

Some missile troops....

With that, my first big project for 2025 can be crossed off the list!  92 models done for 2025! Done.  Now, onto the next project, which will probably be some Heroquest heroes from First Light. 

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On The Painting Desk: Batching Anglo-Saxons

If you recall my goals for 2025 was to complete painting my Anglo-saxon army.  I picked it up from Victrix miniatures using Late Anglo-Danes and Early Saxon kits.  I went ahead and assembled and painted the first few units, a Noble unit and 3 Fryd units. That will be the core of the army.  However, an Anglo-saxon army is more than just a shieldwall!  

Now, it is time to build and paint the remaining units for the army.  That is two units of Skirmishers and one unit of archers or slingers.  However, I am making 20 archers and 10 slingers because I can.  The great thing about the Victrix Dark Age Archers is that they will work fine in my Anglo-saxon, Viking, and other Dark Age armies for Fury of the Northman.  For the Skirmishers, I am using a mix of the Late and Early Saxon set that I had left-over from the shield wall.  The Early Saxons had better parts for Skirmishers, but most of the bodies were tunic wearers from the Late Anglo-Danes kit.  It took me a bit to assemble them all, but here we go..... plus two Monks just because.  

The next step is of course to prime.  Of course, the weather in my area is not conducive to priming in the winter time.  Therefore, instead of the usual Grey Seer spray paint prime.  The alternative was my usual white undercoat with a brush that I have used on my historicals in the past.  However, that is not how I did the Shieldwalls, so that made me pause before deciding what to do next. 

Thankfully, we had a moment of clear weather and that solved my issue. I was able to get outside and get these bad boys Grey Seer undercoated.  Crisis averted!  However, I lost a few weeks waiting for that to happen.  

With the priming done, it was time to just lean into it and get batch painting!  By now, I have a very familiar process for this.  I did not plan on deviating from it this time, because it works really well for me.  Only 50 or so models to do in this batch but none of them have shields!  That will make this batch much quicker!  

I generally get a decent amount of time to paint on the weekends as my wife is a full-time student and employee.  Therefore, at least 1 day on the weekend she is doing homework all day.  That means, the house is fairly quiet and I need to entertain myself for a while.    

That means I had a Saturday to work on these Anglo-saxons.  I was able to give everyone some flesh using Barbarian Flesh from the Armypainter line.  Then, I set about batch painting.  I always start with shoes, and I typically use two or three different colors for it.  This time I uses Oak Brown, Leather Brown, and Fur Brown for the footwear.  Typically, every third man and then fill in any gaps at the end.  

Then, I did their leggings.  Not all of the models had leggings.  My perception was that it was a distinct minority.  However, I still used three different colors on the Leggings.  Armypainter Skeleton Bone, Desert Yellow, and Mummy Robes.  

Next was the trousers.  Here I used about five different colors with each unit of 10 only using it once or twice.  Therefore, the force would have similar colors but each unit was relatively unique in their attire.  For the trouser I used a variety of colors from Scaly Hide, Army Green, Deep Blue, Daemonic Yellow, Uniform Grey. Leather Brown, all the way to Pure Red.  

Most of these models are just wearing a single piece tunic that covers the arms and goes down to the knees.  However, there are a few that were wearing an underlayer.  The models wearing leather armor had it over their tunics as well.  Therefore, I used the same colors I had used on the Leggings to paint the under garments as well.  I made sure to avoid matching the same colors of leggings, trousers, and under garments.  No one duplicated colors.  Everyone was pretty much had their bottom halves painted, but after the first Saturday they still looked like they had a long way to go!        

  

Then, a disaster struck.  I was stricken with Influenza A!  It hit me pretty hard, and I was out of commission for two weekends.  That really messed up my timing!  Once my Influenza A cleared up I got back to work, but the spark was still not really there.  Time to grind.

I used the same colors I had used on the trousers and undergarments for the tunics.  Honestly, this is the bulk of the models surface area.  I think getting the tunics done means that these models are about halfway.  All that is left is belts, weapons, hair, and hats.  Mostly small things, but things none the less.  

After a month of working on these guys, I am a bit behind on the progress I wanted.  I expected to be this far after two weeks, not four.  However, now that I am healthy I just need to finish them off and grind the last bits out.  

I think I am going to call it an update for this week.  Until next time! 

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On The Painting Desk: Anglo-Saxons are Back on the Menu!

 

Last year, I picked up an Anglo-saxon army from Victrix using a combination of Late Anglo-saxon, Early Anglo-saxon, and Dark Age Archers ranges.  I started by painting up the Anglo-saxon shield wall infantry.  I left off the process here: 

 I still had to do the finishing touches on these troops.  They needed a good basing and their shields done up.  One thing about shields, is it is almost like painting up another miniature!  So much of the attention will be taken up by the shields!  

Therefore, I decided to start off phase II by doing the bases!  This is a simple coat of Territorial Beige of cheap big, box acrylics.  Then, when the paint is still wet, I sprinkle in some lichen for some ground cover.  Nothing fancy and all easily sourced at your local Big Box retailer.  With bases these little plastic dudes look like this.  

That led me to the shields.  The bloody shields.  I paint all my shields on the sprue to start with.  I find them much easier to manipulate this way.  I undercoated them with a cheap acrylic white.  Then, I start by batch painting them with some sort of wooden color like Fur Brown, Bestial Brown, Oaken wood, Desert Yellow, and Skeleton Bone.  This gives them their wooden base and frames.  From there, I give them an initial coat of white, green, blue or red.  This often takes two coats for good coverage.  Then, I paint their metal boss a metallic color.

Now comes the hard part.  Vikings shields, and Anglo-Saxon shields, tend to have quartered or other similar designs.  Those are not easy to free hand, but I am going to give it a shot.  I have done it before, and I will do it again.  Here is a quick tutorial on how to do basic Dark Age shield designs.  

First, you paint 4 to 8 lines on the face of the shield in the alternate color.  It reminds me of slicing a pie or pizza.  Yum.  Shields from the period tended to be whole colors, halved, quartered, and in eighths.  

Second, you fill in the tops and bottoms of the wedges in alternating pieces of the pie.  This informs which wedges you are going to fill in. 

Lastly, you just put paint in the wedge where it belongs.  Ta-da!  Now it is time to go eat some pie!  Only 39 more to go! 

Once you have painted all the designs, the bosses are done, and the frames are all blocked you take the final and most important step.  You slather in a Strong Tone wash to help cover up all your sins and lack of coverage!

Finally, you remove them from the sprue and attach them to the models.  Fun fact about Viking and round shields from this period is that they were carried in one-hand and had no supporting straps.  That means they were not worn on the forearm like the Kite shield.  They were held out in front in a single fist along the center axis of the shield.  They were also rather light weight and mostly protection against missile weapons unless they were overlapped for extra strength.  This allowed for a variety of tactics for individual shield usage but also shields overlapped with others reinforced and strengthen each shield for a shield wall, while keep each individual shield light and easy to carry.  They were also often slung on the back when two hands needed to be free.  

The Fyrd all ready to fight! 

 

The Earl Eirkir and his noble Thegns

On the models you can see how the shields were held-out in the fist, as opposed to strapped on the arm.  If you try the arm mounting, no one would have their shield in the proper position for fighting!  

That finishes up the shield wall infantry for my Anglo-saxon force.  40 guys batch painted.  The shields are almost like painting another half dude!  The Fyrd were all from Victrix's Early Saxon box, while the Thegns were from the late Anglo-Saxon kit.  I figured the bosses would have the best, most modern gear while the Fyrd maybe not so much. 

This army still needs 20 skirmishers and 30 archers before I call it done.  This will give me more than enough units to mix and match a bit to take on Erik Greybeard and his Viking raiders or King Errc and his Dark Age Irish using Fury of the Northman.  

Here is the infantry out on the table, formed up for battle.  

   Until next time! 

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On The Painting Desk: Anglo-Saxon Shieldwall for Fury of the Northman

 

The first big painting project of 2025.  I am working on an Anglo-Saxon army for Fury of the Northman.  I picked up the miniatures for it in 2024 but did not get the time to work on it back then.  However, it is winter time and there is no better time to paint a big project than now.  I am using a combination of Victrix kits, the Late Anglo-Saxons, the Early Anglo-Saxons, and the Dark Age Archers kit for this army.  The army will look like this: 

• 1 Unit of Shieldwall Nobles as Thegns from the Late Anglo-Saxon kits
• 3 Units of Shieldwall Militia as Fyrd from the Early Anglo-Saxon kits
• 2 Units of skirmishers/irregulars from a mix of Early and Late Anglo-Saxon kits
• 3 Units of Archers from the Dark Age Archer kits

That is enough for an army plus some swappable extras to play against my Dark Age Irish and my Viking force.  That will allow a pretty decent campaign mix.  Still thinking about a Muslim army for this period too. 

I decided to get started on the Shieldwall infantry first.  That is the heart of most armies in the Viking Age isn't it?  Well...... no..... but it is for this one!  I have been spoiled by all those Heroquest models because I forgot what a pain it is to actually assemble your models!  That really slowed me down.  However, I soon had the 40 shieldwall models all assembled and put on washers.  Then, before painting I of course gave them an undercoat of Grey Seer.  

Before I got started, I decided I was NOT going to be using Speedpaints on these guys.  All of my other Historical models I use the base coat and a wash method.  So these fit in, I decided I wanted to do the same with this army.  Therefore, after spray undercoating it was time to start batch painting.  

Here is a quick look at my batch painting technique.  I have obviously batch painted a few armies in my time, so I think I have a decent technique down for it.  First thing I do, is paint all of their flesh and all of their shoes/boots.  I typically use three different colors for their footwear.  

From there, I start painting from the lowest layer up.  Typically, that is the pants!  I decide on the various colors of pants I want, then I start to break them up into smaller groups, so that each unit will only have one or two guys with the same color pants.  

I then, do the same thing with the next layer.  In this case, it was going to be the leggings.  I typically use the same colors I just make sure a guy with that color pants doesn't get the same color leggings.  I then make one last mix up for their tunics.  I tend to do the same thing but with fewer colors and larger batches for all the colors as I move up the model, so belts, hafts, armor/helms, etc.  You may have also noticed that I keep all the shields off, I paint those on the sprue separately and add them just before basing.  

Of course, I got a bit impatient and spent some time away from the Fyrd, and focused on the Thegns and got them done the fastest of all the Shieldwall infantry..... woops......

All that chainmail was just begging for me to finish it off.  Afterall, they look so... unfinished... in all that gun metal and polished silver.  I couldn't let that stand!  I finished the base colors with a nice coat of Strong Tone wash. The guy in the purple cloak is supposed to be my Earl.  I like to give my officers purple..... it is a hang-over from my ancients painting.  Any excuse to use purple am I right!  Like the Fyrd, I will be painting the shields and adding them last.  

With a small hit of Dopamine to help me get to the end, I went back to working on batch painting the Fyrd with my tried and true method.  I mean, it is only 30 of them right!  The biggest "batch" to batch painting with these guys will be their tunics.  I mean, these look super comfy and I am hoping one day they come back in style!  It is basically a really long and flowing shirt belted around the hips?  I would wear that.  

Look, it's the Power Rangers: Dark Ages!  Go, go Power Rangers!  Here the Fyrd are about half finished.  From here, it is about painting up the belts, pouches and gear that they are all wearing.  This is mostly Skeleton Bone, Dessert Yellow, Leather Brown, and Fur Brown.  Again, each model typically uses two different gear colors to mix it up.  Since I use those colors on their tunics (or are they tabards?) you have to make sure you don't make the belt and gear the same color as the clothing.  Easy to do when batch painting.  

It is always amazing to me how "finished" a model becomes when you paint their weapons.  I could have a full unit painted, but not their weapons and it would look like I still had a ton left to do!  Since they are spears, I mixed it up with different colors on the hafts using the same colors as their belts.  Then, I painted up all the metal, including helmets, buckles, spear points with a variety of Plate Mail, Gun Metal, Bronze, and a few Metallic Speedpaints for variety.  Once again, hair color was one of my favorite parts using a some yellow, and orange, but mostly ash grey, dark stone, fur brown, and monster brown.  The base colors were all in place! 

The last step to finishing the basics on these guys was a nice Strong Tone wash using my Armypainter washes.  The Strong Tone is black based and it works well with Chain Mail and armored minis.  These guys are not wearing chain, but I used it on the Nobles.  I felt like if I switched to a Light or Soft Tone they would not blend in as well.  Those tones are sepia based.  So, with some trepidation I hit them with the Strong Tone......

Oh yeah, that darkened them up.  However the blend in pretty good with the leader squad.  The only left to do is to base them and get their shields painted.  Man, I hate painting shields, but especially Dark Age shields.  You can see how it went last time with my Vikings, but you will have to see how these turn out.  

Painting these 40 guys to this level took me about 4 days of work, spread over a couple weeks of time, a few colors here and there.  I rarely get to just sit down and paint for 3 days straight!  Most of my painting projects I pack up in between sessions, but these guys just sat on the desk and waited pateintly.  I do not think I would enjoy just sitting down and painting all day!  I tend to do a color or two, get up, do something else for a bit, and then come back to it.  

Next up, I will go over the shields and start in on the Skirmishers and Archers.  Probably another batch of 30-50 guys.  Until next time! 

Bonus Content! 

I managed to go down and play some of the new edition of Kill Team with the True Crit Gaming Guild.  I took the Hand of the Archon out to play since it had an actual Kill Team box and I hoped the rules were still current.  No idea still, but my opponent was nice enough to let me use what I had.  

I honestly only picked up on a few differences compared to the last edition.  Of course, the missions changed, some of the keyword rules changes a bit, assets changed, and the way Conceal/Engage worked changed a bit.  They also ditched the stupid shapes instead of numbers thing.  However, it seemed to play pretty much the same after that.  However, it is also possible that I never knew the old rules well enough to notice the differences!  

This was a classic battle of dwarves vs. elves, as my friend took the new League of Votann Scavengers for their list.  I couldn't tell you too much about them, except they seemed to be a close ranged team.  They had shotguns and a lot of pistols and CC dudes.  I had them pretty well shot up, and managed to out flank them.  We scored points by being in the enemy control zones and deployment zones.  They had some resourceful tricks, but ultimately the Dark Eldar were nastier this time.  

I saw the Hivestorm box at the store, but ultimately I doubt I will pick it up unless I come into some sort of windfall.  I really do not need two new Kill Teams when I all ready have more than I will probably use!  Plus, I am not sure the rules changes are enough where I feel like I need the update to the newest edition in order to keep engaging with it on a casual level.  

Until next time!  

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