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...

"So, let me get this straight," enquired Tychon stringing his bow, "we are picking a fight with Spartans over a bunch of valuable resources?" Leandros looked at the archer, and under his kranoa, raised an eyebrow, "If you mean free a bunch of captives, who are set to become slaves, yes " Polykratos slapped the Lochagos on the back "All very noble, but you know slavery is the engine which drives all our economies." "But not as helots." "Fair point." David popped over for a fight a couple of weeks back. His Spartan types taking on the might of my Thespian horde. Scenario was a five turn, objective grab. Two points for the central one, one point each for the others. David insisted on using his slaves. Don't zoom in too closely. Randomly placed terrain landed the big hill in David's deployment area, the temple of Artemis in mine. A quick dive forwards secures objectives one, while Tychon and the archers draw a bead on Dav...