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10 Sep 2017 at 11:42amPatras 2018 !!!!
Just heard some brilliant news - the Greek wargaming community have now taken up L'Art de la Guerre, and are planning on bringing back the near-legendary Patras tournament in 2018 !!!
It's now more than a dozen years since myself and a crew of Central Londoners made the trek across the Peloponnese to play in the Patras DBM tournament.... The epic report is still on this site and available here.
And here's the equally epic lunch!
The local clubs are looking at dates at the moment - as soon as it's firmed up we're on!
12 Aug 2017 at 7:00pm
Army lists from my 6 opponents at The Worlds now published on the Wiki
The armies fielded by my opponents in the recent "The Worlds" L'Art de la Guerre event in Salamanca are now on the ADLG Wiki:
They were, in order of play
2 Aug 2017 at 8:53pm
Carlos Vasquez and the Oiran
Carlos Vasquez is literally the new Hotness in Malifaux, a tanky Henchman with some exuberant flaming attacks.
I picked up the model, together with a box of Oiran on a recent trip to play at the English GT at Wayland Games, looking to expand my Showgirl crew.
Carlos is a slightly tricky but rewarding model to assemble and paint - the trickiness comes in whether or not to pin him. I did... find out why on this gallery
The Oiran are more straightforward, with some fiddly small pieces. Learn about my choice of colour scheme here.
27 Jul 2017 at 8:43pm
What an Atmosphere! The Rus get in some ADLG action
Hot on the heels of The BHGS Challenge comes Dogs of War, in the excellent Bristol Independent Gaming Centre.
This was a Dark Ages & Early Medieval themed L'Art de la Guerre event, and in keeping with my efforts to try and get as many of my long-forgotten armies on table as possible under ADLG I had elected to wheel out the Rus - with a Viking ally.
The "Wall of Spears" was a new thing for me to try in L'Art de la Guerre competition gaming, so the big question was whether that was because everyone else had missed the tactical potential of such an army, or because it was a bit pants and I hadn't worked that out yet.
See how the men from the Ukraine did in these 5 rather linear battle reports!
18 Jul 2017 at 12:00pm
Aircraft photos from RIAT 2017
The Royal International Air Tattoo is one of the world's best airshows.
The weather this year wasn't great, but I still managed to get some half-decent photos of some of the aircraft:
Belgian Sea King Air Sea Rescue
Italian Tornado
Patrouille Suisse - F5E
Apache
F22 Raptor
The USAF Thunderbirds
14 Jul 2017 at 11:49pm
Two Armies, Two Podcasts...
With two L'Art de la Guerre podcasts now firmly under my belt it feels like an opportune moment to release them fully into the interweb by actually telling people that they exist.
Ideal to listen to whilst painting your own figures, in these two Podcasts (also available on YouTube, with pictures) are where you can learn from people who are far better players than I am about how to design a Ghaznavid or a Sassanid army list for L'Art de la Guerre.
The Podcasts are available to listen to via Podbean, also iTunes (honestly!) and are linked to from my L'Art de la Guerre page.
4 Jul 2017 at 11:01pm
Massive Heeds, Sausages and Tie Fighters - ADLG from the NEC.
With this year's BHGS Challenge taking place in the galaxy-sized open spaces of Birmingham's NEC expo centre, the first army to be dropped to the planetary surface was also a brand new to the table outfit - the much-trailed Sassanid Persians.
Resplendent in their new livery, the "Sausages", as they have been affectionately known to generations of wargamers were certainly Feeling the Force as they deployed an army built around a massive Death Star, surrounded by horsemen with Massive Heeds (or those 'lightbulb' hats to be more precise).
To find out what happened, the best bet is to see if your local protocol droid will help you translate each of these 5 match reports into something sensible.
You can also listen to a podcast at the end of Battle Report # 4 to help you learn how to build a good Sassanid list in ADLG - which is much easier than having to ask a couple of favours from some guys who look just like Tuskan Raiders...
May the Sausages Be With You..!
25 Jun 2017 at 5:12pm
Saga - the return...
Having not played Saga in just over 2 years I wheeled out the Vikings (in a no Cross & Crescent allowed) event in Reading today - and demonstrated how important it is to practice, finishing with nul points out of 3 games.
Admittedly there were times when I didn't have the rub of the green - facing Jomsvikings and their movement-denying Wrath tricks in a scenario where you had to move your troops around to occupy table quarters, and then a previously unseen internet-only Anglo-Danish monstrosity which had three units of un-killable fully armoured Warriors who I had to try and cut through to Kill the Leader... although forgetting I had the option to re-roll 29 dice in one attack also played a part!
Anyway, the mostly-Foundry figures got out of the foam padding and onto the table, so that bit was a success.
Here are some photos of the boys in action (click on any image to see the full size version)
11 Jun 2017 at 2:08pm
15mm 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...
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14 Jul 2017 at 7:57pm
Ghaznavids with Ethan
In this episode the near-legendary East Coast gamer Ethan Zorick discussed how he puts together an effective Ghaznavid list for L?Art de la Guerre....
3 Jul 2017 at 11:27pm
Sassanid Persian List Building in L?Art de la Guerre
A surprisingly informative and educational podcast this week, in which I interview Richard Case, current UK #1 player and winner of the BHGS Challe...
13 May 2017 at 11:08pm
The Road Back from Campaign
In this episode I?m joined by Dave Dave and Aussie Simon as we talk about ADLG lists past and present, as well as some genereal rambling about FoGR...
5 Dec 2016 at 6:28pm
Elephants & Tapas - Madaxeman.com live from the (tapas bar) table-top in Spain
In this episode the usual gang of inexpert commentators, me, Aussie Simon, Dave ?The Cheese-Winner? Saunders and Peter ?Midnight Streaker? Webb con...
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