Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

 Napoleon has unleashed the Guard on an Austrian formation! Mark and I met up for a game of Soldiers of Napoleon after last week's Sharp Practise skirmish, time for a Divisional Level game. The battlefield was an empty stretch of farmland, with one small copse and a patch of bogggy ground that the Austrians had anchored their centre on and massed their artillery there. On the left, two units of dragoons and an artillery battery stood in front of the copse, hilding the flank. To the right, ominously, lurked four units of Austrian Grenadiers. Somewhere behind the lines, Austrian light cavalry was rushing frowards to help. The Guard deployed en echelon right, with two brigades of Guard foot to the centre and right, the left was held by the fearsome Guard Heavy Cavalry Brigade, while the Guard Light Cavalry was somewhere off table in reserve. The battle started with the guns of the Grand Battery of the infantry plus all tabletop batteries hammering the cetre right Austria...

Mark and I met up for a game of Sharp Practice. My French were unchanged, minus their engineers and extra cannister for the artilley, vs Mark's British. Both forces featured three infantry units. Mark had two light infantry units, I had one, Mark brought Light Dragoons, I used Cuirassiers. I also had a 25lber. He had better CinC, but I had invested in troop numbers. Mark rolled for far right deployment zone, I got central. I also used a mobile deployment point for my Voltigeurs, Cuirassiers and Artillery. Unfortunately, my force can't actually use this! Oh well! Next time I'll get it right. Simply misread the rules, and only picked it up as we were playing. I apologised profusely too Mark, and we will call this a moral victory to him. We played on. Turn 1 : Mark's forces deploy. Two units of rifles and his Dragoons arrive first. ALL my forces appeared turn 1! To the front left, Voltigeurs take small ruins, whereas the artillery and cuirassiers grab the hill opposite Ma...

"What do you mean it refuses to render in 3d?" The Diplomatic Droid screamed at the Med-Bot in a steessed and undiplomatic manner. "The Ambassador is away and you know the Emperor has invited us to entertain." The Med-Bot shrugged and uttered "I am a fully equipped and trained medical droid, and have seen action in fourteen warzones and been decorated in eleven of them, I will remind you. You know you and I are not sone third-rate entertainment droids!" The displacement wind that yore through the Ambassadorial ante-chamber signalled the arrival of the Emperor, as did several megagallons of salt water suddenly finding itself falling out the Imperial visiting tank and being pumped to the resevoirs for later. "Hello you two, as I believe you humans say. What do we have tonight? Think of this as a 'dressed rehearsal' for later." The holo projection flashed into life, the two droids lasared encrypted communications to each other about being ca...