Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

 Well, it's been all a minute!  Neil suggested a game of Test of Honour, which neither of us have played since Neil absolutely trounced me in my first attempt at playing... My list was almost the same, The boss was an Onna Bugeisha as my armoured samurai hero , a devoted samurai follower and a battleworn samurai as retainers, bows, arquibusiers, spears. This time I dropped the second spears and took a veteran Ashugari sergeant and a single spearman to get to exactly 24 points.  My mob assembled. Neil putting his boys through their paces.  I mean, it's great looking terrain Neil owns. Really looks atmospheric.  Oh yeah, he split his forces in two, either side of the stream, so I matched him as much as possible. His bows and spears cone down Neil's left, his hero clashes with mine. My retainer follows up as Neil's crosses the bridge. My ashugaru with Tepu unleash a volley at the Samurai crossing the bridge. And their shots strike true!  Neil's first gero is ...

Wednesday - Leighton Buzzard. Neil kindly took me through the Test of Honour rules. It's similar to Mortal Gods. Neil's terrain is beautiful. My single building sits off, left. We went for a stand up fight, Neil arrived at the riverlet first, but found it uncrossable apart from at the bridge (random rol;). My force, (borrowing Neil's cards) three Samurai of different types, and four units of Ashugaru: two spear, one archers, one arquibusiers - 23 points. Sure there is a way of getting it to 24... Neil had two samurai, two spear armed Ashugaru, two archers and a shooter too. My shooting forces escort the fighting types in. My battleworn samurai is behind the shrine center-left, My first shot, the dice are slightly different to Mortal Gods (no wild/pegasus for instance). I got hits, but Neil also saved loads more. My Battleworn Samurai took a series of serious hits from shooting here. Passed his 'Test of Honour', but took an arm injury. -1 attack dice. Drat! The acti...

After a thoroughly pleasent night at Andi's, with a top Thai curry and not many beers, I returned to the Gothic Victoria splendor of Burton Town Hall and Badcon. Even the carpark looked pretty in the sunshine. Quite happy with day one, lost one, won one, perfect . I had won a game, better than I aimed for. Time to roll dice and crush 15mm opponents under the weight of 10mm Pendraken glory. Round 3 vs Nick Overland and Ottomans Nick! What can I say? I've known Nick since 1999. He is the author of the AMAZING Sabresquadron modern rules . We have played many games over the years, but Renaissance is his one of his fortes, and his Ottoman are a really beautiful army and a great army to play against. I last faced them in FoGR, how would they do in ReG? Cards look pretty consistent for a legendary general, 5 cards, 4 greens, and a black... After initial deployment, it became fairly obvious that this was going to be another firefight against an artillery wall (THREE batteries, yoi...