Liberation of Pavis at Partizan

I went along with James to Partizan taking the Liberation of Pavis set-up that we took to Joy of Six earlier in the year. James also had a huge 28mm Agincourt game as well - so an opportunity to show off the flexinbility of Midgard to cope with different scales, periods and even cope with fantasy elements.

Matt was unfortunately unable to attend and the Agincourt game needed most attention (and players) so i spent the day very happily pushing soldiers and rolling dice on behalf of both sides and chatting away to plentiful visitors.

Here's the eye candy

The models are mostly chum Matt's work with me contributing the Trolls and Broo.

The scenery is James work and all set off with a John Hodgson backdrop.

Warmaster Chaos v. Bretonnians

Andy has been beavering - or perhaps that should be "Belvoiring" - away at a Bretonnian army in preparation for the 25th Birthday Warmaster even in Scotland next month. They're table ready, so he bought them over to the Soldier Shack for a run out. My Kislevites for the same event remain, ahem, in progress so I dug out the Chaos army.

Here's the video version

And now here's a few pictures

The Chaos horde assembles

General back on his Dragon (we're using King Is Dead rules)

I say "horde" but it's actually a pretty compact little army.

Peg Knights and Squires

Loadsa Knights - all with individual heraldry, as it should be. And also the reason i will *never* have a Bretonnian army.

More Knights

And still more...

Soon there were Peg Knights in my rear.

Picking on my Marauders.

The Bretonnians got the charges in.

Picking on my poor puppies

The "harpies" headed for the artillery, but Yeomen blocked the way.

The sneaky Enchantress managed to summon up some mist.

The Dragon Ogres cleaned things up in my rear but were in turn charged.

The remaining Pegasus knight fought on.

My general was caught in the open.

And surrounded

The Knights of Slaanesh found themselves assailed.

As the Dragon Ogres went down swinging.

And still the Pegsus Knight and Marauder continued their struggle!

At about this point my army was broken after just three turns.

Andy did have some outrageous dice, but mostly I was outmanoeuvred and outfought.

I get terribly distracted by flyers in my rear and my left flank never got moving thanks to some poor dice.

But it all looked very colourful and pretty and that's the main thing as far as I'm concerned.

Kneeling Knight

A "loyal subject" apparently

The missing model from the King set I painted earlier

Model from Athena Miniatures.

Again based on a Graham Turner painting

Margaret of Anjou

 For the Wars of the Roses collection. 

The queen, horse and horse holder are from Athena miniatures the herald is a Perry plastic

The model is I think based on this painting by Graham Turner

Warmaster Chaos v. Nippon

Chum Matt has been working on a Nippon army using the Wargames Atlantic 10mm plastics. He's also painted up some themed scenery. So it was time to get them on the table.

Unfortunately the STLs he has for the more fantasy elements of the army are proving resistant to printing so it was quite a vanilla army - but that did mean it was also huge with a break point of 14!

Here's a video of the whole shebang

And now the analogue version.

The Chaos horde takes the field

Flank well supported.

Ashigaru by the boatload

Matt had fettled the paddy fields and other terrain.

The armies face off

Chaos Knights are charged by Samurai

Nippon has a strong defensive position

Chaos Knights doing Chaos Knight things

The battle hangs in the balance

Great fun game that resulted in a draw. We played the pitched battle scenario using the random game length rules from the rulebook which saw a sudden end after five turns with both of us having killed around 850 points.

Good to see the Nippon army on the table.

Lord of the Rings three player

I still have some games to catch up on, but this one is striking while the iron is hot, played on Saturday just gone.

The usual suspects for our three player MESBG games. Hosted by NSYN - all scenery his work - in fact only the Easterlings were mine.

I managed to locate an "official" three-player scenario from White Dwarf. The central tower contained gold which we had to get back to our huts.

I got my Easterling archers up on a hill. From whence they proved again how useless archery is in MESBG.

My Kataphrakts charged wold riders and a succession of 6s saw them all die very quickly.

meanwhile I raced for the tower.

With two more Kataphrakts heading off to mess up the Gondorians.

The King of the Dead decided to deal with the Cave Troll personally.

I was making off with plenty of gold (blue/beads) but Gondor was doing well too. The Orcs were mostly dying.

My remaining Kataphrakt was finding it difficult to kill any Gondorians.

The Ringwraith was trying to snipe my General for bonus victory points.

Soon my gold gatherers found an angry Dead Ruler hunting them down.

Faramir too was proving resilient.

The Dead Blokes were ruthless in dealing with my forces.

In the end Gondor had the most gold, had killed most Generals, was unbroken and the clear winner.

The scenario worked well and it all looked very jolly.