PeteF: Hearthguard for SAGA Age of Magic (20 points)

There are two local groups that play SAGA - most of our games are Age of Vikings, a few are Age of Crusades and a number of people are interested in Age of Magic. Most of my fantasy stuff is based on big multibases for Kings of War so I'm starting from scratch to build my SAGA AoM armies - although some of the monsters will work for both systems on their existing bases.

These are Mantic figures for Kings of War/Vanguard from the Northern Alliance faction - not sure where they got the brilliant idea for a bunch of fur clad northern beserk beardy types wearing heavy furs and wielding even heavier weapons.  The tiny head/big shoulders aesthetic is typical Mantic.

Three of the figures are made from that Restik stuff and I'm not really a fan - there always seem to be a lot of mold lines and I inevitably miss a couple and can't face cleaning it up once there's paint on the model. Restik does support a lot of detail - perhaps too much.

Not having an Osprey to turn to I consulted with a colour expert to try and fix some of the initial problems I had trying to find something to work with the blue - I really like the colour shift paints for fantasy metallics.  This one is "Blue Raspberry" from Turbodork.

In the SAGA system a unit of hearthguard is one point and the recommended army size for Age of Magic is 8 points so I'm hoping to get a whole army finished over the course of the quarantine, even allowing for other distractions. I played my first game of quarantine SAGA on Table Top Simulator last week and it was a lot of fun - it's quite easy to accidentally drop your figures and have them go rolling all over the place - at least you don't have to reglue and repaint them.