BEF for Chain of Command (3)

Another almost section done. The Bren guy went walkabout somewhere along the line - he's on the painting stick now.

So I'll finish Bren gun and a couple of commanders and then it'll be time for the support weapons.

French for Muskets and Tommahawks

I finally painted the French Regulars I bought a few years ago when the Sherwood Hucknall and Ilkeston Team were going to do French Indian wars.
They're the very nice Crusader Miniatures from Northstar.

Finishing them also gave me the excuse to base the other elements of the force.

Some Crusader Woodland Indians

And some rather less nice Compagnie Franche de la Marine from Warlord (ex Conquest)

Of course Northstar now has their own versions of these troops. I wish they'd been available when i was buying.

This seems to be close to a reasonable starter force. I need a commander for the regulars but other than that they're good to go once lockdown ends.

Grey Wizard

One of the old single piece plastic wizards, originally done for the Talisman game and later available in "toy box" format from Games Workshop.

He's clearly of the Gandalf school of wizardry.
He joins the Bright Wizard and Jade Wizard  from the same set that I painted a few years ago. I've also done the Amber Wizard who serves in my Kislev force - must take a picture at some point.

Night Goblins

Finished off fifteen of these.

Ready for our post lockdown Gob Off.

Warmaster Empire

A few more units for Warmaster Empire.
The Halbardiers were all but finished and really only needed basing.

These are more of the unreleased test models.

The helblaster gun needed a little finishing and the crew were still just undercoated.

Two units of crossbows. Both needed a fair bit of finishing. the red uniforms were left untouched but pretty much everything else needed an bit of tarting up or adding altogether.

The first unit is the standard crossbowmen that were released with the game. Even though the rest of my force is Middenheim/Middenland blue and white these were red to match the other unit.

This is another of the unreleased test pieces and these models were clearly based on one of the regiment of renown Dogs of War units - The Marksmen of Miragliano who wore red. So that's how I started painting them. then left them in a box for fifteen years.

That's the last of the part finished models. I now have a whole bunch of Empire models on white snow bases to rebase - along with rather a lot of models still in blisters or mail order bags.

More Perry Plastic French Napoleonic Infantry

In lockdown I have kept plugging away at the Napoleonics.
Now finished another 12 blue coated Frenchmen
A second unit for Rebels and Patriots or combined with the others to make a single 24 man unit for BP.

6 Voltigeurs are almost finished.

Sellswords and Spellslingers - visit to the healer

Enthused by the game yesterday I decided to continue a mini campaign for Sellswords and Spellslingers.

Returning in triumph to the hamlet of  Lower Dribble the party were well rewarded for driving off the predatory Orcs.
Frappa, still suffering the effects of his wounds stumbled off to bed.
Thrung grabbed some silver pieces and headed to the bar.
Dilberry boasting of how his archery had saved the day was challenged to demonstrate his bow skill and duly lost ten silver pieces when he failed to find the target
Wensleydale attempted to take advantage of the celebrating villagers by relieving one of his purse. Only fast talking saved him from a beating when his attempt was spotted

The next day Frappa was no better - the gash in his leg had begun to smell funny.
Rousing the dwarf from his slumber beneath the bar table the party set off into the mountains in search of a healer of Wensleydale's acquaintance.

As the four approached the humble shack high in hills Dilberry's keen eyes caught sight of something.
Bandits, heading toward the healer's shack with evil on their minds

The healer's humble abode

Fierce bandits

"Two Hammers" Colinson, the bandit king

To the rescue!

Oh, the bandits have raced ahead.

What? A Minotaur!

Those bandits have got quite a head start here.

An ambusher. swiftly dealt with, cleared Thrung's fuzzy head

A bandit charged Dilberry, who miraculously shot him right between the eyes first time.

Wensleydale starting searching the corpses for cash

Frappa's fireball aim was off. Not helped by "manna fluctuations"

The healer was dragged out by brigands, but Thrung raced to the rescue as fast as his short fat hairy legs would allow.

Soon the bandits were laid out.

Unfortunately the kerfuffle knocked over a pan and the shack burst in to flame.

More bandits suddenly arrived.

And an ambusher rushed at the dwarf.

The party decided a hasty retreat was in order.

Especially with the Minotaur getting rather close

Thrung took on "Two Hammers"

And smashed him to the ground whilst Frappa turned tail

The bandits closed in

At this point Wensleydale tripped and fell. And couldn't get up for ages.

Another bandit unwisely trifled with Thrung's chopper

Even Dilberry got attacked

But proved up to the task

Twice over

Finally Wensleydale stood up

To find himself loser than he really wanted to be to a Minotaur

Putting on a burst of speed he joined his companions mere yards from safety...

And despite trying their hardest to mess it up eventually they all faded away into the bushes laving an angry Minotaur and some bandits behind.

This was really hard work.
I kept failing rolls every single time I picked up the dice. The bandits were at the hut and a wandering Minotaur had arrived before most of the party had moved.
Only a bit of excellent combat from Thrung and Dilberry prevented this turning in to a massacre.
And even then I failed five simple rolls to get the last members off the table - one more and the Minotaur would have had the halfling for breakfast!