Campaign board

 

Defending the Realm uses an 11x11 square grid to keep track of the six armies wandering about between the capital city, two towns, and four nomad camps, before they meet up and you move to the tabletop for the battle. So I built myself a little board for it and will use some single 10mm figures as the armies. The buildings are from Brigade Models.

I also came up with a very simple way to have the doorways in the dungeon be open or shut that  looks okay. I’m having a definite leaning towards functional in this, but they look okay too.

There’s another batch of the pieces done too. They take almost a week to completely dry out so it really is a batch exercise.

I thought I had now made at least one piece of everything, but then realised that I ought to model  up some “dead end” pieces too, so those will be in the next batch. I have thought of a way to make use of the first test pieces that were much too thin, so I’m happy they won’t be thrown away. 

Meanwhile, the last of the stuff I need to complete the 10mm project has arrived and I’m starting in on the town walls for the siege battles. These are Cromarty Forge again and they are going to be excellent for actually playing on.

You may have spotted some of the siege engines to go with this in the WIP shots, and here’s the latest. There are two siege towers, one closed up and one with the ramp in position. I’ve actually finished a few odds and ends that go with these but I’m holding them back for  completed photos.

Also in the WIP are the last Narnian unit and the start of two Nomad units (Beastmen and some Britons Chariots) with two more (Samurai Rats and Wood Elf cavalry) to come. You can also see the single figure pieces for the campaign board. 

So that was my week, how about yours?