Wednesday, 2 August 2017

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





ADLG in Salamanca

The Spanish are running the worlds this year in Salamanca and the Central London mob are descending on mass for the ADLG competition.

It's an open competition and I have no idea how I'll go.  I'm hoping for mid table.

The comp runs over three days and we are hoping for some tapas and red wine time.

I'm looking forward to catching up with the Italian team, didn't get to talk much to them at the Belgium comp as I was running FoGR.

El Creator will be there (Herve Caille).

First game will be a historical matchup.  Only two elephant armies, which surprises me

This is the runners and riders (six more to come)

First Name Surname Country Army nº Army 
Serge Adeline Belgium 252 Byzantine Besieged 
Christophe Gouneau France 265 Ming Chinese 
Lionel Martinez France 64 Early Achaemenid Persian 
Lionel Morvan France 224 Condotta 
Frédéric Turpin France 187 Later Crusader 
Hervé Caille France 260 Delhi Sultanate 
Maximilien Gouneau France 263 Yuan Chinese 
Ostap Bender France 128 Nikephorian Byzantine 
Jean-Yves Cassas France 236 War of the Roses 
Philippe Gerbet France 234 French Ordnance 
Frédéric Duffau France 126 Maurikian Byzantine 
Thierry Baylac France 234 French Ordnance 
J.F. Navarro Spain 183 Feudal German 
Rafa Tortosa Spain 263 Yuan Chinese 
Iñaki Iraizoz Spain 193 Ghaznavid 
Quino Ruiz Spain 106 Palmyran 
Victor Catala Spain 86 Middle Imperial Roman 
Salvador Senabre Spain 148 Feudal Spanish 
Elio Cubiles Spain 263 Yuan Chinese 
Oscar Riveiro Spain 106 Palmyran 
Roberto Riveiro Spain 133 Arabs in North Africa 
Jose Mas Spain 88 Gallic 
Alonso Riego Spain 19 Gulf States and Oman 
Dave Allen UK 251 Ottoman Empire 
Dave Saunders UK 40 Alexander the Great 
Gordon Jamieson UK 181 Communal Italian 
Howard Gray UK 187 Later Crusader 
Ian Mackay UK 109 Sassanid Persian 
Peter Webb UK 193 Ghaznavid 
Richard Young UK 224 Condotta 
Simon LeRay-Meyer UK 183 Feudal German 
Tim Porter UK 40 Alexander the Great 
Clive McLeod UK 241 Medieval Polish 
Marc Crotteau USA 128 Nikephorian Byzantine 
Francesco Berucci Italy 210 Samurai 
Stefano Salvaderi Italy 224 Condotta 
Lorenzo Marinaro Italy 224 Condotta 
Stefano D'Addino Italy 121 Tamil Indian 
Fernando Sousa Portugal 79 Classical Indian 
Orlando Almeida Portugal 39 Alexandrian Macedonian 



Friday, 30 June 2017

Podcasts! I'm on one


Over on the Madaxeman site, you can hear me ramble with Tim and various others on lots of things wargaming.

In some podcasts, wine may be involved.

:-)

http://madaxeman.podbean.com


Worlds 2017

It's almost July and time to think about the Worlds.

This year, I'll be joining the central London mob as part of our pre Brexit tour and joining them in Salamanca for ADLG.

They had us as wine and sunshine.

We don't expect to do well, we are aiming for mid table this time, last year, the CLWC got spanked very hard at the Worlds in Belgium.

It's an open period, allowing for two armies lists, so, like most people, it will be an anti elephant list and one for everything else.

I've got no idea what to bring.



Rules : 

L’Art de la Guerre - 2014 (V3) with all clarifications and official errata at: http://www.artdelaguerre.fr/fr/regles.php 

The umpire’s rulings will be final. 

We will use the standard scoring system found in the rules. 

Army lists : 

All army lists are authorized. The lists will not exceed 200 points. Players will be able to send in two versions of the same list without any restrictions on the date or geographical origin, After announcing your list to your opponent, both players will place on the table the version of the list they will use before the initiative die roll. After all ambushes are revealed and flank marches have arrived, both players will check the other’s list. All mistakes will be penalized by the umpire. 

In order to make list checking easier, please use the following website to create your army list (allies in the last command):  http://www.littlearmydesigner.com/adg/fr 

Please indicate in the “troop description” the description as found in the army list in the rulebook. 

All lists must be sent to the umpire by Monday 10th July 2017 at:  adgworlds2017@gmail.com 

On 15th July, the list of participants and their lists will be published. In order to encourage players to respect the deadline, after July 15th all published army lists will be considered reserved and no longer available for late entries. 


Monday, 1 May 2017

Campaign 2017 - ADLG

I'll be playing in the ADLG competition this year at Campaign.

I'm joining up with a new team members from the CWLC to form Team Z!

I don't expect to do well.

the theme for my period is quite tight, just five armies

I'm in Period 3 and will be running my Feudal Germans.


Theme 1.   The coming of  the Sea Peoples  1260 -1150 BC

  12. Early Libyan     
  14. NKE                 
  21. Mitanni     
  24. Sea Peoples 
  25. Philistine 
  30. Mycenaean      
   
Theme 2. The end of Alexander’s Eastern Empire 130 – 55 BC

 46. Graeco – Bactrian                   
 46.  Indo Greek 
76.   Skythian                                 
79.   Classical- Indian
102. Parthian           
107.  Kushan
117. Han-Chinese

Theme 3. The Campaigns of Frederick Barbarossa 1152–1190 AD

183.  Feudal German
180.  Sicilian Norman                           
181.  Communal Italian                    
185. Cilician Armenian                       
195  Seljuk Turk not eastern


Wednesday, 12 April 2017

Roll Call 2017 Results

The Swedes came, saw and almost conquered.


I managed three big wins, only loosing to Stephen.  Stephen and I were having a good old punch up with the Swedes slowly beating on the Swiss when a general allowing himself to be killed.  The resulting chaos saw 5 battle groups of foot all go disrupted or fragmented in one turn, which turned the tide to the Swiss.




Just a bit more Sabaton to enjoy, Carolus Rex


Sunday, 2 April 2017

Roll Call 2017, release the Swedes!

Roll Call 2017 is up soon and I'll be playing in the FoGR 25mm period.

Little sad to see that the 15mm FoGR period got cancelled as there was only one entrant.

So, I'm bringing out my 25mm Later Swedes again for a run. 

I may be listening to some Sabaton to get inspired!