Refighting Chronopia with Midgard 3

 Colin and I tried another outing with my Chronopia armies. This time I had tweaked the Devout list to give them a separate magic user, as the Army Commander had been too busy in the previous game to use and spells.

Turn One:

The Devout start off as the Attacker and move forward. The Stygian match them and I charge my unit of Great Warriors (Knihjts) into the end of the Devout battle line. Out of camera shot are the two lighter mounted units on either end of my line, who were intend the envelope the Devout armies flanks, but both refused to pass their second movement!

The Great Warriors charge! 

A view from the Devout side of the table.

Some outstanding dice rolling for the Great Warriors, wiping the Risen unit out in a single round of melee!

 

Turn Two

The Devout's turn to get aggressive. The fast moving Tormented charge the Warriors in front of them, the Soul Flayer Demon flys across the rocky ground and slams into the unit behind.

 

On the flank the unit of Swordsmen  turn and, passing their second movement test, charge the Great Warriors. Who fail to countercharge!!!

As expected, the Tormented push the little Stygian Warrior back.

As does the Soul Flayer Demon.

But, despite suffering casualties, the Great Warriors push their attackers back.

The Stygian turn and the Priestess casts a Weakness spell on the Cursed Axemen (reducing their armour). Then the Stygian Guardian leads the Embalmed in a charge into the reeling axemen. Gaining a good bonus of Reputation Points, Hero charging, Army Commander charging and targeting the enemy Army Commander. They wipe the Cursed out and their Commander runs to the safety on the nearby unit.

On the other side of the table the Starved charge the Greatswordsmne in front of them. The Starved are a bit of a one-shot weapon, very effective in combate but lacking in armour, so die quickly.

A view of the Soul Flayer from the unfortunate Stygian perspective, just before the Demon rips the last survivors apart.

At the end of Turn Two the Reputation is 8:5 to the Stygian army (I'd already turned the die over before taking this picture).

 

Turn Three

Blood and guts all over the place in this turn, as units fade away on both sides of the table. The Damned (nasty big beastie) charges into a fresh unit of warriors.

Devout Greatswordsmen charge the badly wounded Embalmed, killing it. This is a nasty shock for the Stygian, the creature is a loss of 5 Rep points!!! Somehow the unit facing the Tormented fight it to a standstill.

The Damned gets pushed back and the Staved and their opponents cut each other down, leaving the two Heroes to fight on. In the Stygian combat round the Heroes batter away at each other, taking a wound apeice, before the Stygian falls beneath his opponent's blade.

I manage to charge a fresh unit into the rear of the tormented and the creature is slain. But the battlefield is looking pretty empty now.

At the end of Turn Three we both had Zero Reputation. We decided to call it there, as neither of us could see a way that either side could make much difference in the following turn. A Draw, we had battered each other to a standstill.

A great fun game to play. Very bloody and fast. As neither side had any missile capability to speak of, it was just a case of getting stuck in to the gory business as quickly as possible.

I've got a lot of painting to do! Part 2

 Now for the Player Characters in my Wildspire "Realm Reforged" set. There are 59 various minis, covering assorted D&D classes and races. I do play D&D, but most of these will find a use in almost any fantasy setting.

First up, a bunch of thieves/rogues, very useful for so many things.

A bunch of clerics (or fighters who prefer up employ blunt force trauma).

Shootie types.

More general purpose fighters/heroes/paladins/meat-shields.

A couple of batches of wizards/sorcerers/magicians, general magicy types.

A little group of civilians.

Lasty, some character types more specific to D&D, although I'm sure I will find somewhere to fit some in to my games. 

Four bards.

Four Monks.

Four Druids.

 All in all, a useful bunch of minis, that will keep me busy painting for a while. I expect some will see the table in a game soon! 

Overall, I am very happy with these set and very glad a persevered and gave Wildspire a chance. I would certain recommend them to anyone in search of reasonable quality, budget minis. 

Now I just hope they will do something with Blacks**t Games' Dire Alliance Horror set. 

I've got a lot of painting to do!

I've just had 223 28mm fantasy minis turn up!

                                      


This is the Wildspire Miniatures "Realm Reforged" not-Kickstarter that was delivered as a late Christmas present! This was originally the Blacklist Games Fantasy 2 Kickstarter, which I pledged back in 2021!! As many already know, after much bullshitting Blacklist Games finally admitted in January 2025 that they were never going to fulfil the pledges and left around 12,000 backers empty handed. Wildspire purchased the rights to the range from Blacklist, then, very generously in my opinion, offered a half-price deal to any BLG victims who were prepared to take a gamble on them. Well, in less than a year they have fulfilled their promise and delivered on time, as well as keeping up constant and informative communication.

Enough of that, water under the bridge etc, to my delight a box was delivered to my sweaty little paws by Fedex this very day!

Which contained two boxes of minis.

The much smaller reinforcements box was an optional add-on for those who wanted to up the rank-and-file foes from 4 to 5 of each to match the numbers in the BLG Fantasy 1 set.

This little box contained 28 minis and a nice little illustrated list to remind you which gribbly was which.

Let's use this to examine the arrow fodder, so here's the full cast.

Close ups of some of them, starting with the Gnoll archer, Lizardfolk warrior, Hobgoblin and Bear.

Giant snake, giant scorpion, lesser demon and wolf (a blues fan?).

Moving on to the main box, which has 4 each of all the minions, plus 1 each of the characters, bad-guy leaders and larger monsters.

Some of which are BIG, starting with a Trent and Hydra.

The Cyclops and Frost Giant, with a Vendel mini for scale.

Griffon and chimera. 

The Ancient Dweller (obviously not Cthulhu).

Some medium creatures, Yeti, Owlbear, Minotaur and Manticore.

Ettin, Zombie Ogre and Djinn.

Then the man-sized leaders, Gnoll pack leader, Lich and Orc warlord.

Lizardfolk Shaman, Bandit Leader, Goblin Boss and Goblin Shaman.

I've still got all the characters to sort out, but they will have to wait for another day. I'm very pleased with the minis, they are reasonably detailed, certainly for my standard of painting! They will definitely keep me busy over the next few months.