Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

A warm-up game vs Mark, then two competition games at TOIL vs Matt and David. Not all four on a weekend, becasue of a drop out on day two. So, these are a condensed report of Arthur, King of the Britons and his quest to avoid the Wooden Spoon. My list. Two units of decent cavalry, a lot of stodge amd a few skirmishers. Yes, I am running two allied generals. Game 1 vs Mark's Vikings A Wednesday warm-up, you were wondering where my last Wednesday report was? Well, here it is! Over a thousand 10/12mm figures on table, Gawain is on the left, Lancelot in the middle with his cavalry in reserve, and Arthur on the right. This is turn two, I was pushing my Arthur's cavalry and light horse right to distract Mark's line, supported by an infantry block .Lancelot advances, while on the left Gwain moves to cover the gap left. Mark and I both ahve 11 units, but mine are nearly all 8s, whereas his while three are way harder, are all sixes. Gawain forms up his line in expectation of Vikin...

A while back, a friend had to deal with the estate of a wargamming collegue. Amongst the figures were a selection of 10mm Pendraken Sudan figures, mostly Anglo-Egyptian, some painted, some not. As soon as I posted the previous post, I realised that I really should have my units at the same strength in bases as those I inherited, so extra bases done. Egyptian Cavalry Looking on Still waiting Extra Egyptians and Sudenese units Gets me four more strength units. Now need to decide how many figures and bases for the Mahdists Advancing, covered by fire My view Ready to go   I rebased the originals and added some in later uniforms for the reconquest period. There are more to come, firstly to take my figures up to five base units. The batch I painted Top down on the full patrol Sudenese infantry in Egyptian service Egyptian cavalry   Egyptian foot in campaign dress       The bits I rebased, two units of British ...