The Free Legion Fraternity

Before I specialised into the Arabic dogs of war, I grouped my units rather vaguely into the Free Legion, a name I stole (if I remember correctly) from the name of a unit in one of Terry Brook's Shanara novels. 

The feel and ethos of the legion I think of as being less like the standard GW Tilean background and more like one of the Conan stories I read - cut-throat, motley and dashing.  Warriors brought together by lawlessness and a love for money and adventure.  Bound to each other by a crude and ferocious bond to each other.  Swashbuckling; deadly and the match for the best trained armies in the Warhammer World.

Obviously the choices that GW offer are fairly limited, but the open-ness of the background allows the imagination to run riot in theming the dogs army.  I liked to tackle each unit differently, with the only really unifying aspect is the banner colours: with thier laurel symbol. 

I always enjoy taking dogs to tournaments, partly because of the challenge to do well with one of the weaker lists.  There's no army that is as negelcted by GW as the dogs of war - and it may be because of this, or because of the vaguely uncompetative army list - that means there's always a great cameraderie between dogs players.  And i think people always like to see dogs armies, because they often look different to the usual selections.

And yes, before you ask - of course The Free Legion were at Bohsenfels!