Received a delivery from Alternative Armies:
3 x ARC7 Arab Camel Spearmen
3 x ME8a Welsh Long Spear and Shield
1 x Druidess
I have been looking at the Winged Serpent for some time now but baulked at the £5 p&p charge. The 10% discount on all figures (plus a free bonus figure) pushed me over the edge to place an order.
Coatl Winged Serpent - in 4 parts - body, 2 x wings, crest. This is destined for a HotT army (Aztec-ish) - maybe as a god or a behemoth. Very nice sculpt (look on their website for a painted version).
Arab camel spearmen - OK - too many flash lines and unimaginative pose. Will probably not buy any more of these but stick to Peter Pig.
Welsh long spear and shield - useful upright figures that will provide greater variety in my growing Welsh army.
Druidess - plastic figure - nice sculpt - maybe for a HotT army as an ally.
Service was quick and the figures well packed. The stamps amounted to £1.40. Given the excessively high charge for p&p I can't see me using their mail order service again - pity!
Round Up
Saturday 16th June 2018 - WDW
Age of Eagles - Durnstein 1805 (NE Austria) - Chris to provide report.
Monday 25th June 2018 - WDW
DBM - Syrian v Wars of the Roses (Lancs) - a close run game with the Lancastrians winning.
Spearhead - Dutch & British v Russians (near future).
Germania Magna - tile & card game. A frustrating game. I struggled to pick up warriors for most of the game and when I did I no longer had the money to activate them. Maybe it would be better with more players and/or tweaking the gold & tribal cards set-up.
Saturday 30th June 2018 - Gt. Houghton
More DBA v3.0 gmes:
(1) Dacians v Gauls (0:4 loss) - we both made mistakes on this game but mine were fatal.
(2) Early Sumerian v Zagros Mountaineers (3:4 win)
(3) Umbrians v Samnites (4:0 loss)
(4) Belisarian Byzantines v Italian Ostrogothic (0:5 win) - in this game the infantry (bar one Wb) were mere observers. Ian attacked with double-ranked Lh but they failed to break my cavalry.
(5) War of the Roses (Lambert Simnel) v French Ordinance (4:1 loss) - my single victory was from shooting. Otherwise once the Kn got in it was carnage. With Kn quick-killing everything I had there was no way to win. In theory Kn are killed on a draw - there were none.
Incidentally - TA & Co have three more DBA v3.0 games on their site:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbRAe5rGG3lYIHXFgkrC3wQ
Feudal Spanish v Fanatic Berber
Koguryo Korean v Tang Chinese
Hindu Indian v Rajputs
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