15mm Vikings

Just over a year ago I decided I would like to collect Vikings, Saxons and Normans in 15mm for use mainly with the 'Hail Caesar' rules. The main make of figures I decided to collect was 'Forged in Battle' as I really enjoyed painting up lots of their Greeks and Persians. Having acquired boxed army sets of the three forces I have also gradually been adding extra troops and unit command figures from Forged in Battle and a few other companies such as Baudea and Splintered Light. 

So far I have mainly concentrated on my Vikings although I have painted a few units of Anglo-Saxons/Anglo Danish. Then Dan Mersey released his Wiglaf Early Saxons so, being a wargames butterfly, a few units of those were also painted. Recently I have got back to the Vikings and below is a photo of my latest unit just completed today. 

You can possibly just see that there are three bases each of eight figures to a standard unit. This basing system I have borrowed is that from the Art de L'Guerre rules and it seems to be a sensible development of the old DBA style basing. These are all Forged in Battle figures and I have based them like this so that I can easily adapt my unit size or put a unit into column. 

The photo below shows units of Vikings with 2, 3 and 4 bases per unit to show how this works. This basing system will also allow me to use the same figures in a range of rules from 'To the Strongest' to 'Fantastic Battles'.  

Here are a few photo's of my Viking force to date, over 160 figures painted so far. 

I have really enjoyed painting these Vikings but still have over 100 to do. However, I do keep getting side-tracked and have been painting all sorts of other stuff in between. Hopefully it will not be too long before I can get a game in with these brave little Vikings. I will be using army lists derived from the Hail Caesar 'Shieldwall' supplement but with a few alterations based on my own ideas of what warfare in this era would be like.