'Red Contingent' for Gudugan Pudugan

I continue churning out painted 6mm lasercut figures from Commission Figurines, for my Gudugan Pudugan (that is Ancients era) project. I plan to have enough figures to field large battles.

I had to have some sort of organization system for the 500+ infantry and 200 cavalry, so I started colour coding them, this is the first batch completed, the part that is painted red.

6mm Ancients Test Basing

I made a larger order with Commission Figurines in September/October. I'm actually kind of slow on reducing stockpile, the Bloody figures I bought in April are just being completed. Anyway, half of that order was about eight hundred 6mm lasercut Ancient figures, infantry and cavalry. They are meant for the late Republican Roman period, but what I really wanted was some generic bods for my Gudugan Pudugan rules.

There are seven troop types in Gudugan Pudugan (which can of course be used to fight historical battles as well), and once I had the figures and the bases required, I set out to try my basing concept which would help discern the troop types and give armies a unified overall look.

The Battle of Tun Gus Wood

I wrote a test scenario for my Ancients/Bronze Age/Tribal ruleset Gudugán Pudugán. The rules and the scenario are available from the separate sub-pages in the header of the blog. The scenario is more or less based on one from One Hour Wargames, with a bit of a Gudugán Pudugán specialty twist.

On the image above, we see both the armies of Karhutu (northern table edge) and Osomano (south) deployed, the Osomanoan cavalry making an advance in the center around Tun Gus Wood.

Takar Chalun's Mercenary Army

Takar Chalun* is a mercenary warlord, currently employed by the Cities of Bandar Tuk, serving with High General Leuha Taton's Army of the Eastern Approaches. His warband is small but effective; the War God Judha Puduganur had smiled on him many times, and he became wealthy and influential in the court of Rehemana. 

Hex Conquest!

I've been tinkering with my Ancient/Fantasy rules Battles of the Riverland for a while, and also playing with the 1990 computer game Centurio: Defender of Rome. The love child of the two is Hex Conquest, a small 11-page PDF.

I have also created five sets of printable "armies", or to be precise, one type of unit in five colors. These can be printed at a thick card, or normal thin paper, then glued on some sturdier piece - the idea is much alike that of the printable Napoleonic armies produced earlier.

Here's a Blue battle infantry unit for a teaser:

You can access both the rules and armies from the links below, and from the Rules page:

Hex Conquest rules
Hex Conquest printable armies

6mm Skirmish

With limited time and space, I devised a little game suited for 6mm figures on a very small area. The area might have been just a bit too small, but the effect is the same. 

The game uses something very similar to Ganesha Games' combat resolution (1d6+modifiers both for attacker and defender), but fixed movement rates and no dice activation. I will upload the rules to the Rules page after a complete revision (which, if it happens, will happen tomorrow). As I go to work (and every other Monday to school) starting 8 in the morning, by 9pm I usually get tired.

I had finished the GNW Swedes by the way so expect a complete muster in a few days.

6mm Ancients(?)

About 250 Baccus figures in this lot: 1 set of Hittite infanry (I think), 1 of peltasts, 1 archers, 3 chariots. The infantry boxes contain 96, the archers 48, the chariots 4. This was sort of an impulse buy two or three months ago and the painted figures had been lying around waiting to be based for quite a long time, and when I started completing the process I figured out some enhancement on the paintjobs was needed too...

I think the theme requires a little explanation as I have, in the grand scheme, about 0 Ancients figures. I'm running a Mythical RPG (it's been stalling for a while) using Swords&Wizardry. We created the world with Dawn of Worlds and in my games we focus on the human Riverland cultures and the Nomads of the Steppe. It is a shameless act for writing material. Once everything is fleshed out I will translate the rough 'script' to a novel and for this end we record every session. The characters started at level 5 and avoided real harm (even performed greatly when they were fighting the sole boss they come through so far) for a while now. 

The figures are for two armies. The kingdoms of the Riverland are at war with the invading city state of Hatti, the ones in the white/light grey are the good guys (e.g. the players are allied with them).