Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Cliff and I met up for a (delayed) game. After some conversation about what to play, and two long lists, Cliff noted I had ancient galleys, so, galleys it was... For the first time since 2018, I broke out Poseidon's Warriors. All my figures are Tumbling Dice , and the rules are from Osprey . The two fleets: Rome (Me) Admiral in a Sextus 3 x 3 Slow Quinquirmarines 1 x 3 Slow Quinquirmarine with Corvus 5 x Slow Triremes Carthage (Cliff) Admiral in a Sextus 1 x 3 Slow Quadquirmariness with elite rowers (extra 1" move) 3 x 3 Fast Quinquirmariness 5 x Slow Triremes with elite Marines We went for straight up scraps, as it was Cliff's first time with the rules and my first time out with them in 8 years! Game 1 : Carthage tries to go wide t envelop Rome. Rome tries to punch through the centre (Corvus armed Quins in the middle move extra slowly, so speed is not my ally). Roman Tris swing right to try and counter the out flanking. Carthage keeps going wide, while fleets close to ...

Footsore recently released this rather fun game, based around 28mm skirmish fighting in ancient Greece. Tried it at Campaign, then got a set for my birthday from Manny and Rob at Boards and Swords . This month's batch of Mortal God's figures, some new, some old. Athenians - bought when the rules first came out in 2019, just after doing evveryone elses's stuff, I had lost the mojo to do these, plus my Thespians have been serving me well. But, with the great shed tidy, and continued popularity amoung my friends, it was about time. The Athenian set had lead heroes, and plastic hoplites/peripoli, but I decide that I can use any of my other hopilites to fill in for the citizens, and that actaully, I sould get on with the lead. Athenian Marine hoplites - regular state troops, as opposed to my irregular Thespians Top down With Athenian shields from the boxed set Ready to go Regular, armoured, marine archers "Hit that one!" "No, that one!...