Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

Wednesday night, as the local G-class star set slowly below the horizon, Neil and I met at the newly reopened Leighton Buzzard Wargames Club to play Mortiem et Gloriam with our Biblical armies. I was using my Saitic Egyptian, an all arms/heavy infantry list vs Neil who had brought along the 'Indusrty Standard' (ie lethal) Mitanni (36 skilled chariots, 6 skilled foot archers, some bow and spears, some spear with bows, same as Cid and I both ran at Warfare 2019 , you know, back before the plague). My list: Strategic intercept on the terrain chart really helped, as I could choose from Standard or Coastal, or I could stick with my Standard or Coastal... oh. Scouting, these were the cards Neil used after he equalled my 20%! So 7 units went down as 50% of 13. Glory shot of my ruins acting as rocky ground, coz it looks cool! And my ever growing town lurks behind, the battle would be fought on the plains between. Mitanni forces start to deploy. As the sun glints off the needles outsi...

Wooden Spoon, this will be a fun chariot theme. The first ride of the three chariot books in a major competition. I was bringing my Mitanni, in the massive effort to show that in this 'scissor-paper-stone-lizard-Spock' period can be fought by the equivalent of a horse archer army. Below in my list (and Cid's). Now completely illegal... The runners and riders for this competition. Cid and I ended up using EXACTLY the same army, exactly, down to every last detail!  The first two games also feature shot curtsy of Nik Gaukroger. Game 1 : The draw, I get another fight against Pete Entwistle after out tussle at Ribble Rumble . Five Hegemons is an impressive list, and Pete's armies are always beautiful. The table fell as 'dense' and it's not greatly chariot friendly is it? Waterway, hill, a town, rocky ground and woods. Yay, I out scout the Chinese by 50% This one wasn't subtle, Pete deployed on his hill, and came through a wood, ...