Pride of Lions Overview

Pride of Lions is a mass-combat fantasy game written by Doc McBride and published by Splintered Light Miniatures. A few of us picked up the rules at Historicon, but have just recently started to dig in to it.

It can be played at any scale, although it was designed to be played at 15mm (although I have a second army in the works at 10mm). There are no set army lists - the rules just give your the matrix of points costs and you can design you army based on whatever figures you own, or want to own!

Franks Dark Elves

Some rag tag humans being pulled a long for the ride

At 15mm, we're playing with a frontage of 120x40mm, which fits figures based for DBA and HotT perfectly, allowing folks to use collections they already have. The human army used in the pictures below was originally a FoG Lowlands army from Essex!

Don't put your hand on top of them!

The dark elves emerge over the hills

The cavalry clashed on the flanks and are run down by the Dark Elf riders

The basic core of the game is when units fight, whoever rolls the highest, wins. Based on how much you won the die roll by, you consult a chart to see what happens. Generally, winning by a 9+ or more will destroy the opposing unit, whereas lower margins have effects from push-back to lowering morale, or maybe removing a stand or two.

The game uses dice from a D4 to a D24. You purchase units based on whatever dice value you want them to start at, and it will change over the course of the game. As their morale lowers, so does their die level, but it can also increase as morale goes up. Supporting units, flank attacks, charges, magic spells, etc, can all raise or lower the die level as well.

The lines clash the middle of the board

Pride of Lions is a great alternative to the usual mass fantasy suspects, and something that can most likely be played with figures you already have lying around. Expect to see some more posts from this hidden gem in the future!

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More Skavens

More skavens for Pride of Lions. This is more than enough characters than I will ever need. Still need to work on more units, but I'm out of bases. And rats. While the rats are great, Splintered Light doesn't really package them for Pride of Lions, so buying a "pack" doesn't even give enough for one unit. I currently have five units ready (1 Slinger, 2 Clanrats, 2 Rat Ogres). Hopefully that will be enough to get a feel for the game.

This is my company commander. Three rats on a 40mm base.

These guys are random heroes. Cheap, disposable, raises a units dice level by one.

Grey seers, or spell casters. Not that I needed four, but Splintered Light gives me one for each Rat Ogre I buy..so...

Two rats on a 25mm base. For my 2ic. The one in the back is the same figure as the heroes above. The one in the front will be used for my Assassins (unit champions), but painted in black on a single 20mm square base. 

Tomorrow my Dropzone Commander stuff arrives, so I'll get some pictures of that up soon. Hopefully I can do a full unboxing with pictures. Sadly, only my PHR will arrive, so until the UCM ships out, I won't be able to get any battle reports up. That's fine though, cause I have lots of projects on the side!

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Pride of Lions Ratmen Army

Started work on my Pride of Lions Ratmen army. The figures are all Splintered Light. Just discovered these guys last week at Historicon and the figures are awesome. Just a quick basecoat and dip paintjob for them, and some hastily made movement trays from balsa. This is barely a start on a Pride of Lions army. Working on some characters next while I await bases to do more units.

Army Shot!

Some Rat Ogres

Slingers

More Slingers

Ratmen

More Ratmen

Scale next to a GW Skaven Clanrat

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