Lockdown Report # 7

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An update from Alan.

Due to work commitments and the with my father passing earlier in the month I was very remiss in not planning ahead and ordering the figures I need to complete some projects.
End result could well be I (hopefully) will get everything I currently have on the ‘to paint list’ completed in the next 3 – 4 weeks.
The Gaelic Division for my Carthaginian Army is now complete (pic 1).  I have a 1 unit of heavy spearmen,  2 units of Samnites, some light troops plus some Nubian Cav figures to paint (pic 2) and then that’s it till mail order starts again. But with the rest of my Carthaginians and Spanish there should be a sufficient force to halt the blight which is the spread of Rome (have to learn the rules first though).

Pic 1

Pic 2

I was going to complete some Westphalian units (since Borodino delayed) but could only score at the very last minute one box of the new Perry French  (will need to purchase 3 more when the bugs have gone) … but do have one Westphalian light Regt under way (pic 3).

Pic 3

Additionally I have been painting up some Black Seas ships, which were are nice change from 28mm figs, but have only one French 1st rate and small merchant vessel left to complete that collection (pic 4 &5)

Pic 4

Pic 5

Finally …. as a last resort if lockdown drags on, and the paints don’t run out, there is an unpainted 15mm Austrian SYW army in the cupboard gathering dust.
Stay safe.
Footnote: Terry here… I have offered Alan some more Victrix Samnites to paint …the 15mm figures are happy gathering dust….they truely are…honest Alan…reallllllly happy…...

 

Lockdown Report # 6

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Good morning, its Sunday 29th March. I needed reminding.

Tis a beautiful morning to be in a lockdown, gale force southerly and rain….been this way for a day or more.

Delightful.

View from lounge below, Even the dogs don’t want to go out.

Fortunately while I had a solid 9 hour sleep, result of eating to much lasagne followed by a wee dramm, Anita got up and put the fire on… love that woman.

Lounge nice and snug ready for me to start painting after coffee. Bless her.

Today’s update has Rob’s French cavalry as he has kindly sent me some pictures. As mentioned in earlier report Rob is Murat when we eventually refight Borodino.

Enjoy.

 

Lockdown Report # 4

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Terrain Maker extraordinaire Paul Weakley has supplied some pictures of his Russian forces arrayed around the Bagration Fleches. The terrain boards Paul made for the Borodino game make a table 24 foot long and 6 foot wide. This is but a small section of the battlefield.

Watch and weep you Frenchies…. we are ready for you!

Note the darker green/brown areas are actually woods…just trees not in their wee sockets at moment.

 

And below have focussed on the fleches. There were 3 but we are not using the smaller centre one.The fleches are made from the resin pieces I purchased from http://www.paulsmodellingworkshop.com/

The guns and gunners in fleches are mine…..the rest of the Russian masses are all Paul’s. The figures are carrying powder bags from the Perry ammo wagons I am completing.

 

Lockdown Report # 3

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And John has reported in from Auckland.

Apart from playing as Napoleon and running the French players for the Borodino game, John was supplying a sizeable Russian contribution. John has been working at rebasing them and below is a photo of his Russians undergoing rebase/repaint/tidy up and also Johns books.

We all love our books.

 

Lockdown Report # 2

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So Rob has sent me some pictures of what he has been up to.

The Borodino Game that we were meant to be gaming this weekend naturally was postponed.

Rob is Murat for the game and has been adding units to his army.

Here are his latest efforts but I will ask him to send pictures of his cavalry for publishing.

Below are more Perry French commanders and in background Dutch Red Lancers on the painting table. I suspect the French side will be fielding a division of these guys at some stage.

French Guard hose artillery

French foot artillery

 

And to finish off a shot of Rob’s library. Every gamer needs one!

Lockdown Report # 1

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So I have asked the ladz to send me updates of their efforts while locked at home in their bubbles.

I will kick it off with a my first project.

My ever expanding Roman Army. Apart from figures I have painted but not based, late last year I send 40 figures off to Fernando Enterprises.These were returned early March so will initially be working at adding some command figures, painting shields/adding decals and then basing them. Probably add 4 or 5 units before get bored and move onto Byzantines.

So here is unit Legionnaire unit # 12.

Figures are plastic Warlord Games plus command being metals from Foundry and mix of my painting and Fernando.

Lockdown

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So as New Zealand moves into lockdown from midnight Wednesday….its time to check if I am prepared.

Coffee machine and coffee? Tick


Whiskey? Tick


Books? Tick


Troops to paint? BIG TICK


Wood for fire? Tick.

Exercise organised? Double tick.

Yep they seem ready!

Just have to do some work while at home….there’s always a drawback!

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On the 28/29th March 2020 the group is refighting the Battle of Borodino over 2 days. At this stage it looks like 7 or 8 players aside with the game being played at a 50% ratio to actual orbats.

This event will be gamed at the Seatoun RSA/Bowling Club in the suburb of Seatoun in Wellington where we have hired the bar area which is large enough to cater for our 3 x 24 foot tables! It also means we have free access to the bar and there is a cafe and boutique pub next door. A perfect location.

The amazing Paul Weakley has been diligently working away making terrain boards to cover the central table which will be 6 6×4 foot boards. Early pictures of 2 of the boards are below.

This is part of the board around Gorki with its fleches.

And this is an early look at the main Redoubt , wolf pits to the front and one of my 12lb batteries positioned inside it.

We are fortunate that friend Peter of Von Peters Wargaming Madness  https://vonpeterhimself.wordpress.com/ has a selection of Russian Buildings which I have confiscated for the game.

Fo the Bagration Fleches I have souced some resin fieldworks from Paul’s Modelling Workshop. Paul has been wonderful to deal with in helping me sort out which pieces I need. They are winging there way to NZ at moment , but here are some pictures off the website.  http://www.paulsmodellingworkshop.com/

 

They will come unpainted, you can order them painted but I need to match them to the terrain boards.

Thats all for now, future upadtes as we get closer to the big game.

Terry

 

 

 

 

 

Hail Caesar Game: Rome v Carthage/Macedonia

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So managed a trial game of Hail Caeser, its been a few years so we took it slow, made incorrect rulings which the post game analysis picked up, but thats the idea of the game!

Here are some pictures.

Pete and I used early Imperial Romans and we played against Craig using scratch force of Macedonians with Galatians and Alan and his Carthaginian force.

My Romans got severly smacked……serious inability to hit or make saving throws. Pete blundered his legionaires off table but returned to do some decent damage on Alan, but my Romans in the end were goneburger.

Lesson learned……warbands have 5+ saves and not 4+!

Lesson learned…..Elephants are unpleasant.

 

Craigs Macedonian/Galatian’s

Petes Romans

Alans Carthagians

Terrys Romans

Alan advances with Petes troops blundering off table

 

Craig charges into my Archers…manage dto hold and hit warband in flack with cohort…didn’t go well for the cohort…Warband held…and the follow up unit hit the cohort. Pop!

My cohorts…who did not hang around for long!

There were more pictures but..can’t seem to load them……if succeed will add in.

Will play some more games in October(time for Fiji holiday in the sun!)