Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Another batch of Magister 10mm Syrian archers Guards Archers Cananite Swordsmen     (Converted from slingers) Cananite Sythemen Syrian Spearmen

Two more spoons, Skullrollers, which needed a skull them, so who better than the Death of Rats (inspired by the great Josh Kidby) SQUEAK! And a spoon for Attack at Devises (which unfortunately due to holidays, I cannot attend), at the request of Ade Nash, who requested a 'Carry On Cleo' theme. Who knew painting Sid James would be harder than the late, great Kenneth Williams?

 Scene: Student house, students laze around, bored. Various weaponry lies about too. Zombies still pawing at the hastily reinforced windows. Vyvyan sits on a beige (it may have been another colour once) sofa, watching the static on the screen. Vyv: BORED! Mike: I know Vyvyan, but until we sort out this zombie problem, I am pretty sure that not even Channel 4 will be on. Rick: Oh, that's just great, this is the system oppressing the masses. Neil: But you said television was drugging the masses and stupefying the people.  Mike: To be fair, it would only have been Tomorrow's World! Vyvyan: And as we can see, there really is no tomorrow at the moment. (Sound of gunshots in the distance) Neil: Oh man, that sounds really heavy! Mike: It also sounds like someone is muscling into our patch, TO ARMS! (To camera) I've always wanted to say that! Almost immediately after the last game, Ruth needed to launch a rescue mission to recapture the incapacitated Goldman, ...

A warm up game for Skullrollers at the end of this month. I was using my Tudor English , as I thought it would give Paul a challenge, and partly because I haven't used it in ages. The list is... not good. It has 5 heavy hitting units, but they can only be in 4 bases, so to use it will be a real issue, especially against a player as good as Paul. I chose to invade with a strategic intercept, led by Henry VIII himself. The list is below.  The table, the jelly babies are in a wood by the way! Paul's army fills the gap, perfectly. I decided to try to bring in my line and pinch point the spears and pikes in the middle of Paul's line. The two lines close on each other quickly. My bows, lower left, contract. My artillery has a lovely fire lane past my pike block too! My three knight blocks line up on Paul's left hand units. pikes are perfectly aligned and bills look on at lots of Paul's spears. Henry and the Duke of Suffolk join the Ye...