Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Polykratos ran his hands through the long grass, a shadow loomed over him, he shook himself awake. "Alright porcupine?" Tychon the archer offered a hand to the Locargos, "Enjoying your nap?" Leandros had an arm in a sling, never a good sign, and Polykratos's ears rang. "Where are the Persians?" "Pursuing the other Greeks, out boys holding the hill was enough of a discouragement. Plus, I think they used up their arrows on you two!" The archer whistled a jaunty tune as he walked away. "Still not in Hades, Polykratos?" "Still not in Hades, Tychon!" he grinned, slapping his second on teh back, and regretting it as his hand contacted armour. Mark and I were joined by David at teh Leighton Buzzard Wargames Club for a three sided game of Mortal Gods. David had been threatening to get his stuff on table for a while, and we decided now was the time. Each of us took 400 points. My Thespians, Mark with Persians, and David with generi...

The weather was glorious, lockdown genty easing, Roger was in country, Adrain had time off and Paul needed a break from real life, so we gathered at mine on Saturday for some games of Mortiem et Gloriam. Then on Sunday, while Roger headed off to his new life as a diplomatic service husband, I catered for the guys and played with my youngest while umpiring in the morning, Rob came over to play Adrian at MeG, and in the afternoon, Mort struggled the quarter mile up our road for two games of Burrows and Badgers.  A pretty cool way to spend the weekend. Worst thing was the sunburn on the back of my neck!   Game one and two My Hausa Kingdoms with Tuereg allies vs Adrian's Hafsids. Scouting, despite having 5 sugs of light horse and 5 sugs of javelinmen, Adrian had 5 scouting cards, three of which were black or white! My hand was slightly better! 80% out scouted, I went for a nap while Adrian deployed 13 units!! On the other table, Paul's Archmedians faced off against Roger (borrowin...

A rather chilly afternoon in Leighton Buzzard, Paul came round for another MeG game. He was testing out a new version of his favourite list, Archmedioian Persian, while I was giving my Hausa another run out (after a year in the box) trying to get the balance right. Knowing Paul and his penchant for this list, it was always going to be a hard ask to beat. I could have taken Romans and walked through his centre, or Sassanids and hit hard with catafracts, but using the Hausa this was much more colourful and, to be honest, even more fun! Yay, out scouted Paul for the second game on the trot! Huzzah ! Deployment (as Paul deals) my allies are reliable, phew! On the left is rocky ground, I had a hill, and scrub on the left, which my camels were positioned behind, ready to ignore it as they moved through. Inside them was my main cavalry body, superior guards and normal cavalry. The hill was occupied by my five units of foot and on the far left two light horse stare down Paul's saka sub...