Shrines and Roadside Markers released for Sengoku 15mm range

“Do you know the way to Edo?” 

It is with great delight that Alternative Armies make a new pack and singles release for the Sengoku 15mm Japanese Fantasy Range. Shrines and Marker Stones to give your gaming table some extra scenic detail and to give interest to dioramas and to the bases of your humans and creatures. There are a great many new miniatures coming from designer John Bell and each month we will be added more to the Sengoku range. All of these releases will go well with and expand upon the Sengoku Monster Hunter game. Go HERE for the range or read on for more information. 

SGFP34 Japanese Shrines and Marker Stones 

This pack contains twelve scenic one piece miniatures in a mix of five types taken from codes SGF108 to SGF112. Typical mix is as follows. Two Hokora Roadside Shrines, two Carved Milestones, two Humped Milestones, four Small Dosojin and three Oranate Dosojin. This pack offers a small saving off single purchase of these codes. Go HERE. You can also purchase all one hundred or so codes in the range as single miniatures including these new five. 

SGF108 Hokora Roadside Shrine 

A small shrine dedicated to the spirits and to protect passing travellers for the wilds of the roads. This one piece resin miniature stands 20mm tall and the same across at the widest point. An excellent addition to your collection and for your table. Supplied unpainted and without a base. Go HERE. Price 2.00GBP. 

SGF109 Carved Milestone 

By the side of the major roads of mythical Japan there are milestones telling the distance to the nearest places of note. This one piece resin miniature stands 14mm tall. Use it to guide the way across the table. Supplied unpainted and without a base. Go HERE. Price 1.00GBP. 

SGF110 Humped Milestone 

By the side of the side roads of mythical Japan there are milestones telling the distance to the nearest places of note. This one piece white metal miniature stands 7mm tall. Use it to guide the way across the table. Supplied unpainted and without a base. Go HERE. Price 1.00GBP. 

SGF111 Small Dosojin 

A statue placed in a safe but prominent place to ward off evil spirits and demonic forces intent on harming the local people. This small stature is a one piece white metal miniature standing 10mm tall. Great for your table. Supplied unpainted and without a base. Go HERE. Price 0.40GBP. 

SGF112 Ornate Dosojin  

A decorated statue chest high to a man placed in temples and villages to push away demons and creatures of evil. This statue is a one piece white metal standing 13mm tall. Great for your table. Supplied unpainted and without a base. Go HERE. Price 0.75GBP. 

If you are interested in getting into the Sengoku collected sculpted by John Bell then consider the excellent Monster Hunter rules written by Steve Danes. 

SGB01 Sengoku Monster Hunter 

Sengoku Monster Hunter is a Tabletop Game for up to Four Player or Solo Play using the Sengoku range of 15mm miniatures. A game for one to four players set in medieval Japan where monsters and creatures of myth roam the jagged crags and hidden valleys of the Sacred Mountain. It is from the Sengoku setting and has merciless hunters who track down the monsters and slaughter them at every opportunity. Who you Play...Hunters are the players characters in the game. Each hunter has a profile of attributes, skills and special abilities that players can improve if their hunters are successful. There is a range of weapons, armour and equipment that hunters can acquire as well hired henchmen, spirit guides and others to assist them in their expeditions. The more powerful the hunters get…the greater challenges they can take on! 

Author: Steve Danes. A4 Format, Staple Bound (52 pages) Colour Covers, ISBN and Barcode. In Print and as a Digital Download. See it HERE or read more about it on our BLOG. 

At Alternative Armies we have two week long deals on two entire ranges every week. Each offer is 10% off every code in an entire collections on the website. Every pack, unit, box, book and so on in the collection is ten percent cheaper than its normal price for seven days. It changes every week at midnight GMT Sunday so it is well worth a look to see what we have on offer from our vast array of miniatures. These are well worth seeing every Monday. This week the offers are on are the Pudigrochumsberg Dogmen for Flintloque and Slaughterloo and also on the HOT 15mm Fantasy Range. 

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GBS

Cyber Bears new from Grinning Skull great for both 28mm and 15mm

“If you go down to the woods today you better go heavily armed”

Now released into the Grinning Skull range of weird and wonderful miniatures at Alternative Armies is a new pack of BEARS (Bio-Engineered Advanced Ranger Squad) which is great in 28mm scale or 15mm scale and can be had as singles as well as a full pack.  To see the whole Grinning Skull range go HERE or read on for more information about the madness in miniature from Will Grundy!

There are now over seventy different miniatures in the Grinning Skull range including Klorzid Plants, Killer Clowns, Oggum Pigmen, Zarglian Invaders as well as Baahl Goatmen and Chukk Birdmen too.  Now we have mad mutant teddy bears!

GRNP08 B.E.A.R.S (Bio-Engineered Advanced Ranger Squad)

BEARS (Bio-Engineered Advanced Ranger Squad) are mutant or genetic creations gone rogue and working for the highest bidder!  Great in any game system in 15mm or 28mm scale where teddies put the lead in. This pack gathers together single codes GRN60 to GRN65 for a total of six poses of white metal miniatures with ten miniatures mixed in the pack. Standing 20mm tall they are cute and mean with it!  Go HERE for pack or three packs with saving or single miniatures.

GRN60 BEAR Doc with Med Pack

GRN61 BEAR Paddy with Sword and Pistol

GRN62 BEAR Bill with Gun and Cigar

GRN63 BEAR Vince in armour arm raised

GRN64 BEAR Big Jim with Blast Pistol 

GRN65 BEAR Pyro the fire Mutant

Have you seen the Killer Pants in the range?

Klorzids are sentient vicious plants which are great in any game system in 15mm or 28mm scale where green things bite back.  See them HERE as a pack or singles. There are more new designs from Grinning Skull coming up next month and after that too so keep tuned to see what those will be.

Here at Alternative Armies we have two new week long deals on two entire ranges every week. Each offer is 10% off every code in two entire collections of our website.  Every pack, unit, box, book and so on in the collection is ten percent cheaper than its normal price for seven days.  It changes every week at midnight GMT Sunday so it is well worth a look to see what we have on offer from our vast choice.  Go HERE for the page and it is well worth seeing every Monday what the new deals are.  This week the offers are on are on the Christmas 15mm range and the 28mm Artillery range.

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Talking About Games two new videos on Flintloque Tactics melee and ranged

Now on his channel on Youtube two new videos for Flintloque presented by Talking About Games (TAG). If you missed previous videos then check out our Begin in Flintloque page to learn more. Using miniatures from 56594 Dogmen Witchlands Line the videos discuss those miniatures and also tactics in melee and for ranged fire in play. Abraham, who runs the channel, is a keen wargamer and though we provided the model to him to review his review is impartial and we have no control or influence upon it. Go HERE for our Beginning in Flintloque page to learn more or watch the videos in the blog article. Thanks! 

TAG channel are using their Dogmen Witchlands Line to play Flintloque expanding from the beginners box set 5024 Escape from the Dark Czar. We have a lot of resources and articles for you to read on our Free Downloads page. 

If you enjoyed the videos on the TAG channel then give them a thumbs up and a kindly comment as feedback is always welcome. 

Here at Alternative Armies we have two new week long deals on two entire ranges every week. Each offer is 10% off every code in two entire collections of our website. Every pack, unit, box, book and so on in the collection is ten percent cheaper than its normal price for seven days. It changes every week at midnight GMT Sunday so it is well worth a look to see what we have on offer from our vast choice. Go HERE for the page and it is well worth seeing every Monday what the new deals are. 

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Get into Flintloque Week with free Savant Zombie in every order!

Thus far in August we have had a Troll Week and a Typhon Week as well as a Laserburn Week all part of our summer fun plus of course the random draw on our Tabletop Gaming group. We have our last event week the month nears its end and this time it is for Flintloque! A unique skirmish blackpowder fantasy game with its own massive range of 28mm miniatures. Until midnight GMT Sunday 2nd September 2018 we have taken 10% off everything in our Flintloque Game System collection which includes the 5024 Escape the Dark Czar beginners box as well as our great value Shilling Starter Packs (full book, miniatures, bases, dice) and all the books for the game in print and as digital paid downloads. It also includes all of the 5024 miniatures such as the Survivors, the Savant Zombies and mounted Zombies on Undead Horses. Save ten percent on all of these and every Flintloque order placed will automatically gain a free random trooper Savant Zombie from 5024 worth 2.00GBP. Go HERE or read on for more. 

The World of Valon in the grip of the Mordredian Wars is a vast and deep game world. We have three theatres of war which are to be found in the Flintloque Game System collection. The first of these is the Central Urop theatre which sees the Dwarves of Krautia and the Dogmen of Ostaria fighting against the Condederation of Finklestein and this is detailed in 5028 Beir & Bones book and shilling starter pack. There is the Catalucian theatre where the Marshals of the Ferach Empire are trying to destroy the Army of Greate Britorcn led by the Duke of Wheeling-Turn and this is detailed in 5025 War in Catalucia and its shilling starter pack. Then there is the Witchlands theatre which sees the once enormous Grande Armee du Norde led by Mordred himself in an embattled retreat from the Undead hordes of the Dark Czar and this is told in 5025 Death in the Snow and its shilling starter pack as well as the beginners set 5024 Escape from the Dark Czar. Each of these theatres benefits from 5026 Grapeshotte which gives exotic weapons and troops as well as artillery for every army. Each of these books and sets tells you more about it on its own page. Go HERE. 

In the 5024 Escape the Dark Czar beginners box set you get a booklet plus bases and ten resin 28mm miniatures all for a superb price to get you begun in the game. This week we will be automatically putting a random trooper Savant Zombie (worth 2.00GBP) from that box set into your order as an automatic gift. You get it placing an order for anything Flintloque (except digital downloads, it must be a physical order) from any part of the range. A little treat. See these Zombies HERE. 

Get into Flintloque with new miniatures and more coming this autumn. Also check out the FREE DOWNLOADS page on our site for scenarios and more. 

There is another week long event going on which also ends Midnight GMT 2nd September 2018 with ten percent off the entire classic Tabletop 15mm Fantasy range which is great for any game system in that scale. Go HERE. This range contains value packs of Humans and Dwarves as well as packs of Undead, Lizardmen, Centaurs, warriors of Chaos and other creatures plus bigger monsters such as the Ent, the Rhinosaur and Arch Demon. If you place an order which contains a Tabletop code we will automatically put in a free MDA81 Human Barbarian worth 0.50GBP. A treat! 

Thanks for your time and attention and we will return with new releases in September including new weirdness from Grinning Skull Miniatures. 

GBS

Alternative Armies Tabletop Gaming Facebook Group random draw August 2018

Now on! Enter with a Comment! Win a 40.00GBP voucher to spend on anything Alternative Armies or The Ion Age makes and you can see on our websites.  Go HERE and join the group and look for the post with the image shown here.

Forty pounds to spend and we cover the postage worldwide too! Only open to group members and one entry per member. To enter the random draw you just need to comment on this very posting. Say anything you like from 'Hello' to your favourite game or miniature we make. You will then be assigned a number by group moderator Alissa Syme (which will be a numbered comment). 

The draw will take place at 9pm GMT Thursday 30th August. The draw will be filmed live with a random number generator and then the video will be posted to the group with the winners name tagged! No catch and an honest chance to win from a friendly company. Only one entry per member and may the fortune of random be with you! 

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GBS

Typhon 50mm Greek Myth Week at Alternative Armies with free Hades Shade in every order!

Alternative Armies has many different game systems and foremost among the ones which I adore is Typhon.  Typhon is the game of Greek Mythology in a Heroic Scale in a time of Heroes and Gods.  A skirmish game using larger miniatures with a setting steeped in history.

We have new molds of the Greek Hoplites and the Hades Shades and to celebrate we have a week long offer.  We have taken ten percent off the entire range including the book, the miniatures, the monsters and the game pack.

We are also automatically putting TY21 Hades Shade Hoplite (worth 5.00GBP and 48mm tall) into every order which contains a Typhon code.  Our treat!  This event ends midnight Sunday 26th August 2018.  Go HERE for the range or read on for more.

“With a grunt and a shake of his thick black hair that hung in ringlets about his shoulders, Aeschylus got to his feet. He had sat with his men for a whole night without moving for fear that the creature would hear them. Now that the sun had risen with a cool early glow in the sky it was time that he and his band of warriors donned their heavy armour and sallied forth into the face of danger.

They dressed in bundled cloth and the woollen tunics with which they had travelled. The wrapped burden of their bronze armour was carefully upon their shoulders and back. Having a sword at your side and with six other men at your flanks gave plenty of protection against the chance of violence in the streets of Argos and the wild beasts of the lands about Mount Pontinus, but it would not slay a true foe. Now some five miles from Argos were the sacred groves of plane trees that reached down to the clouded sea, and in this place so close to the world of the everyday dwelt a horrid monster.

While his Sacred Band readied them selves and stretched the dew from their muscled limbs, Aeschylus considered the fates of the day. He had travelled far from a small boy and a youth in the bustle of Corinth to the day when Poseidon had noticed him. As a javelin had whirred its way toward his heart Aeschylus had uttered a desperate plea to a God that he thought did not care. The javelin had faltered in a sudden and startling burst of rain and had missed him, from that day ten long years ago he had followed Poseidon and sworn to do damage to Hades wherever possible. Now, to steal the thunder of Zeus and his son; Aeschylus was in Lerna to kill the Hydra. With the help of Poseidon he was confident, was he, Aeschylus, not now a hero? Had not a youth from Sparta thrown himself at the feet of Aeschylus and begged to join his Sacred Band. That youth with only a bronze tipped spear and a shard of armour from a shattered greave tied to his arm was now entering a first combat, against a foe that might well kill them all. The youth brought Aeschylus his sacking wrapped armour, he took it and told the boy to pray and offer thanks to Poseidon for luck this day.

First from the sacking was the shield, given to Aeschylus by his father. At three feet in width it would protect him from all but the harshest blow, its wooden frame covered in burnished bronze that caught the sun. A round plate of metal with the head of Medusa carefully painted onto it, he had never been near a minion of the Gorgon never mind the Three Sisters themselves but even this image frightened some enemies. Raised to his left shoulder and held there by two straps on his wrist and forearm this Aegis shield would and had saved him already. Next came the helmet again in burnished bronze, in the Corinthian style with its long flanged plates to cover the bridge of the nose and the jaw. Aeschylus placed the helmet upon the top of his head, he would not lower it into place until the last seconds before the clash of blades, as he could neither hear nor see well with it fully in place. Greaves new from the metal smiths of Argos, with their fabric backings to keep the metal from Aeschylus’s shins, were taken from the sacking and snapped onto his legs, their weight not really felt. Then came the core of his expensive protection, the breast and back plate in hinged bronze with sculpted pectoral muscles, it was the prize he had fought hardest for. Lifting it over his head he clipped and tied it to his body and felt the weight of the bronze pushing down on him. Aeschylus longed for armour from Olympus, of the Gods, stronger and lighter than bronze; perhaps today he would earn it.

After a couple of intricately patterned rings were placed around his right wrist, he lifted the sword in its leather scabbard and looped it to his waist. This blade was iron and very sharp, it had cost much and would have to prove its worth also on this potentially bleakest of days. Now with the bronze tipped spear at his side the sacking was empty. It was folded and placed with all the baggage that would remain here as they went on. Aeschylus wondered if some other blessed stranger would find these piles of plunder and food and consider pledging themselves to the cause of a fickle immortal that looked on Men as mere amusements. Or then again that stranger might be sitting on the shores of the Saronic Sea near here on the coming weeks to hear from the chatter of woman the name of Aeschylus, the Hero that had felled the Hydra of Lerna.

The Hydra was waiting, waiting for victims to poison and consume. But this spawn of Typhon would rue when it clashed with Aeschylus, for he, unlike Hercules, had brought one Hoplite for each of its seven heads.”

Typhon is a special tabletop wargame that uses elements of roleplay and the Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece to bring life to an exciting range of ‘Heroic Scale’ miniatures. We designed this game to be flexible and fun while still challenging. Alternative Armies wanted a game that could be anything from a single combat between two mighty Heroes, or one man against a Monster, to a large skirmish. Typhon is a game that you can play with as few or as many miniatures as you wish.

The core Rules of Typhon are inspired by the distinctive Rules Engine of ‘Erin’, Alternative Armies’ Game of Celtic Mythology in 28mm scale, though the Typhon miniatures are in a much larger ‘Heroic Scale’. This means that any player of Erin will be able to ‘pick up’ and play Typhon very quickly and new players will find a streamlined and adaptable set of Rules for gaming where the man counts for more than his weapons. 

A game of Typhon can last from thirty minutes to three hours (for the largest linked adventure) depending on how many and how strong the characters are, so a game in an evening is easily possible. ‘Heroic Scale’ is the name we have given to the miniatures in Typhon, a scale large enough for each miniature to develop its own personality and appearance. This scale is 50mm. The miniatures are both Mortal and Shades (Undead) and can be personalised with anything from a different shield or weapon to more advanced modelling techniques.  Go HERE.

We have a folder of free files for Typhon which includes blank rosters, extra gods and powers, monsters and a full introduction to the game with many images and explaining the mechanics and how Heroes, Champions and Fighters act in play.  Download it from our website by clicking HERE.

If you have any questions about the game and its range we are happy to speak with you on our Facebook Group, our Yahoo Group or by email to sales@alternative-armies.com.

Also this week we have another offer running for the seven days on our 15mm scale range of buildings.  The HOB 15mm Fantasy Building range contains both Human and Orc buildings as singles and value sets too.  You can use them for fantasy or historical gaming in the case of the Human structures. There is 10% off every building this week.  Go HERE.

Lastly our other news for this week is all about a chance to win 40.00GBP of free products from us of your choice.  On Wednesday 22nd we will open a random draw event on our Alternative Armies Tabletop Gaming Group which every member of the group can enter.  If you are not a member then go along and ask to join and we will add you to the group. Look for the post with image above and follow the rules it states.  See you there!

Thanks for Reading,

GBS

By Bloody Fist and Broken Tusk a free Flintloque Scenario

As promised back in July we are delighted to present a free full scenario for Flintloque set in Catalucia and featuring the new Tuscani Elves and also Captain Sharke and his Rifleorcs.  It is a fun adventure and can be played solo.  Will you break through the Ferach line before time runs out?  Find out now!  Go HERE for all our free downloads or read on for the link and more information.  This is our last Flintloque news for August.

“I believe that we may indeed be lost sir.  That Dryadia traveller may well have given us a false lead on the pointy ears.”

Rifleorc Bok Arris was sweating in the afternoon sun but it was the risk of gaining the displeasure of the tall scarred officer who led them.  A murmur of agreement went round in a ripple among the marching Orcs.  They had been on the move for five hours and not once had Captain Sharke changed pace or taken his right hand off the hilt of the blade hanging at his waist as they walked along narrow valleys. Now though the officer stopped dead and turned back fixing Arris with a hard glare.

“You saying something Arris?  You want to repeat that louder so as I can hear it proper?  We ain’t killed nothing for two days and I could be starting again with that habit shortly.”

By Bloody Fist and Broken Tusk – Flintloque Scenario

A stand alone full scenario which features some famous characters.   It makes use of several free files and also the 5025 War in Catalucia game book.  This is a set piece scenario which can go very differently each time it is played.  You will need the four page insert for 5109 Sharkes Chosen for the character profiles it contains.  Also the Tuscani Wild Elf Uniformation insert for the game statistics it contains.  These are linked in the scenario three page PDF.  Will Sharke escape the ambush or fall to Wild Elf skill?  The scenario can also be expanded or played with two players. CLICK HERE to download it from our website hosting.

Here are some of the pictures taken during our testing of this new scenario.  Click on them on our blog to enlarge the pictures.  If you wish to see the miniatures used in the game as well as the book then visit our website.  The Flintloque Game System as well as the Army of Great Britorcn and Elves of Armorica.

If you are new to the World of Valon and the game of Flintloque then we can assist you with this.

Beginning in Flintloque 

This page on our website begins your journey with the best Fantasy Napoleonic tabletop game in the world and it is where you will find all the codes used in the scenarios in the Dark Czar arc as well as scenics and free items such as the scenarios and video reviews of Escape from the Dark Czar and Death in the Snow by the Talking About Gaming independent channel.  Go HERE.

I want to thank everyone for their kind words and orders during Troll Week at Alternative Armies (ends midnight Sunday 19th GMT until then you get a free Trolka in every order and a saving on all our Trolls) and for the feedback on Andy Jefcoate's series of adventures in the Witchlands with his Flintloque collection. 

Thanks for Reading,

GBS