Flodden Highlanders Irish 3,plastic gallowglass

First up, the archers are old Glory with some additional Perry plastic heads, I will use them as Irish, Highlanders at Flodden and with Montrose and probably with my dark age Picts 1300 years of use, now that's adaptable ( if not entirely accurate!) As you can tell I'm continuing my tartan avoidance scheme! Dynamic lively chaps,they do have enormous calves,proto rugby players I guess?

Now on to the plastic kit bash of gripping beast Saxons with Perry plastic 100 years war French  heads and the odd GW double handed sword, surprisingly successful and good for gallowglass and Islemen and Highlanders at Flodden, Montrose is probably a step too far,even for me!

 Lousy photos but I hope you get the jist next up should really be some terrain, I've been fiddling about but I need to get my finger out and get something finished!

All the best Iain 

ECW 5 Leslie Moor rerun AAR

We had another go at Leslie Moor,one of the free download scenarios from Big Red Batcave for For King and Parliament.
This time we swapped sides with my multi coloured regiments standing in for Mr Ed Grundys  Parliamentarians.

Labels, ammo markers, dash markers, there seems more stuff on the table than TtS. My Covenanter cavalry are making up the numbers( on both sides!)

I did my best to advance my cavalry on the right wing. 

I got to fire a cannon! (Also borrowed from the Covenanter army!)

Already disordered (more stuff)

We are actually moving forward!

Shooting from both sides, bringing a rash disorder. 

Not only do I get to use a cannon but I manage to destroy an infantry unit with it

Other Royalist units end up disordered.

The right wing cavalry defeats their opponents and then dash off in pursuit for the rest of the game!

The centre of the Royalist army in a state of collapse 

On the left wing I manage to lose a cavalry unit and dragoon unit but nothing can detract from the imminent end of the Royalist army. 

Fun game, I would say that as I won but it's funny it ended up with a very similar situation at the end of this game as the last, we got to it in different ways but in both games the Royalist centre collapsed with largely ineffectual activity on the wings. 

What it has made me do is push 3 units of Essex horse up the painting que and I am prepping cuirassiers and dragoons, and have also dug out my various pieces of ordinance, which might take a bit longer!I also realise I need to build lots and lots of hedges!

All the best Iain 

Early Imperial Roman 4 Newline auxiliary infantry and another Venetian/Papal game!

Here are some Roman auxiliaries, it's okay Matt, I've taken your advice and they have got painted shields to differentiate from the previous identical auxiliary unit

More Newline figures, nice sculpts without too much detail, this time I managed a shield design! It was my birthday in June and in leu of a present my daughter offered to help me paint some figures and this is our collaborative result, while she was doing it she asked if she could do one for her boyfriend and this is it.

Pretty good I think, even got a tuft(which none of my chaps do!) We had a refight of the Venetian versus Papal armies with daughter and boyfriend on one side and me on the other ( this time I managed not to lose!) Not long after we dug out the two armies for one more game of TtS but between the pair of them with me keeping the peace!

She won ,in spite of getting 3 aces in a row for her activations in one go,mainly because she was much more aggressive, still a fun game and they want to play some more games which is good!

All the best Iain