Tuesday 19 February 2019

ADLG Communal Italians off to Burton 2019

Andy and I are teaming up for Badcon in Burton upon Trent.

The competition period is 300 points any book 1251—1500AD
So, we've decided to go for something fun but with a lot of options.
We've gone for Papal Communal Italian.
Andy is our master of puns and come up with the general names
Army is lead by Pope Giltiparti
The knight command is lead by Eduardo Crilli
Alberto Bertorelli will be leading the 2nd foot command
Tanquard de Limoncello will be leading the foot assault command.

The Runners & Riders

Lots of scary armies, so, let's see how well we go.

ADLD Runners and Riders.
1 PAUL DAWSON & PAUL JOHNSTON                   ALBANIAN 1452AD
2 GORDON JAMIESON & DAVID ALLEN                 CASTILIAN 1480AD
3 STEVE ROYLE & JASON SCOTT                          AZTEC 1500AD
4 RICHARD CASE & DAVE SAUNDERS                  YUAN CHINESE 1293AD
5 SIMON LeRAY MEYER & ANDY FINKEL               PAPAL ITALIAN 1283AD
6 ANDY GILBERT & MARK DUDMAN                       KHMER 1252AD
7 NIK SHARP & DAVE HANDLEY                             KHMER 1251AD
8 ANDY WALLACE & MARTIN ROUTH                    HYW FRENCH 1400AD
9 TONY PARKIN & CHRIS TONGE                          INDONESIAN 1400AD
10 ANDREW & MATHEW MARTIN                           SERBIAN 1381AD
11 ALAN COLE & PAUL CARTER                            HYW FRENCH 1429AD
12 MICK HOOD & ROB ASHLEY                              VENETIAN 1495AD
13 ADRIAN STEER & ANDY McKAY                        FRENCH ORDONNANCE 1479AD
14 MALCOLM GORDON & JOHN EDWARDS         HUNGARIAN 1442AD
15 GRAEME CARROLL & ROBERT MIDDLEMIST  FRENCH ORDONNANCE 1481AD
16 FREDRIK BODIN & FREDRIC BOHM                  SWISS 1476AD
17 KEVIN JOHNSON & ROB TAYLOR                      SWISS 1401AD
18 MICHAEL BENNETT & COLIN SHARPE              YUAN CHINESE 1292AD
19 HUW PEREGRINE-YOUNG & MARTYN BOLTON  HYW ENGLISH 1346AD

I am Ashurbanipal king of the world, king of Assyria


Now for something different!

I went to the British Museum to see their special event on Assyria.

I don't know much detail about the pre biblical period so it was a great starter into this incredible period.







A cuniform "book", carved into stone.  The size of the font is really small



To give colour to these objects, the museum used a projector.


Showing the power of the King and his acquaducts




One of the wall plaques showing a battle