Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Gareth also gifted me some Gallic light horse, which were utterly beautiful, but were not based. So, in preparation for getting thumped next weekend, I based them up.  MeG get's its first run out as a 28mm competition this weekend. Yes, it is slightly out of my present scale for me, and means dusting off some old friends. Bought for me in 1999 by the amazing Mrs Lemmey from Gripping Beast, my Marian/Spartican Roman army for Warhammer Ancient Battles has been revamped and rebased. A few extra figures added, a few repairs here and there, and they are good for another 24 years! Caesar's legio X Army elite My view Legio IX Hispania, with their Eagle, and two new figures with Warlord's Volonius and Pullo from 'Rome' in the front rank (two of the new figures in the army) "Titus Pullo, get back in line you drunkard!" They are veterans, honest! Two average (and allied) legio You can tell they are average...

 JC vs Alex, yes please! Mark asked to do a Rollcall practise, as he has been busy prepping his Alexandrian Macedonian and for me, any excuse to drag out my Caesarian Romans. 7000 points is not the industry standard at 28mm, a 1000 lower than 2023, but this actually plays in my favour, as I only lose a unit of 6 Gauls, which are now fours, no longer de charge, but short spear charge only jav, interesting and my Scutarii are now 4s too. We both ahd such elite forces that we broke on 4 dead units! Alexander after a certain date auto-attacks (that's a change in the lists that snuck through), so Alex had the drop on the terrain choices, and we ended up on a featureless plain. Did not matter, I kept three reds from my nine scouting cards!  I get 140%, Mark gets 50%. I put my feet up for five minutes as Mark deployed all bar one of his units. We did both opt for a terrain piece each, which had NO effect on the game at all. Mark stacked his pikes (one of which was superior, in the ce...