Warlord Auxilia

I finished a box of Warlord Games Roman Auxilia - these guys - in 28mm for my MayDay game.

Nice figures, really nice, but they are a bit over-animated for my taste which makes them hard to rank up. I based them on 30 x 60mm frontage so they can be used for DBA.

I am thinking of running a Dacian Wars battle for my big MayDay game. I have some Foundry and Warlord Dacians, as well as a horde of Sarmatian cavalry. My quandry is which ruleset to use - I picked up the Hail Caesar supplement over Christmas and it has some nice ideas for scenarios, and Hail Caesar is a good participation game for a Con. Although I prefer WAB ... I dunno...

Happy New Year, Comrades!

As the year wraps up I can recap what came off the bench this year, about 1500 figures (although quite a few of these are wee):

6mm: 90 foot, 67 vehicles - all WW2 and modern microarmor

10mm: 655 foot, 37 mounted - all Imperial Romans
15mm: 135 foot, 45 mounted, elephant - a couple of DBA armies
1/72: 225 foot, 47 mounted, 7 arty, 3 guns, 2 tanks - mostly Napoleonics and WW2
28mm: 193 foot, 57 mounted, 3 monsters, 2 chariots, gun - Some fantasy stuff for HOTT and ancients
Total: roughly 1500 figs - 1308 foot, 185 mounted, 86 other

I also managed to play 39 games of DBA with the following armies, and the dice were kind 31 times:

Early Achaemenid Persian: 2-0
Late Achaemenid Persian: 1-0
Abysinnians: 5-3

Early Imperial Roman: 8-1

Sassanid Persian: 2-0

Ancient Britons: 5-2
Teutonics: 5-1
Later Swiss: 1-1
Dacians: 1-0
Marian Rome: 1-0
New games I tried this year included Fireball Forward (a keeper), War and Conquest (meh - not sure if it tops WAB for me), Lasalle (good), Fistful of Tows (OK) and I played a lot of Command and Colors (Ancients and Napoleonics) and Memoir '44. 

Over the holidays I finished this batch of 1/72 Soviets for a 1941 scenario I think I will run using Fireball Forward at the next club night, the guns and infantry figs are from Plastic Soldier Company and are very good, the BT-7 and BA-6 are Pegasus, and the ruined building is a very nice Italeri kit that I picked up from chum Mark- nice!

 

Happy New Year from the boys (should have named them Jeff and Akbar...)

Augustus and the Praetorian Guard

Here we have the Emperor Augustus and his bodyguard in 28mm by Warlord Games. Super models, gotta say I love painting Romans. I now have Imperial Roman armies in 4 scales....

Napoleonic Spanish and lancers

The last few weeks have been insanely busy at work, but I still completed 3 new regiments of 1/72 Napoleonics - enough to fill out the CC:N order of battle for the Albuera scenario. Here I have two regiment of Spanish infantry from Hat and a regiment of Polish guard lancers from Zvezda. They are glossy because the temperatures have not really allowed for dullcoting.

Napoleonic Russians and Dragoons

Last week I started on Napoleonic Russians - I have quite a horde of Zvezda and Strelets picked up in a job lot earlier this year. These are very nice figures, I did some Guards infantry and Cuirassiers by Zvezda, and a unit of British Dragoons by Hat that have been patiently waiting their turn in my painting queue for about 6 months.

USMC and Matanikau River

I have just finished a batch of Marines with US Army artillery support sufficient to fill out the OB for the Memoir 44 scenario Matanikau River, this was one of the bloody struggles on Guadalcanal:



I am not sure of the manufacturer of the Marines, they are 20mm metals, and there may be more than one, but the 75mm pack howitzers are from Waterloo 1815 and are a very useful 1/72 plastic kit - 3 guns with crews.

Banzai!!!!

Over the last two weeks I completed this force of Japanese army in 20mm for use in Memoir '44 and Fireball Forward. The metals are a batch I picked up in a swap and are mixed manufacturers. The Ha-go is a Dragon 1/72 kit and the Chi-ha is a resin of unknown manufacturer. The 70mm guns are the Waterloo 1815 kit - nice.

I am very fond of the anti-tank mine....very Japanese...