10mm Ancient Germans

 I generally find painting any non-uniformed troops a struggle so wading my way through these lads did take a bit of time. There are enough to constitute a allied force within the Roman armies but I think I will have to paint up the same number again to fight them as a stand alone army. I have a few archer and cavalry units to add but they will  to wait a bit for my eyesight to recover!

All figures Steve Barber

Something less taxing next time.

Dave.

Terrain - Grrrr

 I may just have mentioned this before but I hate doing terrain, I'm not particularly good at it and find it all a bit of a chore. However that said these hills were necessary and turned out not too bad, learning on the job as I was. The hills I had were too small, light and each one was just placed on top of the other so any bumping would knock the figures over so I was forced into it.

I'm not going into detail as to how they were constructed as everyone has their own methods and there are plenty of videos out there but here's the pictures with 28mm figures for scale:

Back to figure painting thank goodness!

Dave.

28mm Medieval.

 Morning folks, again a while since I last posted by hey that's life!

Neal came over for a second go at Days of Knights high 2nd edition medieval rules by Chipco Games. We'd played with his 15mm 100 yrs war figs last week and enjoyed it so are giving it a second go now. The rules themselves are well set out with a good number of photograph examples of play for clarity which are very useful, they have a hint of DBA about them but only a hint and as I can state that I hate DBA but still really like the rule that should tell the reader something.

Without delving deeply into the mechanics, what's best is that the game feels like a medieval set of rules in that, certainly in the early i.e. 1250 to say 1400 period the 'units' or groups of elements your commanders control are very limited in their manoeuvrability other than move forwards, with a bit of drift, and swing onto the unengaged flank of an enemy if the opportunity arises unless the have certain levels of commanders attached. These are the king/general, a marshal or a captain who affect the troops in different ways. without these fellow the lads hunch their shoulders and plod forwards to chop the opposition up! All weapon types are of course accounted for and must be used as they were at the time or you won't get the best results. In all the game feels just right for the period and we are enjoying it immensely.

Photos are from about halfway through this weeks encounter with the English in the foreground and the Scots in the background in the first three pictures, other way round in the rest. Figures are 28mm from my Otterburn collection based on Impetus sized bases.

Note what's left of the Scottish first line with a double disorder marker (the two white rings) and the mounted knights trying to block the gap!

French mounted actually but what the heck.

Scots are screwed here I think.

Yes the English (Neal) most certainly have the upper hand, I will have to take moral tests for all of my elements at the end of my turn as the Scots have reached to 25% casualty status. Neal making up for his crappy dice last week at his place, the sod!!!!

Dave.

15mm Persians, Greeks and Macedonians.

 Digging out these figures after having tarted them up a couple of years ago I realised that there were no photographs of the Macedonians at all and none of the Greeks and Persians after having them re-based. So lots of pictures to scroll through lads and lasses.

I was at one point thinking about selling this lot as I'm slowly moving to 10mm, but no, not yet, I'm quite fond of these fellows. Minifigs and all!!!

Dave.