Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

"Reports are we have had a traitor in our midst, and he's legged it over to the Spartans" Leandros looked at his assembled troops, Tychon looked at his archers, "Got plenty of arrows lads, we are going to be busy." Polykratos looked over the ruins, "Very odd ruins today, is the style Persian or something?" Tycho leaned forwards to the slingers, extra bullets made up? Peltasts with loads of javelins."  The hoplites with the forces nudged ded each other and muttered, about the shooty types getting all teh glory, "You guys will be definitely busy," Leandros looked at the heavies, "there's lots of hoplites to beat up." "By the way," Polykratos looked at Jeff the  mousikos, "they say the Spartans think you betrayed them to us." "They just didn't like my new song list, man!" "What, the one you called 'Hey, Sparta, you suck!"    David and I met up for an evening of Mortal Gods fun, M...

"Spartans, the only thing worse than Spartans," moaned Polykratos, "is Atheneans!" Leandros leaned back against the slope of the hill, while Tychon stood on teh hill top, looking over the ruins towadrds the Spartan force approaching. "Erm, guys, have youi seen these Spartans?" Leandros lifted his head, "Typical Spartans, not wearing anything!" "They'll all get sunburn, bet they don't care about the the Helot's health." Polykratos shrugged, turning his back on the approaching forces with disintrest. "They're nearly all female, Polykratos!" Tychon laughed. That snapped his head round. David and I met up at Leighton Buzzard Wargames Club for another outing of Mortal Gods. This time, he used some different figures that he's been wanting to get on table for a while. they weren't on the normal unit bases, but as soon as a friend's 3-d printer is back up and running, they will be. Random scatter of terra...

 Following on from seeing the successful Spartan commission , Roger, whom I did the Cathars for , asked me to do a Helleistic Spartan force in 15mm Xyston (that will also double as Ptolemaic and Asiatic or other Alexandrian successor state), and spears from Museum Miniatures Range 'Z'. Pike unit 1 (the guard) and three units of spear armed hoplites plus generals to finish of this commission. The no 1 pikes Simple, but heavy Perfect ranks, unlike 8 & 9! Onwards Players eye view Generals Top view Side on Back view to show the generals Spears 1 It's a big mass I do like the way they rank up Spears 2 - marines? Had to pick the sheilds nicely Off they go Charge! Spears 3 - Spartan spears I REALLY REALLY love this shot! Mean and moody More nudity than... Just so you can see the back and shields Big mass  There are at least 9 units of pikes to do, plus a lot of extras, so I started with the middle units of his army list, pike blocks 4, 5, 6, & 7, ...