Painting Progress

15 x Viking Bd(O) - various manufacturers

On the minus side this leaves me 5 elements short (for my Welsh army) but I am awaiting a delivery from Essex of 20 figures. 

On the plus side, however, I have 12 x Viking Irr Bd(F) elements almost completed.  These can be used as Viking raiders or back ranks of Wb(F).

Also nearing completion are 7 elements of Roman cavalry.


Round Up

Saturday 14th July 2018 - Horbury Library

Postscript - even in the two 'modified' games the Romans failed to win.


Monday 16th July 2018 - WDW

DBMM - Hindu Indian v Early Byzantines
Wings of War - WW2 aerial combat - Brits v Germans
Square Bashing - Grmans v Brits 1915
DBM - Sicilian v Islamic Berbers - a damn close run thing.  With one bound to go the enemy only had to lose one more element for it to rout.  We needed two and a half.  Guess what happened!


Monday 23rd July 2018 - Al's Place

DBM - Thebans v Phokians.  At the drawing of stumps we had lost two EEs and the opposition none.  A really booooooring draw.


Sunday 29th July 2018 - Halifax

Another visit to the model shop purchasing only one box of plastics:

Strelets M071 - British Light Infantry in Egypt.

Bearing in mind that the French only fought the British, on land, at the tail end of the Egyptian war.   I probably don't need that many of these figures. 

The 'Tarleton' type helmets were worn by the British Legion during the American revolution so I can see where the surplus is likely to end up. For the mounted arm I can always use Mexican cavalry from Imex.

Gad Sir! The Heat!

Getting on with the vikings but the heat makes life difficult in so many ways.  Still I have managed to fit in some wargaming activities.



Monday 2nd July 2018 - WDW

DBA v2.2 - two games between Tim & Jim using medievals (basically WoR & French Ordinance).  Honours were even.

DBM 3.2 - Early Crusader v Syrian (an actual historical match-up). No Chris again as he's glued to the box (England were playing).   

I had the crusader left where a flank march turned up on the second bound.  Al thought that the game was over and that we would be rolled up.  Robin Hood must have been in our ranks as I fought off the enemy horse in spite of being 'sandwiched' a number of times.  Al also shot off many of the attacking Wb(F) in the centre. 

Inevitably the Wb eventually broke through our Sp (so C-in-C's command gone).  Our glorious leader desperately charged the Wb (with some side supports) breaking that command.  So a 6:4 defeat for us but a good game.


Sunday 8th July 2018 - Halifax

In spite of the queues for the Antiques Road Show I managed to get into the model shop.  Wisely I had let the train take the strain as parking can be difficult at the best of times.  Anyway..I purchase 3 boxes from (what seems to be) a dwindling stockpile of 1/72nd figures.

Imex 515 - Mexican Cavalry at the Alamo - this will join my small stock for this period.

Strelets M068 - French Line Infantry in Egypt - much needed opposition for the Turks.  Very difficult to remove from the sprue resulting in a number of breakages.

HaT 8130 Sumerian Chariots - 3 chariots in a box big enough for 6. 


Monday 9th July 2018 - WDW

"Forager" - Napoleonic card-driven skirmish game
"Wings of War" - WW2 Brits v Germans
Sc-Fi in 6mm - Andy's rules

DBM - Hatrene (Arabo-Aramaean) v Early Tamil Indian - Al's shooting wasn't so good this time and his command eventually broke.  However...all 3 Hatrene generals had managed to inflict sufficient casualties to break the Tamil army.


Saturday 14th July 2018 - Horbury Library

More outreach games - this time Romans v Barbarians (Celts).  I played 2 games (of 6mm) turning the Roman flanks both times.  When I left the game had been 'fudged' with the Romans now able to occupy the entire ridge.

The Postman Cometh

Tuesday 26th June 2018

Received a delivery from Alternative Armies:

1 x VNT27  Coatl Winged Serpent
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