Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

A couple of days after, Roger and I convened again over his games/dining room table for another try out.  The Mapuche had been tweaked, and were back up to Roger's happy place of 18 units; and as this was his final trial before Britcon. I decided, looking at the armies he could field, and put out something really painful for him to fight against.  So I decided to borrow Roger's Edward IV expedition to France. This is a list and army Nik G painted a while back, used very successfully (and it doesn't even have horse archers) and had sold to Roger before building his latest version of the same list using different figures. It features two skilled powerbow units, three experienced powerbows, all with front rank of protected melee experts, two eights of billmen, a six of combat shy poor handgunners, a six of heavily armoured 2 handed cut and crush foot with melee experts and a unit of dismountable knights, plus a unit of 8 mercenary pikes. All pretty tasty.   My deployment, in...

Invited out to Geneva to play the resident Swiss national champion, Roger.  Well, actually, my whole family were invited out for a wonderful holiday by Lake Geneva, and while there I played Roger several times at his wife's official residence.   I did take my Samurai, but I decided that for this game I would modify Roger's beautiful Champa army to be Royal Thai (it was the Thai King's birthday that day, so it seamed fitting), which is why you may see some 10mm Samurai units amoungst the Thai, representing devastating charger types. Despite being a legend, I did manage to out scout and out territory the horde of Mapuche (this version had 16 TuGs). It was a nearly featureless table as most terrain disappeared off into the waterway! I took all 12 (yes 12) available superior elephants as I wanted to see what they were like, split into 3 x 2 ellies and 2x 3 for bulk. The rest of the the rest of the army was a 6 and an 8 of short spear melee expert foot, a unit of archers, a un...