Be Very Afraid

Donnington 15mm New Era Teutonics

Painted up as a DBE Wedge. They require a lot of work to assemble including drilling out the hands and lance cups and glueing the shields onto their arms

Latest Painting Addition to my 15mm Feudals

Yet another batch of New and Refurbished Figures

Making use of the time to sort out the Project Lead Mountain I decided it was high time to finish off some missing gaps in my collection. Its all 15mm Feudal Era stuff.

New QRF/SMM 1200AD+ Knight Wedges

 

New QRF/SMM Dismounted Knights

New Donningtons FEC70 Mounted Crossbowmen painted up as Italian Berrovieri

Naismith/Roundway rebased with new Florence shield decoration

 

New Black Hat/Gladiator FE20 Spearmen painted up for Italian Commune Spearmen

Naismith/Roundway Sword & Bucklermen rebased and armour washed for Italian Condotta 

Unknown Crossbowmen rebased and retouched

Unknown Archers for Civic Militia foot

Old Minifigs 100YW English Archers rebased

Mixed Make Irr Bw O Archers

Unknown Make painted as more Civic Militia Psiloi

First Game Using Welsh DBM 400 AP

Welsh Go To Italy On Holiday And Lose Their Trousers

Peter K at Essex Warriors his still fine tuning his Italo-Ostrogoth army list with a view to possibly using it in next years club DBM tournament. So he asked me for another 400 AP practise game to see how his latest ideas would work.

His current version comprised an army of 71 E/65.5 EE breaking on 33 EE losses.
C1 = 23 E/21.5 EE/7.5 D
C2 = 24 E/22 EE/7.5 D
C3 = 24 E/22 EE/7.5 D

My army was totally new for me and comprised 104 E/ 94 EE Breaking on 47 EE losses.
I used four commands, two of 32 E and two internal allies of 20 E.

It is a very large army if a little one dimensional. I only decided to build it because I had a load of unpainted and otherwise useless figures that were doing nothing along with four old DBA armies which needed rebasing and were perfect to use as Welsh infantry.

I ended up invading and placed a Rd and 3 FE of Entirely Steep but bare hills. I used two 1.5 FE which both fell in the same sector on Peters side of the table. Peter just placed three gentle hills.

We deployed along the table frontage and I rolled two of the usual 1's for first PIP's which meant one of my allies was unreliable. Raf came over a few times during the game and commented "every time I come over all I see is you rolling 1's". It wasn't as bad as it seemed but I suffered from high losses due to archery fire all on one of the now reliable allies which soon mounted up and they eventually became demoralised. But by the same token one of my archer groups was quite adept at shooting Peters Irr Kn F from their saddles too. This caused my Green ally command to break in the centre. But I managed to hold most of it the next bound by rolling a 6.

Not long after this I broke Peters left wing command which taken with his other losses meant I was only 5 elements away from breaking his entire army. Another bound went by with another 2 losses meaning that he was 3 elements away from breaking unless I broke a second command which would only take another 1.5 EE losses to break. With this in mind Peter through caution to the wind and charged in with everything he could and gambled on getting some decent results. With this he took 8 elements off in one bound to break my CinC's command and with it the entire army for a 9 - 1 victory which equated to a 27 - 5 BHGS result because Peter had lost 45.8% of his total army compared to my 100% making the difference 54.2%.

I was greatly hampered by the lack of usable terrain in my side of the table and even if I had not placed any terrain in the first phase and waited until afterwards I would have ended up with less terrain to try and place and risked it not being used due to lack of room in some sectors.

Quite often the scoreline doesn't show how close these games are and the fact that it could have gone either way. I can see possibilities using the Welsh army but probably in themed tournaments rather than an open one.

Below are some pictures taking during the course of the game.

15mm DBM Spanish Allied Contingent & Misc Other bits

Finally Have An Ancient Spanish Ally After 20 Years

As with every wargamer I purchased figures with a view to providing an ally for this or that army. Time flew by and after 20 years and having cleared out two box files of metal I am now left finishing off the last bits and pieces to complete long forgotten projects.

I purchased some old painted 15mm Minifigs Z81 Spanish Scutarii in a Bring and Buy. They were not that well painted and some figures had broken javelins. I also obtained five Z81 that were unpainted as part of a job lot of Classical Era Macedonian & Punic War left overs.

Well I painted up the five figures to match the others, smartened them all up and rebased them. Below is the final result and I must say I very happy how they turned out. Can you spot the new figures from the old ones?

Minifigs Z81 Spanish Scutarii

Having done this I needed to make sure I have enough figures painted to give me all the choices for the Iberian Ancient Spanish Ally because the DBM and DBMM army lists are slightly different. I now have four elements of Irr Cv O Long Shield Cavalry including a generals element. Three elements of Irr LH O Round Shield Cavalry, four elements of Irr Ps O Balearic Slingers and sixteen elements of Irr Ps S Caetrati. I still have another sixteen elements of Caetrati to paint if I want to field a Lusitanian allied contingent but they can wait for now.

Below are the pictures of the various elements.

Essex Longshield Spanish Cavalry

Essex Roundshield Spanish Light Cavalry

Essex Balearic Slingers

Essex Caetrati

I addition to this I painted up an odd Donningtons Numidian Elephant I have had laying around for a similar amount of time as well as finally finishing off the last three elements of Marian Roman Generals elements I had part done to replace the original elements I have now sold on. I also rebased up some of the Marians/Polybian mounted I had as their bases were very tired and they needed freshening up. Lastly I scratched a Numidian Memorial Tomb to use with my Numidian Army as a baggage element as I was one short.

Donningtons Numidian Elephant

Essex Marian Roman Generals

Essex Polybian Roman Italian Allied Cavalry

Essex Polybian Roman Syrian Horse Archers

Numidian Memorial Tomb Baggage Element