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Warfare (post-)Mortem et Gloriam - Biblical action (The prologue)

(Scene, a small rise in the Egyptian desert, above a long abandoned set of ruins. A large dust storm approaches from the Dead Lands. A figure swathed in black, his face covered in scars stares out as it, shaking his head. Riding up the rise a black clad messanger on a blown horse appears) "Arbeth Bay, it is as we feared, the great death awakens." The messanger quaked. "Humph. Psamtik I protects us, we ride to aid him." The Bay saddled up his horse, and with the messanger, ready to ride down to his men's encampment where word had already reached and men busied themselves readying for whatever journies they would take. On the way, the messanger looked at Arbeth, and called across, "Why do the Greek dead appear as shades, not skeletons like our own honoured dead?" "Legend says they were burned at death, and go to an underworld where they haunt as ghosts, rather than sensible mummies like ours." Arbeth Bay replied. "Their gods are weird, wh...

Warfare (post-)Mortem et Gloriam - Biblical action (Game 1)

Round 1 vs Roger Pitfield's Five Hegemon Chinese Arbeth Bay looked on at the approaching dust cloud, Chinese, they were a LONG way from home? Had the present Pharoah reneged on a trade deal, again? The messenger scampered back from the shade of a nearby village, "Chariots, lots of them, sir!" "We can deal with that!" "Lots of four-horse heavy chariots sir! At least six units sir!" "Okay, we might need help dealing with that!" Yes, the army I had just spent the last two weeks painting and basing ! I was carrying this, mine and the Mitanni when being about 30' from the stands of Ascot Racecourse, and I managed to drop the lot!  AARGH!  Three armies, plummeting into the tarmac! Insert several swearwords here.  Roger, Adrian and I spent a rather tense hour with many bottles of superglue rebuilding the armies. Roger was aghast and I was mortified (and we were all rather overcome by the fumes). So we started deploying just as everyone else was...

Roger's Five Hegemon Chinese in 15mm for Mortem et Gloriam.

 What ho all! Roger asked me to finish off his Chinese Five Hegemon army for Warfare (Chariot period theme). Roger basically rebuilt the ground floor (and drains)our house in 2020, so this was a small part of my eternal repayment. Two units of heavy chariots - these are not 'regular' troops. Big models Charge! Can you spot where I might have got bored painting chariots? And another four Back view - one with Swiss diplomatic plates. Give me my burning spear... Then two units of regular 'Guard' chariots Horsepower! Trundle! Third unit of four, Uniform details Moving so fast they were blurred. Bird's eye view The rest of the army was a case of rebasing to match the new units, highlighting the flesh, and sorting out weapon and armour. His spears and halbardiers Top view Archers Top down Skirmishers (only swords and armour repainted here) Top view Roger's generals, liked these, just needed flesh and bronze. The Emperor looks serine Bottom layer of the box Top laye...