Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

A few months back, Nigel gifted me his 10mm Imperial Guard, which I have rebased. To boost certain units I finished off some of his half painted artillery and Old Guard, and added three extra generals. . Heavy guns and heavy infantry Back view So far, so impressive I've also added the Young Guard Tirailleur Chasseurs/Voltigeurs and Tirailleur Grenadiers/Tirailleurs Advance Top view Advance Back view Advance that way! [img]https://i.imgur.com/x7I0Cc3.jpeg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/x7I0Cc3.jpeg[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/x7I0Cc3.jpeg[/img]

wo more battalions of Baggage Train 10mm French Napoleonics, this time 17th Line, 1st & 2nd Battalions 76 foot Top view Its a goodly mix Back view Ready for action   Baggage Train French. 10mm French battalions of the 13th Line, plus four stands of generals for a commission. Top view Ready for action Facing left Players view Voltigeurs forwards

 "Jim, a fine and sunny day here,as the chaotic Beastie Boys face the mighty Wheezy Tossers, an ogre team of note, on their third game of the season, have managed to hire the Mighty Zug for a game to make up for their dead Ogre. Should be a good, blood soaked game." "Three-thousand chaotic fans of all shapes and sizes, some literally, and and seven-thousand ogre fans fill the stadium, Bob." "Most of those, Jim, are Gnoblars, so only take up a small space." "Listen to those cheering fans, but those Chaos voices almost drown out the ogre fans squeals, the chants become indistinguishable and neither side will benefit from that lovely extra reroll.!" "The kick is up, and comes down. The Beasties front line easily takes down Gnoblars, unfortunately, not all the ogres are taken down as easily, only two of the big guys are down." "Ohhh, Goldie did not get a chance to pick the ball up, Bob." "And where did those ogres learn to th...

 Mark and I met up for a game at Leighton Buzzard Wargames Club. My Imperial Guard vs his Austrians, but he had taken an earlier list (1806), whereas mine was back to 1811. This time saw the first fielding of my new Young Guard. My plan was to adance the guard through the two villages, one brigade had deployed forwards in the centre to accomplish this; then swing in from the left with the Gauard Heay Cavalry brigade. Unfortunately, Mark had other ideas! He had deployed with his cavalry brigade screening forwards. Then it all really went his way. Soldiers of Napoleon has three things you can do on each card, an amount of units that can move, a rally state and special events. Sometimes, the cards fall absolutely how you want them to, sometimes, they don't. Turn one and Mark had been dealt two sets of 'At the quick' special event cards, allowing a march and then a manouver (or vice versa) for three units. Exactly the amount of cavalry units in his brigade! Combined with a ...

Last night's game, Dik and I settled down to a civilised game of Soldiers of Napoleon. Dik has many beautiful 15mm armies, so I matched his scale, and then had to decide whether t use my 1806 Prussians of my Anglo-Allied. After some umming-and-ahhing, I plumped for the Anglo-Allied as the second 1806 Prussian brigade still needs more infantry. We chose 1000 points, and Dik pre-randomised the terrain, A big, empty, centre sector, my left with woods, and the right with a large hill and a hedged field. My list British Infantry Brigade : 2 x 5 stand Line Infantry units 1 x 5 Light Infantry 1 x 5 Veteran Infantry 3 rifles attachments 2 gun 9lber battery with full caisons  Artillery reserve with a 9lber and a Congrave Rocket battery (we were not sure if this was a legal formation, but the rockets did not hit anything all night) with full caisons  Brunswick Brigade 1 x 5 stand Leibgaurds 2 x 5 stand reserve infantry 1 x 3 Uhlans 1 jager attachment 2 gun 9lber horse artillery batte...