Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

They say it comes in 3s... Well, this was the weekend for it! Ice and Fire, organised by Ray at Battlefield Hobbies saw 32 of us using non-European lists to beat the snot out of each other in a friendly manner (in my case, literally, more on that later). My list, it's my developing Canari. I knew there were issues going in to this. It had beaten Mark Spratt 15-4 and 15-8 vs his Mongols and Samurai, but against the wider gaming community I wasn't so sure. Game 1 vs Hammy and Ghaznavid This was always going to be a tough game, Hammy is good, his list was tasty, his elephants were armoured, his cavalry was superior, he's too nice a guy, it was his shop... Enough excuses Will! Things started well enough, when an all foot army outscouts a cavalry heavy army by 20%. Green 10%, Yellow 20% and Red 40%, my hopes were up. The terrain decided to go only in the fanks, or fall off, so the centre was bare! I did get two man-eating (casuse KaB) swamps down, a wood, a forest and a secu...

With the current lockdown easing, six of us gathered for safe and socially distanced gaming at Battlefield Hobbies in Daventry . Game 1: Senguko Samurai vs Western Han I took along my Senguko Samurai for the morning game vs Steve borrowing Hammy's Western Han, which was a teaching game, and in the afternoon, my never victorious Tudors faced off against Lee's nearly finished new 10mm Spanish that I had been painting for him. Samurai deploy facing Western Han, as this is Steve's first game in a long while, his cards are on display and I was talking him through the system, so any rules, cards, lists etc in the background are Steve getting used to the game. Terrain was in my favour, and I plumped for mountains, I even got both villages on the table. For the Samurai, my allies holding the gap between two villages on the right, and archers in the castle village, cavalry out left and the bulk of my foot in the middle. Steve put artillery and his mixed bill/crossbow units in cen...