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Andy has been unsubtly hinting he wanted to play some games of AirWar: C21 for a little while now so I dug out some Mirages and MiG-21's to paint up for a quick game set during the Arab-Israeli Attrition War that fell between the Six Day War in 1967 and October War of 1973... Egyptian Air Force MiG-21s Israeli Air Force Shahaks (Dassault Mirage IIIC) As I was taking photos I took some of the…
Interrupted as they have been by the Barons' War and some 6mm Moderns (update coming soon) I have managed to finish the first pike block for the Italian Wars project. Whilst we will be using the On Bloody Ground supplement when it comes out, so I have no idea on what the army lists specify, I've used the Italia lists from Never Mind The Billhooks to get the ball rolling with the third rank…
Last year I picked up Écorcheurs! as Andy had expressed an interest in playing some medieval games and watching the videos online it seemed a good gateway - whilst it only needed about 20 figures a side I decided that it would be a good idea to paint up forces for Lion Rampant so we could play some bigger games. So, on and off, over the last few months I've painted up a 24 point force for the Army…
The end of June saw (what I think was) the inaugural On Bloody Ground Day at Bristol Independent Gaming where about a dozen of us gathered to play some Norman Conquest games. Borrowing part of Phil's rather large collection of Saxons, I refought 1066 in reverse having a crack at the pudding bowl haircut Normans in the morning, then rocking up against the hairy scary Vikings in the afternoon.…
Despite the hot weather I managed to keep going with the Warlord Games Landsknechts, completing half the first pike block - the third rank comprising of zweihänder (what they call Great Swords in Warhammer !)... And the fourth rank of pikemen. I now need to crack on with the front rank of pike and second rank of pike and command. As previous just block painting, Marine Juice and a few highlights…
With Bristol melting in the last heatwave (as opposed to the current one) Phil offered to host Andy and I at Chez Turner rather than play our usual weekly game down BIG (which would have been full of hot nd sweaty 40K gamers as it was a Thursday). After a delightful salad courtesy of Phil we got down to some Peninsular War Sharp Practice action playing Andy's 'Man From Del Monte' spy scenario...…
I really shouldn't listen to Phil, but somehow he convinced me that the Italian Wars should be the next big project! Initially I was going to cheat a little and crack on with my long planned Swiss army for the Burgundian Wars (which I have also started) as an early Italian Wars army, but somehow the lure of the Landsknecht and being a bit bored during the England vs DR Congo match I ordered the…
As last week Paul (or Yours In A White Wine Sauce fame on Facebook ) liked (some) of these photos from a Twitter post I did about an Aeronef game played back in November 2021(!), I thought I'd dig out and post the original photos here. They are from a game with my (sadly departed) mate George Cowie as we were testing out a few ideas for Aeronef II - including split target firing... The models are…
It'd been a little while since we'd visited the Very British Civil War , but earlier in the month Andy took Phil and myself back to 1930's where we found the British Union of Fascists on a chicken rustling mission in darkest Somerset! A small group of Communists were stationed in a farm near the village of Freshford when suddenly they spotted khaki clad sections of BUF infantry moving across the…
A couple of weeks back I popped down to Phil's for another Dark Ages game of On Bloody Ground , this time the Saxons were tasked with saving Englalande from the depredations of Phil's pudding bowl haircut Normans who have a something of a reputation for being a bit good - and they have a lot of cavalry! Following last game's winning tactics, once again the Saxon Huscarls took the centre flanked by…
