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[Muskets and Tomahawks] A start on my Rangers
Did some work on my Rangers this weekend as part of a friendly painting competition with some friends. I don’t really have much time right now to show all the pics or do much of a commentary on them,...
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[Bolt Action / Maurice] Hit and Miss
Just a quick photo-update of a couple of games I played recently. The first is a Bolt Action game in which Markus absolutely destroyed my Gerbil Herders, the second is a Maurice game in which my...
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[Muskets and Tomahawks] Rangers completed
Another bare minimum post I’m afraid, but wanted to add these pics of the (just about) finished product. I’ll be basing them properly (rocks, tufts, static grass, and more / proper painting of the...
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[Muskets & Tomahawks] Epic battle
Managed to get a game of Muskets and Tomahawks in last night against Thorsteinn, a blue on blue game of my British Rangers versus his British mixture of Regulars and Irregulars, 400 points each, and...
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[Muskets and Tomahawks] A close battle, again
Got a doubles game of M&T in at the club the other night, 200 points of my British Rangers and 200 points of British Regulars versus 200 points of French Regulars and 200 points of assorted French...
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[Misc] A rumination on figure scale and battle size.
There have been a few surveys floating around recently (the Survey Monkey one for WSS comes to mind but there have been others too in the last couple of months) asking about figure scale preferences,...
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[Sword and Spear] A Review
Played a short game of these new rules the other day, splitting my Impetus HYW English army into two, one side being the English, and the other side portraying the French, and so I thought I’d do a...
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[Sword and Spear] AAR: Hundred Years War
I had a game of Sword and Spear against Ernie this week to teach him the rules (and to drum up some more interest in these rules – we had a couple of people watching, and a few of the club members have...
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[Sword and Spear] AAR: Hundred Years War II
I umpired another game of Sword and Spear as a demo last week, with Alex taking on the role of the French and Thorsteinn taking on the role of the English. As with the other games I’ve played or...
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[Sword and Spear] A Loss and (at last!) a Win!
I got a couple of games of S&S in over the last few weeks, the first a 351 points HYW noobfest playing Anthony at the old club, the second a 500 point English vs Mongols noobfest against Dan. I...
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Bluecher early start, and a Sword and Spear photo montage.
Did a few stands of 6mm Napoleonic French for the last few weekends, partly in readiness for the release of Bluecher next year from Sam Mustafa (author or Lasalle, Grand Armee, Might and Reason,...
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[Sword and Spear] Another outing for the Hundred Years War armies
Had a magnificent game of Sword and Spear with my old mate Ernie last night at Meeplemart, and it was by far the closest game I’ve played. We used the standard forces I’ve been using for these forces,...
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[Misc] The State of the Lemming
Time for a yearly round up, I think. I’m splitting this into Painting, Games Played, Future Projects and Misc. Painting At the start of the year I painted up my 15mm Rangers for Musket and Tomahawks,...
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Bluecher early start part 2: More French Infantry.
Been doing some more work on my Napoleonic French for the last couple of weekends, and managed to get another four brigades done. The next four are glued to painting sticks and undercoating is...
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[Sword and Spear] Yet Another Hundred Years War AAR
Had yet another HYW bash this week, introducing Dave to the game. He’d played once before, but that was a while ago. Once more I split the forces into the usual lists, with some of my English proxied...
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[Bluecher] A review
Bluecher, Sam Mustafa’s new game, is out now, and after a short test game, I thought I’d give my opinion of these grand scale Napoleonic rules. First of all, some background: I first bought Sam’s Grand...
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[Sword and Spear] More Mongols vs HYW English
Had another bash against Dan’s Mongols with my HYW English last week. Dan was looking for revenge after our initial outing, when he was soundly defeated. This time he came a little closer, but the...
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[Forged in Battle] War and Empire kickstarter figures, a review
I backed the War and Empire kickstarter campaign by Forged in Battle a while ago, which was very successful, and ended up with quite a lot of figures as a result which arrived a month or two ago. Since...
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[Sword and Spear] Photomontage time!
Had a few battles of the last few weeks that I haven’t had time to write up properly, so instead thought I’d do a captioned photo post. I also got in a game of Bluecher with Ernie, but since that was...
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[Longstreet / Sword and Spear]
Just a quick update to put up some pics of stuff I’ve been working on recently. Well, sort of recently. I did the artillery and cavalry a good few months back now, but only got around to gluing them to...
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