Midgard Heroic Battles is most definitely a ‘battle’ rather than ‘skirmish’ game, but you may not need as many figures as you might expect. Because the game is scaleable, you can play with quite small units or very large ones depending on how many figures and how much table space you have available.
Midgard forces are organised into Heroes and Units, paid for with a traditional ‘points’ system. The minimum force size is around 300 points, which will give you around 10 Units and 3-4 Heroes.
Obviously, the points value of Heroes and Units depends on their quality, but as a rough rule of thumb, skirmishers are around 10 points a unit, regular troops 20 points and elite units 30 points or more. Heroes range between 10 and 40 points with additional traits and abilities adding to their cost.
The two 15/18mm armies that we have used for our Degsastan 603 game are good examples of starter 300-point forces. All the units here are on 8 x 4 cm bases. Warrior units are approximately 10 miniatures to a base, Skirmishers 6 to a base and Horsemen (Light Riders) 5 to a base, which gives a total of around 100 minis for the Dal Riadan army and about 90 for the Northumbrians.
These two 15mm armies require a playing area of around 3 x 4′ (91 x 122 cm).
Forces can be much larger than this, although the vast majority of our games have been between 300 and 400 points.
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