Lohwand: Dunland and the Exiles, the Mapping Continues...

 

The mapping continues...

Dunland lies in the mountains to the North of the Tharkallan heartland provinces. Home to the Dunlending hill tribes that have sometimes been a thorn in the side of Tharkalla. The forested, broken hills atop the Nantgali Plateau have thus far offered safe refuge from Tharkalla's wrath. The cliffs of Nantgali are passable to large forces in only a few places that are easily defensible; in contrast, Dunland raiders know many secret ways that enable them to run rings around there less nimble foe.

Each tribal area represents the lands of one of the great clans, up to a dozen lesser clans, and has a walled town as its capital. Kerk is the seat of the current King of Dunland.

The Exiles are descendants of the Nemedians who fled the Tharkallan invasion of their country sixty years ago. Their lands used to belong to Dunlendings, but they drove out the clan that formerly occupied Wintertop and have held off all attempts to retake it ever since. They are now so entrenched that not even the Tharkallan army could pry them loose, and it has tried several times!

To the west of Dunland lies Dorastor and the Bossonian Marches. I've also been mapmaking there...

Lohwand: Dol Amroth Banners

 

Print and Paint

I wasn't satisfied with my first design so I had another go...

Edit:

Realized that attempting to make these an watch Digging For Britain re-runs was a bad idea! The ships on the square (foot) banners should be sailing towards the banner pole. Here is the fixed version:

Dol Amroth banners (fixed)

Lohwand: Swan Knights of Dol Amroth

 

Swan Knight of Dol Amroth

Per LOTR fame, repurposed as some kind of "Knights of Malta" proxies for my Lohwand campaign. Meaning they've got an island, with a fortress, and galleys with which they engage the "heathen" ... or the pirates, at least.

60mm HYW knight from XForce, with a head from Tradition of London (which sells lots of nominally 54mm bits).

The banner I cobbled together in PowerPoint - the "poor man's graphics program". 

I borrowed the graphics from the wappenwiki.org Roll of Arms page:

http://wappenwiki.org/index.php/Roll_of_Arms

The ship is borrowed from the Earl of Caithness:

http://wappenwiki.org/index.php?title=Grand_Armorial_%C3%A9questre_de_la_Toison_d%27or_Folio_131

The waves are from the Staple of Calais:

http://wappenwiki.org/index.php?title=Edward_IV_Roll

I cropped and edited them using the tools in Paint, saved as a jpg and pasted into PowerPoint. In PP I had already used the drawing tools to make a rectangle and a triangle inside it (3" x 1" actually size IIRC). I then copied and flipped them to get the back face. I allowed a bit in between for the banner pole - only about .15" IIRC which turned out a bit skimpy. 

As I had room I made four copies and used the picture tools to make some various grey-scaled versions. This b/c I currently only have a B&W printer and didn't want the prints coming out too black. I thought the blue would be pitch black but as it turned out it is potentially viable as well. 

The plan is to attempt to "paint within the lines" in the manner of Pete's Flags - sample attached. (Jasper Tudor)

Pete's Flags - Superb!

Currently waiting for the glue to dry. Used a cheap craft white glue from Michaels. The reason for the rectangle is to allow one to line up the two halves. The final flag will be trimmed to the swallow tail outlined by the triangle. 

I used an Xacto knife handle to get the fluttering effect in the flag.

Still have to decide what shade of blue to use for the knights. I've been experimenting with Vallejo paint triads posted on Google drive by some guy:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxBp_BdjWzPKLU00Z1MyazZkR3M?usp=sharing

(Apologies to the author of those files, but I can't remember his name.)

Howard

Lohwand: Armatura, ver 6

 

Made some changes, 

including getting the version correct!

Lohwand: Armatura, ver 5.0

 

Here is the latest iteration of my Armatura rules, version 5.0, though as you can see I need to do some more edits. (I got confused as to how many versions I had made and discarded.) Some changes to both front and back. 

For one thing, I changed the rules for Army Morale. I realised I was referencing rules that were not on the sheet, which kind of defeated the "all-the-rules-on-the-cheat-sheet" objective. It possibly fails that in other ways; I need to vet it again to be sure.

I also changed a couple of the Command Actions, and have gone through and made sure that I used the same format for abbreviations throughout.

The morale test has changed as I finally realized that it didn't need to be an opposed test, and was probably better that it wasn't. I've tried to add a mechanism to allow the Saxon Fryd to pursue fleeing (retiring) Normans out of their formation. Not sure yet if it works.

And I'm thinking that Staff Slings probably should only have a ROF of 1.

Under Armatura each unit, be it a cohort, squadron or warband, has three primary traits: Virtis, Disciplina and Labor. Virtis is its combat ability, Disciplina represents discipline and morale, and Labor is the unit's engineering skill. A unit may also be designated as having an Exceptional Leader. 

There is assumed to be an overall commander, with sub-commanders in charge of left and right wings, and any reserve. Commanders have another trait called the Tactics Rating. (I tried to find the latin translation. I thought it would be "Tactica" but it seems not to be the case. Or maybe my Google-Fu is weak!) This rating determines the number of cards in their hand. It is assumed all officers have the rating, but it is only determined when relevant. i.e. if a centurion were promoted to command a detachment.

I need to sort out the "Well Led" and "Exceptional Leader" designations b/c I notice they are overlapping somewhat. 

Lohwand: Nemedia Province, Tharkalla - Part 2

Nemedia Province

Tharkallan Empire

Here are the tentative population densities for the Nemedian estates for my proposed fief management system. The density ratings are: S - Sparse (x1/2),  T - Typical (x1), D - Dense (x3), and VD - Very Dense (x5). The modifiers are applied to the base rolls for each estate. The final values will provide a base that will change yearly as the campaign progresses, much as a fief does in the Pendragon rpg, from Chaosium.

Lohwand: Nemedia Province, Tharkalla - Part 1

 

Drawn in PowerPoint

Here is a screen cap of the Tharkallan Province of Nemedia, the first to be detailed in any sort of way. The plan is to generate Fief information for each of the Prefectures and Estates shown, plus all the cities and towns. I already have the names for all those locations, and just need use the fief generation system to flesh them out a bit. This is largely based on the Pendragon rpg, which has a fief system as a way of running a multi-generational campaign. I started with that (I own several editions of the game) and have added some of my own stuff. Here is my first draft:

Once I've had a chance to give it a go, I'll post the results.