21/10/2018

Battle of Five Armies Boardgame

First of all, I'm talking about this, not the GW one:


If you look back on this blog, you may see that I'm not scared of losing sanity points painting these games. I already did that with the War of the Ring boardgame (Pt.1 and Pt. 2, and even played it!) So, what are a few hundreds of minis, what do they mean to me? Nothing! Nothing, I say!

The blurriness is just the effect of my tears as I behold the endeavour
OK. So during these last weeks I've been slowly painting both armies, unit by unit. The minis are essentially the same that the War of the Ring ones, so I was familiar with them (extra loss of sanity points though, as this project was about painting the same minis again!). This time I started with the Armies of Darkness:

The Orcs
The Trolls (no paratroll incident this time)
Bats (these are new! Yay!)
Crossbowmen. Crossboworcs. Whatever
Warg riders

All of them!
Now to the Free Peoples:

Men of Esgaroth
Mirkwood Elves
More Mirkwood Elves
Dwarves
The Eagles
All of them too
We also have some characters:
Bolg, Gwaihir, Beorn, Thorin, Bilbo, Gandalf, Bard, Dáin and Thranduil.

The aforementioned
Phew! I'm hoping to show good pics of them on the board anytime soon! They certainly have deserved that (you wouldn't expect me to play with unpainted minis if it was in my power to avoid that, right?)

Now I wonder if I should eBay a GW BOFA... Hmmmm....
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16 comments:

  1. Michal DwarfCrypt22/10/2018, 05:36

    Woooow! Excellent work!

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    1. Suber22/10/2018, 23:29

      Thanks! I'm still having nightmares :D

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  2. Conrad Kinch22/10/2018, 21:37

    You fool, you poor brave fool.

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    1. Suber22/10/2018, 23:32

      Now every other single project looks out of scale, both by size and numbers...

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  3. caveadsum147122/10/2018, 22:27

    Lovely looking armies! So 28mm? They look great!
    Best Iain

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    1. Suber22/10/2018, 23:33

      Thanks! But not at all, these may be about 18-20mm. It is insane enough just as it is! :D

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  4. (Kym) + Warburton + (Classic40K) 23/10/2018, 01:37

    Wow! Great work!

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    1. Suber24/10/2018, 00:19

      Thanks! I'm looking forward to playing!

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  5. Simon Quinton 23/10/2018, 15:09

    Nice brushwork. They will certainly enhance the game experience.

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    1. Suber24/10/2018, 00:21

      Thank you! I hope so! It's quite disencouraging to battle over hundreds (hundreds!) of soulless unpainted minis! No gentleman should suffer that.

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  6. Maj. Guiscard24/10/2018, 14:15

    Wow! That completely changes how I see that boardgame. Instead of a sort of "Risk" thing, where I'm just here to play the game with updated colored blocks. Now it's a total miniature wargame.

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    1. Suber24/10/2018, 23:28

      Thank you! That was my aim, it really makes the game experience different. It worked with the War of the Ring game:
      https://oldschoolworkshop.blogspot.com/2013/04/playing-war-of-ring-boardgame.html
      I think it's worth the work, you don't need it to be perfect, just to be visually attractive.

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  7. FourEyedMonster01/11/2018, 04:52

    Only a fellow miniature painter can understand the endeavor you went through to paint so many minis and all at such high quality. I salute you sir :)

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    1. Suber01/11/2018, 14:13

      Thank you very much! It's been a challenge, but I think it paid off. I can't wait to play a game!

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  8. Wouter11/11/2018, 05:05

    While not my taste with so many identical miniatures, the miniatures themselves are actually quite good.
    Kudos on getting them all painted up at such high standard Sir.

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    1. Suber15/11/2018, 00:20

      I know what you mean and I agree, but I simply lacked the mental strenght to make conversions on all of them! :D

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