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11 Jun 2017 at 2:08pm15mm Indian allied contingent for ADLG
Having flirted with the idea of actually using my Classical Era Greek Successor States armies on many occasions, and now discovering that the Indians (in their Kushan incarnation) also work well with the Sassanids I decided to refurbish a Classical Indian allied contingent.
These are troops who had been languishing in a drawer for many years, so they were delighted to be brought out into the light and converted into L'Art de la Guerre DBE double based elements to make up an allied contingent with essentially all of the useful options.
You can see the finished collection here
7 Jun 2017 at 10:59pm
This Campaign is Over !!!
No - not an election-themed blog post, but a potentially welcome notification that SIX full-page reports from the inaugural L'Art de la Guerre competition at Campaign in Milton Keynes are now available to use to distract yourself from the tedium of election day in the UK (and also probably another edition of "I Can't Believe He Just Tweeted THAT" day in the US, just to be fair to everyone who might be reading this).
Marvel as the Sicilian Armenians use every Mafioso cliche in the book to take on a near-clean-sweep of German armies with just one set of tactics and two pieces of terrain!
Thrill as Knights smash into Knights, and bounce off spearmen in a "they're in combat in round 2??" ringing endorsement for the immediacy of ADLG combat
Gasp as animated GIF's sneak their way into the match reports showcasing culturally appropriate contextual messaging at the end of each report, and ...
Drool as you learn along with the Sicilian Milites just how to make Lemon Drizzle cake at home!
These reports also come with a fully-functional podcast where at least three of the protagonists talk about the games and other rubbish immediately after the event finishes!
So, get out, vote, and then rush home and read on - you know that it's an offer you can't refuse...
29 May 2017 at 9:02pm
The Renaissance of The Renaissance - 3 FoGR Reports using the draft rules rev...
A subtle revision of FoGR Renaissance is in the offing, and to help test the rules the Kings Capital in Oxford is besieged by eager gamers all keen to raise the standard for King or for Parliament!
What will happen in an event where in previous year's I've taken Parliamentarians and Scots?
Why, it's One for All and all for The King!, as we shop at the Waitrose of Life, not the Lidl of Despair for 3 FoGR reports!
27 May 2017 at 8:06pm
The Sassanids are almost here..!
A Bank holiday weekend and a mixed forecast meant I accelerated the basing and finishing of the Sassanid ADLG army in order to take advantage of the warm dry weather for dullcote-ing the troops.
Normally I like to add the static grass before matt varnishing, but in this case the weather was just too good to miss, so here are the "before" and "after" dullcote shots for your delectation.
The whole lot...
Essex Ghaznavid infantry stand in - as I am sure they do for many wargamers - as Dailami infantry. I have added a couple of random arab-looking archers to the 40x40 base so they can have integral support (a nice-to-have in ADLG if you have spare points).
The Legio Heroica infantry command with Irregular mounted command. The shield ended up a bit 'FC Barcelona', but that's still pretty cool, right?
The Donnington elephants tower over the rest of the men
Very simple sun-themed banners. No LBMS transfers for me today, more's the pity!
I have used some new colour palettes for these troops, in particular Vallejo ESMERALDA (071) and MAGENTA (042) together with Army Painter Hydra Turquoise. I've never used such vibrant colours before but for this army they do sort of work.
I went with different schemes on all of the Clibanarii - they are nobles after all.
The still-shiny levy spear in serried ranks...
I might go back later and add more design to the Generals horse barding.
Banners and pennants are another thing I'm still considering...probably out of metal foil.
Each of the three elephants has a consistent colour scheme
Two types of LH from 2 manufacturers - Legio Heroica and Irregular. The Irregular ones can be javelin or bow armed as they have both.
Plenty of blue Lightbulb hats on display
24 May 2017 at 12:33pm
The Sassanids are coming...slowly..
With the 28mm Goths mostly out of the way now (apart from two dozen cavalry...oops!) these 15mm Sassanid Persians have made it to the top of the pile again after a bit of a hiatus.
The 9 bases of Clibanarii are now all painted and varnished, just needing to be based and the elephants are on their way too.
Most Legio Heroica figures.
The Levy spearmen/horde/mob are going to be in 3 ranks so they can appear either as Mediocre Spear or as a Mob. Donnington elephants in the background - Irregular Levy.
After some dithering I based the Generals on 40mm round bases - they won't be used for other armies and it's a cool look. Not sure I'd be keen enough to rebase any others but for new stuff it makes a nice change. These are Irregular mounted and Legio Heroica foot
The Clibanarii have a bit of a blue/purple theme going on
4 elements of LH and 3 of LH bowmen round out the army - I have the cataphracts already
21 May 2017 at 12:25pm
Copplestone Barbarians sneak into the battle line...
Having acquired a pack of Copplestone Barbarian Heroes earlier this year in a complex shipping and exchange rate transaction involving a man known by many as the scourge of TMP, and which, fortunately, has yet to be drawn into the "Car Wash" scandal engulfing much of Brazil, I have finally gotten round to painting the figures and sneaking them into various 'proper' barbarian battle lines.
Here are the guys - proper 18mm Heroic 15mm scale, on the painting table
Three of them now form part of the front line of my enough for an ADLG army's worth of double-based DBx units of generic Barbarian Gauls and Germans
Two more are faster moving, even with such huge swords, and fight alongside the loose formation Gauls and Britons, again already DBE'ed for ADLG
Were you ever to wish for a mid 80's German Hair Metal band in 15mm, these figures might also make good starting points for a conversion ...
Two more now fight alongside the Vikings and Rus, as legendary "Northmen" - my theory being that what we recreate on the tabletop is as much based on first hand reports turned into the stuff of legend by retelling over the years - and we're also recreating cool films too - so why not!
And the one axeman in the pack is suitably mad, appearing with some Two Dragons Beserkers
Isn't that a Massive Chopper?
Ready to create legends... Follow the painting progress of the main batch which these were siphoned from here on the Lead Doesn't Bleed blog
11 May 2017 at 10:54pm
28mm Lombards in action
The much-trailed Gothic/Germanic/Viking/Barbarian army that has been on the painting table for the last year got a near-full outing tonight against some old-school Hinchcliffe Byzantines.
Playing 25mm L'Art de la Guerre, my 200AP Lombard list was:
25 Units
Here are the guys in action...
Heavy Foot advance in the centre (a part-unfinished general with no flag urging them on...)
Bowmen and Swordsmen in action
The Shieldwall advances
Spare bowmen slide into the centre - semi-fictional Pictish crossbowman figure on one of the bases
Slave hiding in a Plantation
It's a casualty!
The Heavy Foot struggle to hold back the enemy mounted force - red markers = 3 hits
But while they do, the rest of the Saxons close in on the exposed Skoutatoi
The Slavs look set to overrun the Byzantine bowmen too
Old School Hinchliffe Kavalllaroi with impressive banner skills
Everything is engaged on a broad front - the Lombard cavalry are being eroded, but the Lombard foot is deep into the soft infantry underbelly of the smaller Byzantine force
Not much shooting taking place now - everyone is in combat!
The last Byzantine archer unit falls - an inaugural victory for the Lombards!
5 May 2017 at 10:48pm
With a spare 28mm figure or two....
.. from my Gripping Beast Plastic Late Romans still lying around, I decided it was a good time to add a 25mm "Heroic" Commander to my Late Roman 15mm armies... and here's the evidence.
This is the in-box Gripping Beast plastic commander figure, together with a standard bearer on a 40mm round base to act as an L'Art de la Guerre General
The standard bearer looks especially glum today for some reason...
He is clearly somewhat lacking the exuberance of his boss.. but he does have an LBMS transfer for his flag, so it's not all bad.
Usual Army Painter
Here they are with some Later Roman/Byzantine infantry from Strategia et Tactica
Leading from the back in textbook style
Or from the front, making the standard bearer even more unhappy... and showing off the LBMS transfer on his bosses shield as well.
(unusually, these pictures are all clickable and give you a much bigger version)
23 Apr 2017 at 6:15pm
L'Art de la Guerre Renaissance...
ADLG Renaissance is in development... and even with having not actually played it or laid eyes on a copy, I do know that it will probably involve "double units" for Pike & Shot.
The idea of rebasing is a frightening one, but amazingly, on examination of my Renaissance collection, I have spotted that I have at least a couple more bases of ECW/TYW Pike & Shotte than I actually need for any conceivable FoGR army I might wish to use in future... who'd a thunk it?!
So, knowing I have plenty of spares, I decided to test-base some Pike & Shot, using "second line" figures who won't honestly get an outing anyway just to see what they might look like.
It's an "Impetus-style" basing methodology !
Not sure that having 3 ranks of each is entirely right, but as a first experiment its a pretty decent look I think.
17 Apr 2017 at 2:19pm
Competition Ancients in the UK - The state of play, 1 year on
Almost a year ago I wrote a blog post on the relative popularity of various "competition" Ancients sets in the UK, which, unusually for this sort of thing was based on actual analysis of real numbers rather than just a subjective TMP-esque mumble of personal preference and "down my club we think this...".
At the time, FoG Ancients was the largest set by some distance but had declined from it's peak of a few years previous, the popularity of DBMM had been flat for some time and a new set L'Art de la Guerre (which you'll have seen on this site no doubt!) was just finishing its first full year of being played in the UK.
Well, how does that all look now, and what's changed in the UK competition scene?
DBMM
A year ago it proved a little tricky compiling accurate data for the numbers of entries for DBMM events, however since then the truly excellent DBMM rankings website at http://partridges.org.uk/rankings/ has been revitalised and updated and seems to have gotten back on top of capturing pretty much everything that happens in the UK DBMM-wise.
Last time around the total number of DBMM competition entrants in the previous year stood at somewhere around 90 players - including 11 based overseas - entering 17 different events (counting those events with both 25mm and 15mm periods as one). The total number of entries stood at 326, or 314 excluding the overseas players
In the last 12 months that number hasn't really changed appreciably, with 17 events again making up the calendar featuring 84 different players. This year just 5 players based overseas have played in UK events basically representing a smaller Irish contingent at Britcon 2016, leaving a UK-based pool of 79 active players - exactly the same as ...read more.
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