Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

I  have, after much soul searching (no I could not find mine either), decided that I really should stretch my Pictish spearmen a whole 1000 years. 300ish to 1300 ish, so really stretching the whole Pict-morph-thing now. So 10mm to replace the fallen over the winter, this will be fun ( 18 months later, and summer is on the way and I finally started them ) This means a restart and finish with my Scots army back where I started with them for DBM, a successful army, but before MeG came out I had not touched them in 10 years, then I sold my 15mm version of them in 2014 (and then were instantly stolen from my late friend's car).  So, back to the 1300s version. 1315 to be exact. A project I've been putting off for years, but now I have started the Medieval Scots spearmen from c.1315 with Pendraken figures and flags . Got this lot finished just in time for this weekend's MeG tournement. More Scots spears and the generals Another 25 ...

Two Saturdays ago I had arranged a teaching game in the morning with Julian, then an afternoon game vs Lee. Julian is an old friend from MKWS, and local to BFH , so it made sense in these mad days to meet up, bemasked, in neutral territory. He had tired the rules in their Beta testing phase, demoed by Si Hall himself, but had not played against anyone since. Over Lockdown he had tried the rules solo after the compendium was released, but this was his first 'real game' for a long while. He requested to use his Medieval English against me, and I was more than happy to oblige. It did involve some head scratching on my part for a suitable opponent (and kicking myself for selling my one suitable army before MeG appeared), I decided my Picts/Early Scots could morph into Medieval Scots for 1315- slightly lacking in armour, but they will do. Generals names... well... what did you expect ...   The terrain, Julian sensibly avoided the mountains, and we ended up with dense coastal and Bru...