Adventures on the Wargames Table

These sort of figures are handy for representing different factors in various rulesets ... For example, Disorder in War & Conquest, Fatigue in SAGA, Casualties in Hail Caesar, etc. They also make good battlefield debris. All the figures are from Gripping Beast's generic dark age casualties pack. Here they are. Hope you like them. I've bought some Warbases numbered, rotating casualty marker bases. These have a space on top for your casualty figure. So the box of Perry Crusdaer casualties I picked up at Colours may well appear in that fashion. For now though, I really need to get on with painting some more Saxons.

My good lady has been at it again ... with a paint brush that is ;o) Here's a few more Bondi to add to those in her SAGA warband and make a unit of 24. And now a closer picture. This week I hope to make some progress with a mix of scenery, some lovely Thegns (aka Musketeer Gedriht) and may be some casualty markers.

Ok, this is NOT a wargames related post. But after tonight's Strictly Come Dancing premiere I just couldn't resist. I promise that 'normal' service will resume very soon - perhaps tomorrow - with some Vikings. For those who have no idea who Johnny Ball is then have a look here and here . For me, he was one of my childhood heroes. The man who taught Maths and Science on TV in a variety of amazing and interesting ways. Now he's on Strictly at the venerable age of 74. Well done that man!

Saturday 8th September was the first day of the Colours 2012 show. Just like when we went to Devizes it was another gloriously sunny day. The show is held in the grandstand at the Newbury Racecourse. Being such a high spec venue I thought it obvious that they'd have air-con ... but oh no! By George did it get hot! However, I will say that it was a very well organised show from my perspective, i.e. putting on a demo game. Everything was well laid out and the venue has ample free parking along with a number of reasonably priced coffee and food outlets. The show is spread over three floors and is well attended by a good range of traders. As part of the ongoing process of showing the world just how much fun War & Conquest is, my wife and I brought along our Celt and Roman armies to put on a game with Rob from Scarab Miniatures. There was also Steve from Bristol Big'Uns on hand to help out with sage tactical advice. Rob created a marvellous scenario involving the Romans t...

Way back awhile I decided to multi-base some of my Celts to speed up the process of deploying them before battle. However, at the recent W&C Gaming Day, Phil was kind enough to point out that the basing hadn't quite been finished off properly. So, just for Phil, here they are with completed bases! These fine fellows will be joining their tribal friends in a spot of Roman bashing at Colours this weekend. For more info - http://colours.org.uk/colours/   We'll be there on the Saturday playing the Scarab demo game so please do come along and say "hello".

Whilst having a short rest from painting models, my lovely wife has painted a couple of pieces of resin scenery. First is this thatched wattle animal pen from Grand Manner . I think Sven likes sheep ;o) Next is this rather nice little boat from Dreamholme Collectables. I suppose I need to make some fishing nets and barrels of herring next!? I like to add a few little extras to battlefields rather than just game around a building, a hill and a few trees, and these are exactly the sort of items I look out for at shows.