The grand army of King Bruno the Questionable (Bretonnia)

Having a crisis, what do you guys do when your half way through something and you change your mind? I'm not feeling the blue and white crosses for my Knightly Order of Undead hunters, I'm drawn towards the heraldry of William Marshall (the knight, not the actor in Blackula). Problem is I've already done the basecoating on most of em, do I stay on course and finish something I'm loosing motivation for or change and take even longer???

My rabbit keep saying rule of cool, change it. I keep saying your a bloody rabbit, how the hell are you talking?
 
hmmmm never changed my mind I don't think.
I guess what I would do, is park the thing in question.
Go and start/continue something else and then take another look in a few days and see if I still feel the same.
 
Makes sense lol. Tbh the blue paint isn't bluing how I want it, it's either too bright or the shading isn't really showing. That and it looks like I have medieval Ultramarines. 🤣

And William Marshall WAS the greatest Knight to ever live. Supposedly, never met the guy myself. I really should go and see his tomb, being a Knight and castle obsessed Englishman.
 
After staring at the minis I painted like the old studio army for about an hour this morning drinking my body weight in coffee and Monster I have decided to repaint them. Whilst it's nice copying the old colours it's not 'MY' army so they will be getting King Bruno's white/red quartered heraldry.

Hopefully now I have more of a plan in my head on what I'm doing things should get painted a bit faster. Im getting the hang of quartered schemes now so it's not so stressful to do.

Unfortunately I have to go outside and interact with people, need more mephiston red. Don't like people or peopling at the best of times and towns rammed today, it's literally my idea of hell. May the gods bless me on my quest, and my side quest of marsbar and milkshake acquisition.
 
Slave to Darkness said:
After staring at the minis I painted like the old studio army for about an hour this morning drinking my body weight in coffee and Monster I have decided to repaint them. Whilst it's nice copying the old colours it's not 'MY' army so they will be getting King Bruno's white/red quartered heraldry.

Hopefully now I have more of a plan in my head on what I'm doing things should get painted a bit faster. Im getting the hang of quartered schemes now so it's not so stressful to do.

Unfortunately I have to go outside and interact with people, need more mephiston red. Don't like people or peopling at the best of times and towns rammed today, it's literally my idea of hell. May the gods bless me on my quest, and my side quest of marsbar and milkshake acquisition.
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Stay strong noble adventurer - may your sword stay sharp and your quest be rewarded with pigment and sugar!
 
Found half a pot of mephiston that needs a lil water added, that's saved me a walk into town. So I got more energy drinks. 😆

At this rate I'll be dead of a caffeine overdose by evening. Just need someone to cast raise the dead on me so I can paint beyond the grave.
 
Slave to Darkness said:
Found half a pot of mephiston that needs a lil water added, that's saved me a walk into town. So I got more energy drinks. 😆

At this rate I'll be dead of a caffeine overdose by evening. Just need someone to cast raise the dead on me so I can paint beyond the grave.
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That much caffeine and my shakes would really mess up my painting.
 
Finally located the Brettonian War Altar mini, Athena miniatures have the moulds and should be back in production soon. That got me thinking, what would be the best way to use said Altar in a game?
 
well.. being for Brets (which are.. old norman themed... for some reason)... mm.. Cover it in Cheese and Onion while sacrificing your young saviorette? ^_^; wait.. next year is the 'European Year of Normans' for.. whatever reason.. and my town is very much connected with the Normans...

anyway. Joking aside.. No clue. I have no clue about altar's and stuff.
 
Ha, I mean it seems there are 2 main options.
Keep it behind a core unit and use the bonuses whilst shielding it from harm?
Stick it on a wagon and have it speed around the field rallying routing/struggling troops?
 
Checking the rules.. You are probably gonna want to have it pretty mobile to back up your troops. All friendlies need to be within 12" to get the bonus, so you want to be able to get it where it's needed, so being more mobile with a Wagon would make more sense. You already get the altar guards to help defend it and the only benefit with keeping it just behind a core unit, would surely be wiped out with the fact that the Altar would move slowly (the altar guards which carry and defend it are reduced to half speed, so even the 12" radius (boy, more of the Brets are either horse back or lowly peasants ^_^) you have a normal human moving at 4 inch's a turn. the Altar stuck at 2 inchs a turn. Either your melee troop are going to have to stay behind out of hand to hand (as the main benefit of the altar IS in hand to hand combat), or it's gonna fall behind pretty quickly.

So being on a wagon, it'll be able to keep up with a group, or move into position with a group that needs a bit of extra help.
 
ManicMan said:
well.. being for Brets (which are.. old norman themed... for some reason).
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Is that not because Normandy is next to Brittany and Breton is the language of those from Brittany?
I daresay, though would have to look it up that neighbouring provinces likely have similar vibes?
It is in true GW style a mish mash of similar and related things so the reason for almost every early GW world building decisions was likely:

"just cos"

( That and GW had a load of historical French models to shift in their new fantasy world. ? )



They have been French flavoured forever after all?
 
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