This blog is about my hobby: collecting and painting miniatures (mainly fantasy) and playing epic Warhammer battles (mainly 3rd edition). The blog's name is a contraction of Old Metal (lead miniatures referring to Oldhammer) and the famous song 'Metal Militia' from Metallica (yes, I'm a great fan of Metal music).
These are the monsters from the second Northgard extension 'Wilderness'. They are incorporated in the same deck as the creatures from the basic game but are more powerful, the deadliest being the Wyvern.
This extension also comes with new extra tiles.
These are the creatures populating Northgard and that the clans may encounter while exploring the map. Their behaviour depend on the creature. Bears are attracted by constructions. Wolves are attracted by resources. Draugr and Fallen Valkyries are attracted by human beings.
These are included in the base board game. The reason why they are painted differently (lighter or heavier tone) is to distinguish them in case several of that type of creature are on the map at the same time. When discovered, each creature is representend by a card.
I've painted the Northgard Warchiefs (from the so called boardgame extension). They were quite fun to paint.
Northgard is a PC game released in 2017. The player leads a viking clan which has landed on a new continent (Northgard). The player's clan competes with other viking clans for domination over this new continent. There are several ways of winning the game: reaching a certain level of fame (in combination with a certain number of possessed territories within the map + building a king's altar), reaching a certain level of lore (+ building a special monument), capturing Yggdrasil (the world tree), reaching a certain level of commercial exchanges, reforging Odin's sword, etc.
