A second elephant has made it off the painting desk and into the battleline of my ancient Indian army. It feels good to add another base to the steadily growing collection. This one didn’t take that long to do.
I have two more elephants and crew in the prep stage, and one more in the lead pile somewhere. I’m thinking somewhere between 4 and 6 elephants will be enough to give me a good starting army for most rule sets.
Speaking of rules, I’m currently enjoying another read through Simon Miller’s To The Strongest! For my 20mm collections, a grid size of 120 or 130mm boxes should work quite well, which keeps the table size within about 5’ x 3’, if I use the recommended 12 x 8 boxes. I like the relative simplicity of the rules and the fact that the mechanics should work well for solo gaming. Not sure how I feel about having playing cards on the table, so I might go with the option of using dice or numbered tokens instead.
The two finished elephants together. I like the thought of a long line of these on the tabletop! It’s certainly a motivation to keep the project rolling forward.
Another great addition, TtS! seem like great rules, I bought some mini decks of cards but found it all a bit fiddly haha. I quite often go down the homebrew route for rules.
ReplyDeleteI suppose a combination of cards and numbered tokens might work. Using the cards to turn but putting tokens beside the units to avoid clutter. I think writing my own rules might be too much too soon for an ancients newbie like me, but I can definitely see myself tinkering with published rules!
DeleteAnother option is to use a D10 for activations, attacks, saves, etc then use the tokens to track the activation roll
DeleteYes, that’s a good idea. Allows me to still enjoy rilling dice as well!
DeleteLovely painting. If you wanted anymore colour, remember that Asian elephants can have varying amounts of flesh coloured areas and freckles down their trunks and across their ears.
ReplyDeleteThanks Robert. Yes, it’s just a simple paint job on the elephant skin, more to make it quick than anything else. I might go back at some point and put some washes and colour tints on. I’d also thought about adding some painted designs to the elephant heads and trunks, which would look good as well.
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