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...

In the rundown vestry, a fire flickered in the grate while lanterns cast long shadows across the room. Benedict Otterbranch, captain of the Inquisition Warband known (for unknown reasons) as the 'Unused', steepled his paws and looked down from the lectern at the extremely portly mole friar shifting uncomfortably on a bare wooden pew. "So, as you can tell, we had quite the time getting here Brother Moleasticlies. As you are no doubt aware, we have been sent here by the Mother Church to investigate the lack of funds either being put into this fine establishment, or any of the charities for the needy in the environs." The mole looked up with watery eyes and started to mumble under his whiskers. "We have carefully asked around the village, and despite some really VERY generous donations, including by some very affluent landholders, this church appears to have nothing at all in the coffers. Poor as church mce, I believe is the phrase. I would estimate you have conver...

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 ...