Swine of Broḡa
Rob LaneWe've got a fantastic battle host for you this beautiful June, Miercenaries - the Swine of Broḡa, charging into battle with boar spear and razor mane and a lot of attitude!
Sculpted mostly by Rafael Callegari - but with shoutouts for Ivan Flaman and Bob Plociennik - the East Anglians of Eofora feature eight boar-men, eight humans and five boars!
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Swine of Broḡa
The Anglecynn, and the Jutes and the Sæxna, and the Norse, shape-shifters as they are, take the form of many natural beings, and in many different ways; some are born as half-humans, some transform over time and retain their intelligence; others devolve into full beast. For the Eofora, being born a wereofor is a sign of blood strength, of tradition and honour, of the gods themselves favouring your family.
The adult wereofor - boar-men and women, tough and strong, and very hard to kill - take in such babes, rearing them in their enclaves, teaching them their ways, but also ensuring they realise their roots are also human. This is why Broḡa is amongst the greatest of Anglecynn warriors, honoured by human and boar-man alike, ferocious in battle but of keen intelligence and worthy of trust. Together with his boar-men, great boars and young warriors, the Anglecynn of Eofora are a powerful foe.
This month's battle host contains:
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Broḡa, Wereofor Theḡn
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Wælcyrḡe Æthelglyth, Theḡn of Mierce [Pin Up]*
- Youths of Stæford, Ḡeoguth Unit (7x warriors)
- Grunters of Rendlæs, Wereofor Unit (7x warriors)
- Snorters of Ḡerne, Frēofor Unit (5x warriors)
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The commander of the Swine of Broḡa (pronounced ‘swyn of bro-ya’) is of course Broḡa himself, a powerful wereofor from the fens and forests of Eofora. Armed with boar-spear, tusks, teeth, hooves and sheer strength, Broḡa is a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield.
Broḡa's host includes the Youths of Stæford, the beardless humans known as the ḡeoguth (pronounced ‘ye-guth’), a word that would in time mutate to our modern English ‘youth’.
Keen fighters all, the ḡeoguth may not be as tough as the wereofor but they can certainly keep their foes busy with spear-hedge and shieldwall. While the battle host includes the ḡeoguth of Eofora - featuring boar tusks on their shields - you can purchase the ḡeoguth of Mierce, Dēra and Beornica separately, with wolf tails, deer antlers and bear paws on their shields respectively.
With each one of those units you also get the shields without any decoration, so you can customise them how you'd like!
The real meat of this month's battle host though are the Grunters of Rendlæs, a veritable horde of boar-men - all featuring boar-spears, gutplates, various religious symbols and a lot of bad breath!
With banner bearer and herald, standing on 60mm bases, these guys form seven meaty warriors to crash into the enemy battle line while they're trying to deal with the ḡeoguth and the frēofor!
Speaking of which, you also get five very nasty great boars on 70x40mm bases called the Snorters of Ḡerne this month. These guys are ferocious warriors and very difficult to kill, and are a perfect addition to any host of the Anglecynn that include the warriors of Eofora!
Who Are the Anglecynn?
The Anglecynn are the Angles from southern Denmark that settled the north and east of Britain at the tail-end of the Roman Empire, displacing the Romano-British and ethnic Britons into the mountain regions, and who eventually gave their name to their lands - Angle-land, or England as it is now known. The Angles were the dominant human force in central, northern and eastern Britain and we speak a modified version of their language today.
The Anglecynn are related to the Jutes and the Seaxna - who settled the south of modern-day England - and the greatest merchants and traders of the age, the Friesians. The Angles, Jutes, Seaxna and Friesians are all Germanic tribes originating from the north-west of continental Europe, civilised, cultured people in tune with nature and used to farming the land and livestock, but all of them have a warrior culture, a way of thinking that meant their tribe and their family was all that mattered.
Beset by savage Norse raiders along their coasts, the constant thorn-pricks of the Brythoniaid, the Ysians and the Albainn, not to mention the Érainn to the west and the Fomoraic from the seas to the east, and warring intermittently between themselves, the Anglecynn are redoubtable warriors with powerful allies in the form of the wild creatures both around them and within them. For, like all of the Germanic peoples, the Anglecynn are shape-shifters who, depending on their tribe, change their form into wolves (Mierce), bears (Beornica), boars (Eofora) or deer (Dēra). Some of these shape-shifters change permanently, over time; others can switch back and forth at will, or under duress, and some choose what they wish to become as they grow older. Whatever form they take, these shape-changers are powerful creatures, animalistic and powerful, and many use weapons and armour as well as or better than their human cousins.
East Anglia, as it is now known, was the first of the British lands to be settled by the Angles at the end of the Roman Empire. The Eoforas, the boar-people, were invited by the Romano-British to defend their lands from the invaders - but they become invaders themselves, once they understood just how weak the Britons were and remembered that their lands were nowhere near as fertile as Bryten.
Thus was born the kingdom of Eofora, still ruled today by the descendants of the first Kings of the Eoforas, and still cunning and strong, for the Christian disease that has spread to the other tribes of their people is both resisted... and welcomed. Ever resourceful, the pagan wereofor of Eofora live alongside its Christians, King Ænna being Christian when he needs to be and pagan when he wishes to be.
You can learn more about the Anglecynn on the Mierce Miniatures webstore and in the Lands of Darkness kindred guide!
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This month's Pin Up is Wælcyrḡe Æthelglyth, Theḡn of Mierce! That first word is the Angle equivalent of valkyrie, pronounced ‘WAL-ker-ye’.
She has two weapon options too - two swords, or axe and sword!
The Month of July
We're getting ahead of ourselves, as mentioned in previous Penda's Blogs, and I have great pleasure in telling you that next month's host is almost sculpted. This means I can get everything ready for you on the 2nd of each month (as the 1st is reserved for taking the payment subscriptions). An added benefit is the ability to give you better sneak peeks for the next month, too!
So, next month is a fantastic horde of Albainn oghur and moroghur; they look absolutely superb, and I can't wait to show them to you!
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