Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Last night, David very kindly invited me round for a game, so he could test out his hoplite Greeks. Seven units of Greek spears, one of which was superior, Thracians, cavalry, Cretan archers, Javelinmen. Tasty! There is quite a void in my army lists between 650BCE(Siatics) and Mid Republican Roman (c100BCE), I really do not have anything in that timescale, so I had to be creative. My list, cobbled together from Si's rebases , my Siatics , Mid Republican Romans and Dacian s (pretending to be Thracians and Illyrians). Maybe I should get a contemporary army one year? I held no great hope for this list, and I'm not the world's greatest fan of pike, so let's see how we do? The terrain, very dense mountains, sensibly David chose lots of open terrain, and had a perfect sector to hold with this spearmen in the middle of his line, secured by bad going; as did I. I managed to outscout him by 50% (not bad on two cards) and I was attacking. Deployment was two straight lines, ...

Adrian and Roger came round yesterday and finished our bathroom. And there was much rejoycing . Today they came back for a game to celebrate. Adrian using the Hafsid I am painting for him (with a few Hausa and Picts proxying until I get his archers painted) and Roger umpiring. I used my Senguko Samurai as Adrian wanted to try out against a 'hard list' and I was only too happy to oblige. Despite winning the terrain (dense mountains) and the initial placement roll off (mountains, dense, secure flank), I was comprehensively out-scouted. 130% - 0%! Wow! My Samurai are kind of used to this, so no biggy... Honest! But I might be having to add that 30 to my next game. The terrain was intersting, with the right being a secure flank, plouged fields, and two rocky ground sections. On the left a village, a ploughed field and a wood secured that flak, but not brilliantly well. The forces amass. On my right are my protected average bows with their general, inside them two allies units in...