How long have I wanted to use that line from the film The Sixth Sense in a post title !
Since starting to play Field of Glory at the beginning of
the year I have been slowly building a collection the various gaming accessories
required such as measuring sticks, dice, scenery and
markers. It was at this juncture that I decided I needed
to develop a system to illustrate cohesion of units. Thankfully, the Field
of Glory rules go to the trouble of explaining the different ways of
illustrating cohesion with helpful pictures. The three options
they suggest are; offsetting and turning bases to show the level
of cohesion, also the counter method placing coloured counters
down next to the relevant battle group. The third and preferred
option in my case is to paint up dead figure markers. For these guys
Donningtion came up trumps with their wonderful collection of causality
markers which I have been dutifully painting up in between battle groups.
Furthermore Seb at the CLWC contributed to my body count by gifting me an
selection of Celts and Spanish casualties by Xyston.
The Donnington Figures were mounted on some disk bases with
their edges painted green, red or black to indicate the cohesion
level a bit of flock was added after as wash with Paines gray oils to define
the lowlights. I am hopeful that these dead guys will add
to the look for the look of the table along with simply demonstrating
to me the level of catastrophe I have managed to get my army in to!
Alternately, I went to all the trouble of painting up
these dead guys so I could compose a blog post entitled I See Dead People!
