Age of Fantasy: Warhammer with the kid

My kid loves miniatures, and over the last couple of years, he's gotten a lot of 40k miniatures. He's also picked up some board games just for the miniatures inside. I always make sure to offer the family gift suggestions for birthdays and Christmas.

There are still so many more miniatures to get, and I’ve been buying second-hand stuff for him. For his last birthday, he wanted Orcs, Goblins, and Lizardmen.

I love it! I prefer fantasy over sci-fi. Before our recent move, I sold most of my collection—even the painted stuff. I only kept generic fantasy models and my finished painted miniatures. Everything else is gone.

We're going to play One Page Rules, for the simplicity (and because it's free). We looked through the miniatures he got for his birthday and made a 500-point list. I'm turning some of the Normans I bought for the Viking Mega Game into a Bretonnian force. I don’t plan on spending any money, so I’ll just use what I have in my bit box.

The plan is to paint our two 500-point forces, and then expand them to 750 and later 1000 points—to play with fully painted armies.

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The Orcs

Here’s the list we made for the kid: 20 orc infantry, 10 bowmen, 5 black orcs, and a boss on a boar (fighting alongside the black orcs). We've built the appropriate command group miniatures where needed.

Not much conversion going on here. The boss has a plastic arm, since the original was missing—attached with greenstuff and super glue. One banner bearer has a big orc warrior bit (a huge cow skull) added to the otherwise plain metal banner with heads—also attached with greenstuff and glue.

Other than that, the miniatures are standard.

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The Bretonnians

My list is: 5 knights errant, 20 men-at-arms, a hero knight, and 10 bowmen. I still need to build the bowmen.

The knights are straight-up Normans with no real conversions. I found a flag in the bit box for the banner bearer. The champion got a cape to stand out, and the musician has a horn from a Chaos Marauder.

The men-at-arms are not converted. The command group has a hornblower (a Viking horn bit), a champion with a cape and a Knights of the White Wolf hammer. The banner is made using a High Elf bit on a pike.

The hero is a knight with an added cape and a feather in his helmet. He also has a flag on the lance. All heroes will have capes and feathers. Champions will just have capes. It's an easy way to differentiate the miniatures.