Well we had our four players game of Lion Rampant today and I Need to say a big thank you to Mike for organising it. We managed a couple of games. As overall commander in both of them I won one and just lost one.
Game on we had to take the bridge and were pipped at the post by some foot sergeants holding it for long enough.
Game two was a bit more worrying, me versus three and I had to hold another bridge. I managed to totally wipe out one of the players directly opposite me, but lost both my mounted and foot men at arms, oh and my general too. Luckily one of the opposite number was actually a turncoat and helped out by destroying a lot of my opposition on the left…phew!
Well okay there are technically three forces and some interlopers!
So on the left we have the Hundred Years War English and on the left the Hundred Years War French. Both boxes have Wars of the Roses cavalry, heavy in the left and light in the right. The English box also has Aragorn leading a detachment of rangers…
Sadly I didn’t have time to flock everything this evening.
We will be playing Lion Rampant tomorrow.
While I was looking for this lot I came across my original dwarf from Heroquest… I had even painted him, sadly forgot the base though!
Next to him is an original goblin I think. I am sure the Advanced Heroquest had a shield.
Well that is the eighteen infantry and six cavalry painted. It was a bit of a rush job, but I got there this evening. As I said yesterday, they won’t win any prizes, but they are done apart from the bases. I will get those done tomorrow.
So here they are with the paint still wet…
I am just hoping that the ones in the shed that I think are done are actually finished. I will find out tomorrow.
I would have done it this evening, but I am knackered and really cannot be bothered.
I will add them all together and see what they look like. I know the crossbow men are in a specific livery, I think I have some liveried spears too.
Well Loreil Softvale is on hold for a few days. Thule Gamers is having a big game on Saturday and I said I would go along.
Now I could borrow miniatures, but where is the fun in that soooo.. I decided to break out my unfinished Hundred Years War Agincourt miniatures and try and get a force from them…queue panicked music…
This is what is left… oh yeah the cavalry are Wars of the Roses… the cavalry wasn’t our when I started these… easier to paint though. My son said he wanted to help so tomorrow we begin.
Well my weekend office arrived and I spent a couple of hours in a digger trying to flatten the track out. I will need another run at it tomorrow as I did miss some bits, well technically I didn’t miss them as I wanted everything to settle before having another go tomorrow.
Whilst hunting for my work gloves I came upon a box of Maltesers that one of the children gave me as a leaving present. They didn’t rattle much when I picked them up… I now have chocolate modern art…
I did manage a smidge of painting on the druid Loreil… I really, really couldn’t be bothered, but I forced myself to do one small bit.
I went for a pale green for her top, well I thought it befitted a druid. A couple of things are going through my head as I look at this… autumn or summer for the leaves and the original art has the butterfly as some kind of a glowing ethereal creature… not sure if I am up to object source lighting yet, especially not at this scale… something to ponder down the road.
So 7th July was my birthday and I have been on this planet 58 years and 6 days. I got some very cool presents from everyone including a DNA test thing… I am hoping for Hungarian or somewhere like that. Bound to have Scandinavian in there as most of the North of the UK do. I also got a lovely piece of Trench Art from 1916.
Some shell casing for the blade, bullet for the handle with a tunic button on the side for decoration. It also has a smaller button as a finial. Very cool.
I wonder what happened to the maker, did he make it home? Is this his legacy, bought for a stranger in an antique shop?
Hopefully it really meant something to someone and was their pride and joy. For me, I love it.
Well, my Polymyalgia decided to give me a bit of a kicking today. All I did was take the dog for a walk this morning and then moved a hen run and dug a 30cm wide by 50cm deep hole. I actually needed to go and lie down.
Well I eventually bit the bullet and decided to go for Heroquest. I had this game when it first came out and absolutely loved it. I even took it to Wales with me when I worked there as a summer job. It was so popular in the Hostel that I ended up making two new characters one was definitely a thief, I know for definite as I found rhe card I made. I think the other was a druid. I must admit this was a nostalgic journey, really helped by the cheap price I managed to get it for.
I haven’t really watched any YouTube discussions or unboxing videos so I was going in a bit blind and was honestly a little worried that it was going to be something similar to what GW did to Necromunda (I just hope they keep their mitts off Mordheim).
I shouldn’t have worried, apart from the miniatures it looks really, really similar.
The one major difference is in the furniture and doors is that they are all plastic rather than the card and plastic of the original.
The miniatures have some total differences. The Fimir have gone and are replaced by Abominations… basically fishmen.
There are four heroes and thirty one monster miniatures.
8 orcs – there seem to be 4 male and 4 females.
6 goblins
3 abominations
4 dread warriors
1 Dread sorcerer
1 gargoyle
4 skeletons
2 zombies
2 mummies
I am really tempted to paint everything 🙂
The miniatures are made of a soft plastic, not like the original hard plastic of the original.
Hopefully the kids will enjoy it as much as I did.
Bogenwald 