Fantasy Skirmish: Dwarf Heavy Infantry

The goal throughout 2025, for my fantasy skirmish miniatures, at least, is to get my dwarf army finished up and ready for multiple different games, especially Kings of War, Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game, and Oathmark, and to have cool individual models that would work well as NPCs or skirmishers for smaller games like Mordheim, Five Leagues from the Borderlands, and Frostgrave.

These Heavy Dwarf Infantry models from Northstar Miniature’s Oathmark range are fantastic, they capture the classic feel of fantasy dwarfs without breaking the bank. There’s a lot of detail in these models, and considering you can get 30 of these duders for less than $40 US, you really start to wonder why people are spending so much money on monopose models from the industry powerhouse.

I also took the time to touch up a medium infantry archer, who will probably be a leader of a skirmish unit, as I want to use light infantry for the dwarf archer regiments that I’m building.

I’m also trying to spend my hobby money on smaller companies’ products, since the gaming ecosphere has been pretty much consumed by one company. Don’t get me wrong, I love that company’s products, but they’ll be fine if I spend less with them and help support these smaller games!

MESBG: Boromir

When I was a kid I thought Boromir was the biggest idiot in The Lord of the Rings. Then, the Ralph Bakshi animated movie came out when I was 8, and I was convinced that I was right that entire time the second he walked on screen.

That helmet. That beard. His stupid, hairy, stupidness. But, even though I had read the books during an ill-advised flirtation with viral bronchitis, I wasn’t ready for the bad-assery that Bakshi unleashed with Boromir’s death scene!

He really took a liking to those arrows! Flash forward a few decades, and I was a solid Boromir fan. And then Sean Bean Sean Beaned his way into our collective hearts with a solid performance as Gondor’s favorite-not-perfect-son… what more could we ask for? Miniatures? DID SOMEONE SAY MINIATURES?

Games Workshop blundered its way into the Lord of the Rings license and somehow managed a hat trick that kept in it business long enough to become the champion of miniature game design and fair pricing that we know today! But I didn’t care at the time, being a new dad and too busy painting a billion points of Tau.

But now? Now I’m playing catch-up. And I’m going to do it with the original Fellowship figures, which are in no way showing their age. Actually, I jest. They’re definitely showing their age, but they’re still pretty sweet!

Somehow the little dude even looks like my favorite walking quiver!

I really wish there was another miniature of Boromir in this costume, there are some fantastic alt sculpts of the rest of the Fellowship out there, but Boromir Arrowshirt only got enough screen time to warrant this one figure. And, well, a Captain of Gondor fig, too, but I want this costume!

Here he is with the rest of the painted figs in the Fellowship:

Hopefully, Gimli will get that plane landed before the Balrog comes!