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om wargaming and paintng musing by a random man bolt action acw rules home hex campaign rules land and freedom rules acw bolt action rules monday 7 october 2024 beer and pretzels it s been 18 months since i last posted this is not a proper return to the bloggersphere yet lots has happened in that time mainly i have taken early retirement and can devote more time to my glorious hobby the main purpose for this post is some advertising me dave and angus have written a set of wargames rules for vietnam war called the liberation of south vietnam they are live on wargames vault for the bargain price of 2 99 we have website https beerandpretzels co uk and a facebook page https www facebook com profile php id 61566511514078 this is our 1st proper go at writing and publishing rules so it would be nice if you have a look and gave us a like cheers martin posted by martinc at 22 07 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels beer and pretzels monday 3 april 2023 new games room and a christening battle saturday i went over to matt s for another blood in the sand battle it was a great battle and i took rubbish photos but matt s report can be found here this morning some men in aa van came and removed some surplus furniture from my house including the double bed from the spare room this means i can now play big battles so i fought one the table is 6ft x 4ft and folds up it was made by stig and given to me bren cut in in half to fit it in my car and then i stuck it back together i will be eternally grateful the mat is an oatmeal coloured 6 single bed sheet with some spray paint for texture the sides are carthaginians mainly numidians vs republican romans lots of heavy infantry vs lots of lighter troops and missle troops even more heavy iinfantry on the roman left the carthaginan centre is very strong with heavy spearmen and elephants in kings of war elephants are mad hard so we ve tweaked the rules to make then hard but easier to rout so they smash in 3 turns of attritional combat the carthaginians have the upper hand on the left the romans are winning but they are dead everywhere else crushing carthaginian victory hannibal would be proud in other news i ve bitten the bullet and bought a 28mm warlord napoleonic russian starter army should keep my busy for a while posted by martinc at 23 38 10 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 20 march 2023 13th analogue hobbies painting challenge conclusion another winter painting figs for the challenge has finished and i painted 4643 6 points of figures equivalent of 928 28mm infantry figures i finished an honourable 3rd although it is not about painting the most number of figures it is just about painting for fun 928 figures seems a lot but actually my challenge this year was dominated terrain you get 20pts for 6 cube and i needed a lot for an upcoming massive 48ftx6ft game therefore i needed jungle and some really massive hills to do justice to the table some 10mm spanish buildings for scw 1st massive hill all are 6 foot long this one only 3 inches high jungle made from one of those plastic pivet balls from poundland underground subway station in a file box bigger hill all 3 made from kingspan and this was was 1 2 and 3 inch thick sections final hill my figure painting varied from 10mm renaissance polish to 75mm individual figures 28mm subway car 10mm 7 years war scottish army imaginary army no plan to make it any bigger but useful for fighting ian and ian s french and russian armies french trialleurs algerien from hlbs very big 28mm figures polish winged hussars i finished the whole polish army but barely started the ottomans 75mm barbarian king from mr lees dwarf general i scratch built the rider i painted quite a few dwarfs these are boar riders female dwarf rifle troop gyrocopters i have a plan for dwarfs in lustria i have jungle and the fantasy version of vietnam appeals i finished my acw armies 10 file boxes altogether these are the last unit the 3rd new jersey finally some montagnards for vietnam hope you enjoyed this brief review of this years work there were loads more i m off for a rest now posted by martinc at 16 36 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 19 february 2023 hail caesar action been a while yesterday a wandered over to bren s shed to play a dark ages battle bren was fielding an anglo saxon army and me and stig the picts stig arrived late so we started with out him and more importantly his troops so i was outnumbered about 4 3 at the start in hc picts are ok but all my troops were only as good as bren s worse troops and he hada division s worth of better troops the battlefield hedges across the centre a crossable river and a couple of roads all of these were to be vitally important i set up 2 divisions of pict warriors on one side of the road and one on the far side i had some javelin armed light cavalry on the road i looked a little light on the left bren was tooled up on both flanks and stationed all his good troops in the centre my last battle consisted of me rolling 1s for 5 hours and getting pummelled would this continue yip this was the 1st of 5 double 1s i rolled in the 1st 3 turns luckily in hc double 1 is a fantastic command roll so i got to move quickly and got to the hedge line and river 1st the plan was to hold there and let bren feed his men into the meat grinder he duly obliged in the centre and my picts broke a unit of huscarls in the 1st battle and forced his other elite units to retreat he tried crossing the river on my right and pretty much had the same fate i had terrible break rolls all game and get pushed back a lot but i had spectacular melee dice and chopped him up enough that he couldn t exploit any retreat that i needed to make bren also didn t occupy the road and my light cavalry had free reign here peppering the troops either side this basically kept his elite troops at bay and breaking up his charges meanwhile stig failed to activate his division when he finally arrived then they activated and advanced and then they blundered and retreated again finally they got forward to support my very thin line then his mum phoned and told him he had to go home and take his toys with him so stig s useless division was replaced with fewer units from the casulaties box i advanced and forced bren back from the road at this point bren s army was pretty much shattered and mine mainly intact so we called it 1st time bren has been beaten with the saxons and 1st time my picts have actually fought as picts they won we got the rules wrong to bren s advantage and we will play again overall a good game and good to get back to winning ways posted by martinc at 18 45 7 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels hail caesar wednesday 8 february 2023 siege of vienna polish army i ve been painting a 10mm polish army for the siege of vienna for several years now well i painted some a few years ago and painted the rest last week cossacks more cossacks winged hussars some more winged hussars artillery command dragoons i m sure i have pictures of the other units but can t find them so you will have to make do the whole army the army with infantry in the centre and cavalry on the wings mixed cav on one wing infantry in the centre polish infantry is pretty rubbish and tended to hold the centre while the cavalry went off and had fun the other flank the figures are based for kings of war with 4 bases being a regiment however i can easily scale up and make 2 bases a regiment to give me an army twice the size now i have to paint the ottomans i have none painted so give me few weeks posted by martinc at 20 24 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels poles polish siege of vienna older posts home subscribe to posts atom recent posts beer and pretzels it s been 18 months since i last posted this is not a proper return to the bloggersphere yet lots has happened in that time mainly camelphracts god i m bored i have a huge amount of marking to do about 2 weeks worth so weekend break is off as it s already late still enou new games room and a christening battle saturday i went over to matt s for another blood in the sand battle it was a great battle and i took rubbish photos but matt s rep the whopper or how i played an epic wargame last weekend dave and i wandered down to scarborough to play sands of the sudan on gerry s ridiculously large wargames tables we were p austrian hussars and an armoured car i think this will be the trend for the next few months i have loads of 10mm austrians to paint and other random stuff to paint as the mood my blog list one man and his brushes back of beyond railway militia and cheka the latest top up for my bolos are a top up of eureka factory militia to use fir my railway guys and some various smg armed prtisan guys to use for my 4 hours ago fencing frog naval theater i m happy to share the brand new website for naval theater the rule set i use to fight battles during the second world war https www navaltheatergame c 2 days ago brushes and bases back to the brushes 421 finishing off two elements of thracian cavalry for dba or adlg the element to the right you the screen as viewed is one of the options for the general 3 days ago don t throw a 1 sharpe practice test game 1 the retreat from moscow the rejects got together over the weekend for our first ever game of sharpe practice as you may be aware lee and myself have been busy boys in paint 3 days ago wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller the blue puttees i recently started to play wwi skirmish games and like most wargamers i like to bring my own troops to the table luckily the game scouts out require 3 days ago wargamesinthedungeon must try harder since my trip down south i have been inordinately busy mainly with some household maintenance activities whilst the hobby activity has continued bloggin 1 week ago the analogue hobbies painting challenge the awards for challenge xvi like so many prizes it s the anticipation of the opening that s so exciting ahem speaking of prizes welcome to the wrap up of the 16th edition 3 weeks ago working on the lead mountain napoleonic portuguese 6mm first up with the deep dives is the portuguese units completed during ahpc xvi all are adler miniatures a few overview shots the the cacadores l 1 month ago dulce et decorum est painting 12 imperial snow troopers and becky this week i managed to finish 12 imperial snow troopers and 1 imperial officer for star wars legion i m waaaay behind this year as my work decided that 2 months ago the single handed admiral captain s log sms emden part iii when we last saw sms emden she was tied up in a thai cove when three british warships were sighted here s the rough sketch map that i received from o 4 months ago 28mm victorian warfare risen from the dead i shall spare you all the overlong preamble regarding a lack of balance in my life suffice to say that we are essentially well and i am still pootling 6 months ago da gobbo s grotto wargaming blog the asrai awake hi all i ve been super busy trying to prep for an old world tournament coming up in july which has meant that i ve not been concentrating on other pr 11 months ago mad tin hatter still still alive hey folks despite my previous good intentions blogging got away from me again that s not to say i haven t been busy with various things just rather l 1 year ago wargaming girl salute 2025 ok it s two days late but here is my photo round up of salute 2025 you can also take it as proof of life given that i haven t posted here since last 1 year ago thoughts of a depressive diplomatist rpg a day 2024 day 3 most often played day 3 most often played rpg well i hate to be boring but it s a short answer old school essentials it s a system i ve been playing since it 1 year ago the blog with no name bounding fire tournament 2023 prizes this year the organisers of the asl tournament bounding fire have decided to broaden the prize table and so went for smaller dioramas with the theme bein 2 years ago lair of the uber geek terrain workshop sorted at least for now well i ve managed to clean out the terrain workshop sadly the bulk of the debris consisted of various shipping boxes that were retained for storag 4 years ago diplomatist books those who cannot remember the past those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it george santayana reason in common sense 1905 on this holocaust memorial day i think 6 years ago canister grape a website for wargamers still here kind of g day all a number of people have reached out to check on me knowing we have awful bushfires here at the moment the scale defies explanation and what the 6 years ago the angry lurker 15mm savage northmen cavalry from the north and copplestone castings lots painted but blogging is becoming a little harder to achieve lately but anyway let s be getting on 6 years ago baconfat log 7tv post apocalyptic survivors randos tech gangers fallout mutant hounds graves and a corrugated junk pile hello distinguisher viewer today there are fifteen small things for you to look at first are three minis from crooked dice s 7tv apocalypse game rev 6 years ago anything but a one re paint i decided to re paint the brmdi painted earlier in the week i can hear you already screaming at me and with some justification i am happier now i s 6 years ago monty s caravan king henry v so it s the final days of the challenge and two entries to go for me here s one that is very near and dear to me king henry v of england actually t 7 years ago the gamer s table arabs and a norman some experimentation has been taking place on my hobby table these arabs below have bodies from three different plastic sets gripping beast arabs gripin 7 years ago never mind the jankers blog new col bills blog just launched there is now a new blog for 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