Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Sergeant Hall leaned back against the stone wall, taking a long slug from his watter bottle. He threw the creature into the bushes, wiped the bottle and took a drink. A dust cloud approached the remains of the platoon, scouts shouted 'Friends' and men stood their guard down slightly. Hall staggered to his feet, exhausted by the recent fighting . "Who is it?" "Heavy dragoons." "Eh... there's none within a hundred miles of here. Who are they?"  Hall walked out of the shade and looked, then swore under his breath, he knew who they were, magnificent, but possibly unsuited for fighting Martians, the Shropshire Yeomanry ! Farmers, lawyers and gentry...  Their Sergeant was well known to Hall, mostly from mess dinners, a twenty year veteran with the Buffs, who had inherited a portion of money and had retired up to Salop, Lovell had whipped his section into shape in recent years, this would be more like it! Figures are Lancashire...

Leaning against the fence post, cleaning his rifle, Corporal Hall looked over his shoulder towards the rest of his section, as a huge red figure crested the horizon at the road. "What's this place called Sarge?" "Waterloo Farm." "Seriously, we are making a stand against the Martians at Waterloo Farm, let's hope that is a good omen!" Invasion Earth is the latest idea from Simon Hall and his rules stable that has produced MeG. Set in 1887, when Martians arrive with vengeance,wrecking havoc and plucky British soldiers try to hold the line against these strange one ton mobile stones. Graham very kindly agreed to let me come round and take him through the game ( please look at his blog ). The table is a 4x4, and I put out some random terrain, the centrepiece is a Franco-Belgian farmhouse from Commission Figurines . The trees, ponds and roads are by Timecast , fences by Blotz , door mat by Dunelm ! Brournville chocolate by Cadbury! Martian...