The 'Goodies' for Slaine , fresh off the painting tray.

 

Two heroes for the 'goodies' side - King Gann and Queen Niamh (I believe they are not a wedded couple) once again with out of proportion weaponary so beloved of the Fantasy genre - but fun to paint.

Three Warriors of the Earth Tribes with slightly more modest weapons.

And finally from the painting tray, these dramatic Earth Tribe Warriors , I have played the odd game using the Warlord 'Slaine' rules but with a more of a assortment of figures I must give them another go and report back how they play.

Slaine - Baddies from the painting tray .

 

Catching up with my painting backlog - here are some of the 'baddies' from the Warlord 'Slaine' fantasy game , we see Megrim the Sorceress up to no good invoking something nasty . True to all fantasy figures her henchmen have extra large weapons and shields ! 

Here are three more nasties with some sort of repeating crossbows . I've enjoyed painting these figures they are very statuesque and take paint very well and have been a bit of light relief from painting uniformed rank and file figures. (click on photos to enlarge)

Caucasus Cossacks for the Back of Beyond.

Another bunch of Russians that have been painted for a while and never yet seen the tabletop yet . I must have had them for about 15 years so it was about time the had paint applied . 

 

A home game against 'S' and a mystery solved.

After somewhat of a pause I welcomed my wargaming colleague 'S' back to my tabletop for a rousing game of 'Honours of War' .

For once I displayed tactical genius and beat him - well okay I rolled the dice well and 'S' rolled very poorly and him having never played the rules probably helped as well !, but the game was played to finish within 2 hours which is what you want.

'S' recognised the mystery figure I rescued from the grasp of the dog as one he painted many years ago (?) - Robert Broughton's Royalist Regt. of Horse - what a good memory he has !

 

White Generals from the painting tray.

 

Got these painted quite a while ago and forgot I hadn't posted a picture of them . They are Empress Miniatures 28mm and their Standard bearer is a Copplestone figure.

A postponement and a rescue .

 Due to minor repairs in the wargaming room I've had to take down the 2D SYW  battle and will replay it after my holidays . 

In my workshop (a rather grand name for the shed) I have my casting equipment for my homecasting , I also have several boxes of old figures which I metal down for the castings . These have been gifted to me from various wargaming colleagues , whilst I was in there today getting something from the deep freeze for tea I was unaware that the dog had followed me in - he's not allowed in there because he gets up to mischief ! ! . I returned to the house and became aware he had something he shouldn't have in his mouth - so I bribed him with a treat to relinquish it and low and behold it was the above figure ! 

It must have dropped onto the floor from a casting session . It old , I would say it's a 15mm Minifigs ECW figure, one of the early types that were cast in strips, mounted on a piece of card - as one did before the advent of MDF . Whoever owned it had converted it into a standard bearer as you can see where the flag staff was glued to the hand and saddle - I trust the hound has not eaten the flag !?. Call me a bit sentimental but it reminded me of my early wargaming years and so I will save it and it will sit on my painting tray from now on.

The culprit, looking suitably demonic !

The Clash at Kutzdorf.

 

So I have just set up the next battle from the 'Snakes & Ladders' Campaign .The Prussians are the attackers.

The Austrians are are surprised by the Prussians appearing on their flank and will have to adjust their position to counter this . The Cavalry on the left flank is 'Dithering' as is the left Infantry Brigade , however the Hungarian General on the right is 'Dependable'.

The Prussians have 'Dependable' Brigadiers , however the couple of Frei-Korps Light Infantry on left have a Dashing leader! .

Alt Fritz - now with new improved basing !

Field Marshal Browne again with new impressive base . I hope to get the game played over the weekend and will report on the action next week.