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 ...

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 Friend asked me to rebase some 10mm for him. about 1000 of them! Again, no credit for the painting, just the basing.  Final batch of the 10mm Later Romans/Early Byzantines/Arthurians rebased Heavy infantry and two stands of slingers Top view Archers and light archers More top views   The whole batch    This batch may actually contain Pendraken figures! More Later Romans/Byzantines/Arthurians (ran out of bases to do them all, thankfully, there is a useful store run by some bloke called Leon) Heavy cavalry Long Spear armed infantry Short spear armed infantry More Definitely Pendraken later Romans Another set Generals That's an A4 box worth, and there's another half-box of infantry to do!   Byzantine/Late Romans and/or/maybe Arthurians for Si   Somewhere, one of my Mid-Republicn Roman elephants has escaped in the depths of my shed. I needed a...