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18 Jul 2017 at 12:00pmAircraft 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...
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
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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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