Progredi Testudine

I received two of the Warlord Testudo's for my birthday back in march, I actually finished these guys about three months ago but based them for WAB, since I am making the change to Impetus I re-based them and decided to take a pic!

cheers 

Matt

30YW / ECW Tercio

More 30YW off the painting desk last weekend, some more Warlord plastic pike and shot, these guys also have deliberately been supplied with no recognizable standard.. The plastics really paint up nicely and look quite good. I have another two warlord pike and shot blocks to finish off to give myself a four tercio strong 30YW army for the club games.



They have already fought their first battle where they routed a Astley's Regt (a foundry metal unit!) see here.


cheers
matt

Warlord ECW tercio

Just off the painting desk some Warlord plastic pike and shot, these guys have deliberately left with no recognizable standard as I want to use them for our 30 Years war games also. The plastics paint up nicely and look quite good. I may at some stage replace the plastic pikes with metal ones as I have already broke a few off through reckless handling :). I have another four warlord pike and shot blocks to finish off to give myself a four tercio strong 30YW army for the club games.





cheers
matt

Roman Auxilia

I finished a lot of these guys last year for craigs 40th birthday bash, I have started to revisit my early and late republican and imperial roman armies and some of their enemies and allies and finish off a number of half completed units. Some items that need to be done are all of my republicans sheilds need transfers, I am short sheilds for my celts and germans plus transfers, and I need finish my republican roman cavalry two Alae.

In the coming weeks I intend to start my mixed Warlord and (perry bros) foundry Roman Augustian 1st cent AD army, then move onto my third cent army over the Christmas period.

A good mix of figures below, Warlord metals and plastics, some Foundry, Blacktree and First corps.

First corps Suevi cavalry








Warlord Wardogs and Handler, some first corps dogs too!


Warlord Celt Druid


Warlord Celt Witch


Warlord Celtic Druid/ General


Black Tree Elephant with Numidian crew


Warlord metal and Plastic Imperial auxilia
Cohors II Britannorum


Warlord Belaric Slingers


First corps and Warlord Archers


First Corps Suevi Archers


First Corps and Warlord Eastern Archers
Cohors Augusta Nervia Pacensis


cheers
matt

Victory without Qauter

The guys at the Goulburn Valiant Stormer’s are throwing around some ideas for the big project next year, a few of us think be 30 years war could be a possible front runner, as the warlord plastics lend themselves nicely to the period (still some discussion and dissention in the ranks as to basing conventions though), so with that thought a number of us have started to play test some rule sets. On Sunday Dave and I (we both normally play Warhammer English Civil War) had a game using the Free “Victory without Quarter” rules.

Using my ECW figs we each had a C in C, one cavalry general , two pike and shot blocks, one trotter and one galloper horse unit, one gun and a clubman for the parliament and highlanders for the Irish Royalists.

The game was played over 4 hours, I really liked the rules as I found they could be a little unpredictable and I liked the different factors for troop types and the card idea, although I think that VWQ will be a little slow for those players wanting to get two games in on a club day. VWQ still gave a satisfactory result and possibly would speed up after a few games; however I don’t think they would handle much more troop wise, two more pike blocks possibly and another regiment of horse each would slow it down even more. My ECW army is a mix of different figures, the Irish Montrose army are mostly Eureka, the pike and shot, horse, a mix of Old Glory, Perry and Eureka Highlanders and a Foundry gun and crew, On the parliment side, all Foundry and Perry except for the clubmen who are Warlord metals.











As the boys want to play a more grand tactical game I think VWQ will not be suitable for what we have in mind, although I would happily use VWQ for ECW. The next rule set we will play test is the Baroque set from the guys who wrote impetus.


Cheers
Matt