Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Many, many years ago, on a stormy (or maybe frosty, probabaly just rainy) while playing WhAB up at Milton Keynes, a man walked into the club, plonking two or three old fashioned LARGE toolboxes on a table and declaring "I dodn't need these any more!" and walking out. One of our clubmates followed him out, and asked whether he wanted anything for them, he firmly declared no, and left. Never to be seen again! We divied out the boxes, and as we were building armies for the 'El Cid' suppliment, a quick roll-off on a d6 each, I got the last choice of an Arabic type army, which on further investigtion, turned out to be Ghaznavid. So, a quick order to Gripping Beast bought some Black Guard, generals/characters and standard bearers andmusicians. Then I rebased them for WhAB and used them for Almoravid/Almohads. Many moons later, I rebased them again for MeG is 28mm as we are practising the Magna varient (and if you read my last battle report, without much suc...

Ahh, the anatomy of a loss! Mark and I met up at Leighton Buzzard Wargames club for a friendly game of MeG, using the Magna (28mm) variant. I have been rebasing my inherited Ghaznavid/Andalusian/Arabs of late (there will be future post about these), so when Mark suggested Magna I agreed and tried to build a viable list with what I've got. Mark, fresh off getting a drubbing at Campaign with his army, was looking for blood! The terrain fell as featureless, a waterway held one side, which we both anchored our camps on, and Mark got a piece of rough going. That was it. My army was based around combined arms, Mark's around a great slab of powerbows! I out scouted him by 30%, but what came out was scary for my mainly cavalry army! On the right, two units of billmen support four units of retinue archer and artillery! The rough going is held by mercenary crossbows, on the left, two more archer units, a ubit of hand gunners, dismounted men-at-arms and a unit of heavy knights. Most of ...

 JC vs Alex, yes please! Mark asked to do a Rollcall practise, as he has been busy prepping his Alexandrian Macedonian and for me, any excuse to drag out my Caesarian Romans. 7000 points is not the industry standard at 28mm, a 1000 lower than 2023, but this actually plays in my favour, as I only lose a unit of 6 Gauls, which are now fours, no longer de charge, but short spear charge only jav, interesting and my Scutarii are now 4s too. We both ahd such elite forces that we broke on 4 dead units! Alexander after a certain date auto-attacks (that's a change in the lists that snuck through), so Alex had the drop on the terrain choices, and we ended up on a featureless plain. Did not matter, I kept three reds from my nine scouting cards!  I get 140%, Mark gets 50%. I put my feet up for five minutes as Mark deployed all bar one of his units. We did both opt for a terrain piece each, which had NO effect on the game at all. Mark stacked his pikes (one of which was superior, in the ce...