Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

 Game three, and Peter Cross's Ming Chinese. Oh look, decent cavalry, polearmed armed infantry, artillery AND elephants. The perfect anti-cavalry force. Drat. Did no one bring a nice, soft, unprotected loose foot army?  Oh well! Peter is a lovely bloke and this was going to be a great match. Terrain, what terrain? All on the right, few pieces of scrubby ground, a rocky hill that my archers gladly stood upon to admire the view, and that was it. Peter massed his cavalry on the left, and a line aof very solid infantry with many crossbows, pole arms and artilerry pieces on teh right. Behind lurked a line of very sof t and squashy infantry, guarding the camp. My plan: refuse the infantry, do something suicidal with the cavalry and camelry, duck those 4(!) elephants coming my way rather too quickly, avoid every battery of artillery the infantry all had. Honestly, as a cavalryman, this is where you DO NOT want to be! The sun shines on the righteous as we advance. My Tuaregs sits bac...

Round 4 and I face Cid with Gupta Indian. Gulp! Cid, the number 1 ranked player in the UK, with an anti-cavalry elephant based army (12 of them). Don't think I have ever beat him, but at least I have two wins for the weekend and this will be a great game (if, no doubt, one sided). At least scouting went my way! :D the giraffes do the maths at 90% outscouting the Indian masses. All that means is I get to see where 90% of his elephants are to start with! Archers, elephants, elephnats and archers. It's wall-to-wall out there! Terrain, tall crops dominate the left (oh yeah, elephants ignore them). A gentle hill on the right, a gentle hill on my baseline (Heeeeeelllllo camp and archer types) and some camel friendly scrub to the left off camera inhabitted by my infantry. Giraffes wander past, waiting for their lift home, knowing it won't be long. A turn or so later, and on the right we are on each other, a nine of Cid's short spear javelinmen take on my 8 man melee expert in...