A set of six should be plenty for a warband since 6 point armies are the norm and each unit is normally 1 point.

SAGA has been one of the games that has held my focus for the last few years and a lot of my painting and building has been centered around the game. I always like to make things better and improve if I can the look or play of the game. I never like game tables littered with markers, chits, or anything that takes away from the visual and SAGA is very good in this respect only requiring “fatigue markers” when a unit is tired out for one reason or another. I have seen all sorts of things used as fatigue markers, the original game produced markers in the form of shields, as well as coins, beads, small rocks, etc… Our group started long ago to use small plastic “Skull” beads as they looked cool. I think the first skulls where brought in by me after my buddy Stevie G bought me a pack at a convention. Another member of the group started making little vignette stands that used dice as part of the vignette to show the “fatigue” level. Rick Abbo then began to make some that used spear shafts in the vignette allowing the Skull bead to be slid on, they looked cool!

Well I finally got around to making my own and once again they are highly customized. This first set is based on wounded / dead figures that could be Vikings, Danes, Saxons, etc.….(sure they really work with any warband) I’ve added a hand cut steel rod for a spear to each one by drilling a hole in the figure to make them look wounded and hold the “skulls”. I have also added extra pieces from the “bits” box, real and “epoxy” rocks to give more life and character to the stands. If I can find the right wounded/dead figures, I plan to do this type of “Fatigue” stand for other factions as well.

The spear a just long enough to hold three fatigue marker skulls since the new SAGA 2 rules treat 3 fatigues as exhausted and excess fatigue is ignored. I like this since before you had to make the spears longer to get more markers on and looked not quite right.

This figure got a hand made arrow of piano wire and epoxy feathers to show a wound. The “steel” spear was also added giving the effect that he’s trying to stand and get to safety.

This is the same figure as the standing figure above but slightly re-sculpted to a lying down version. I sculpted some big rocks from two part epoxy in order to prop the figure up a bit and a better viewing angle.

A view of the additional sculpted rocks.

The fresh blood look is a TAMIYA color “clear red” over regular Vallejo red. It has to be applied after dull coating.

I put an ax in his hands to create that finial moment as a Viking dies when its so important to die in battle clutching a weapon to insure entry into Valhalla!

I love this one! I added some extra items, the shield with embedded ax to further the appearance of an on going desperate struggle!