Britcon 2017

The Elephants WON!!!!!

The mad experiment of the Elephants worked, much to my surprise.  It was fun to see peoples expression when I deployed 10 elephants.  

End result was three big wins and three winning draws.  It does help when you have an army of 18 battle groups, it allows you to loose a few. 

At Britcon we were trying out the v1.9 rules that have been developed on the forum.  The only deviation from the forum rules were the points cost for mounted.  

Game 1 vs Stephen's Burmese.  

The two elephant armies line up against each other.  22 elephants on the table, 35 battle groups.

the table did seem to be sagging in the middle......

Stephen deployed with a mass of elephants on one side, plus a flank march.  Just what I needed, cav in my rear....

The Elephants advance!

I had my elephants more spread out, Stephen went with the big hammer option

All the elephants charge, after the bow shooting proved to be ineffective

Somehow much to everyones surprise, the foot held and proceeded to break all the elephants in a few turns.  Once done, the rest of the Burmese were rapidly wrapped up.

Game 2 vs Keith's Japanese

The great clash of a Vegetable Jalfrezzi with Garlic Naan vs Sushi

Both armies looked at each other and went for the simple tactic, line up and advance.
Who would be the winner?  Elephants or Armoured foot with Spears?

Elephants!!

Keith deployed a waterway to lock down a flank, which worked for me as well.  My army was designed to fill the entire deployment zone and then the flanks.

 The Japanese camp

 Japanese foot, all very pretty.

 The lines advance, shooting not proving very effective, the Samurai had armour.

 The two lines crash together.
The Samurai found that spear is good, Elephants is better.

 2nd to last game
More Samurai
Lynette had a different composition to Keith, she went for more average troops, but a lot more of them.
17 battle groups worth

Lynette was the only opponent to actually kill any elephants

the result was a winning draw to the Elephants, but if we had a had a few more turns, I was in a world of trouble with Samurai charging my troops in the rear.

Britcon 2017 R&R

The Britcon Runners and Riders has been posted.

Very different theme from the usual, two Elephant armies!

ADLG in Salamanca

The CLWC mob descended on mass to Salamanca for the ADLG competition, part of the larger "Worlds" competition.  We were just one of several competitions, there was a large showing for Flames of War, various Warhammer options and Kings of War.

I ended up somewhere mid table, three wins, 2 breaks and a draw, so, not bad for my first open.

My Feudal Germans got rolled mostly by the elephant armies, I didn't have anything to stop them stomping me.

Few night time photos of the old town

The old town centre, at 1 in the morning. 

Random Elephant artwork in the centre of the town.  Every few minutes a cloud of steam would appear out of it's bum.

Now for a few games!

Game 1 against Inakki, who ultimately won the competition.  

He was using Gaznavids, basically, Elephants and Heavy Cav/Bow

I tried to turn my line to minimise the impact.  Once the elephants crashed in, my spear went down very rapidly.

Game 2, first win vs Ming Chinese

They had elephants, which I wasn't expecting.

Luckily, I managed to avoid the Elephants and slam my knights into the foot, breaking them before the Elephants rampaged thru me.

Fedual Germans

After many years playing & painting FoGR, it's been good to get back to painting my medievals.  Yes yes, I know, there is a theme going on here.

I bought a bunch of Donnington miniatures at Salute and have been busy painting them up.

The knights are from Mirlington, who I've had for years.  I stripped them as they were painted rather badly.

I've been given some tips on my basing from some of my club mates and I've given them a go.

The generals

Donnington General

Foot Knights
I'll be using these as either foot knights or 2HW

 Corvus Belli Spearmen

Knights