The Irish, Strathclyde Welsh and Scottish Factions (4pt Saga Warbands)
Note 1: It probably makes more sense if you read Saga in 6mm – Part 1 before you read this.
Note 2: All miniatures are from Baccus miniatures, unless indicated otherwise, and the codes relates to their catalogue.
Irish
The Irish have the option to field a warrior unit of war dogs and who could honestly resist that? I needed to find some 6mm dogs. Baccus does not do any dogs but I did not need to get to any extreme measures as Perfect Six do some nice ones (and since I ordered my dogs they now also do wolves that could represent even more terrifying dogs – mine were border collies painted grey rather than the less intimidating Lassie look) so I ordered enough dogs to do 8 No. bases with 5 dogs and a dog handler on each. I used AMO01 Moorish infantry from the “Rome and Enemies range” for the dog handlers. These were leftovers from another project and I felt that the movement in these skirmish type figures were suitable to act as “leaders of the pack”. The war dogs may be more legend than reality but I think they add flair to the game (I have provided an interesting link below to an article about war dogs amongst the early Irish).
For the Hearthguard (Fianna) I used the ALR04 Lanciarii (from the Late Roman Range) to represent these Javelin armed units. For the Warrior units and the Warlord I used the EMV02 – Unarmoured Spearmen (vikings!).
Strathclyde Welsh
For the Strathclyde Welsh I decided to make all units mounted and used AG003-Gothic Heavy Cavalry for the Warlord and Hearthguard (Teulu) and AG004-Gothic Medium Cavalry for the Warriors. Yes, I know, they are supposed to be ponies – these are just very big ones!
Scots
For the Scots I used one code of figures (AG001-Gothic infantry) for the 16 bases of Warriors (Soer-Chele) and the 8 bases of Hearthguard (Thanes). For the warlord base I used a leftover AG003 – Gothic Heavy Cavalry figure as well as one from the Norman or Viking Leaders pack in front of the two rows of infantry.
In summary:
| Unit | Faction | Pts | Type | Miniatures per Base |
| Warlord | Irish | 0 | Warlord | 10 |
| 4 Fianna (Hearthguards w. Javelin) | Irish | 1 | Hearthguard | 9 |
| 4 Fianna (Hearthguards w. Javelin) | Irish | 1 | Hearthguard | 9 |
| 8 Bonnachts (Warriors) | Irish | 1 | Warrior | 8 |
| 8 Dog handler with 5 dogs (Warriors). | Irish | 1 | Warrior | 6 |
| Warlord (Mounted) | S Welsh | 0 | Warlord | 5 |
| 4 Mounted Teulu (Hearthguards) | S Welsh | 1 | Hearthguard | 4 |
| 4 Mounted Teulu (Hearthguards) | S Welsh | 1 | Hearthguard | 4 |
| 8 Mounted Warriors | S Welsh | 1 | Warrior | 3 |
| 8 Mounted Warriors | S Welsh | 1 | Warrior | 3 |
| Warlord | Scots | 0 | Warlord | 10 |
| 4 Thanes (Hearthguard) | Scots | 1 | Hearthguard | 9 |
| 4 Thanes (Hearthguard) | Scots | 1 | Hearthguard | 9 |
| 8 Soer-Chele (Warriors) | Scots | 1 | Warrior | 8 |
| 8 Soer-Chele (Warriors) | Scots | 1 | Warrior | 8 |
Next time we will ha a look at another 3 factions.
All the best.
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