Merry Christmas….

 A very Merry Christmas to everyone…

Drinky and Drunky say…

Bl&***bloo&£##@flum**”%Glook….

Apparently it makes perfect sense after you have had forty or fifty pints…😳😱🤯🤣🤣🤣

I hope you get all the toys you wished for…

All the best.   Aly, Drunky and Drinky….

From My Side of the Table… Lion Rampant… Christmas Cappers.

Greetings…

The other Friday we got together for a Christmas Wars of the Roses treasurer hunt…

The table was beautifully set up by Matt… looking suitably seasonal….

Although Adam and Matthew couldn’t make it we decided to include them as two drunken Revellers/Deserters…

The scenario was very simple… like most of ours… made up on the spot…

The object of the game was to collect up a much Xmas loot as possible and then present it to Santas glamorous helper at the church…

Points were given for loot gathered and enemies destroyed…

The drunks and the Maid acted as mobile loot…Moving randomly across the table.

The Drunks…

Santas glamorous helper…

The Maid and the Drunks….

A view of the table… 

You can see the cunningly hidden counters…

My brave warriors make their way on to the Field of Mars…

Hastings (Steven) makes his presence known…

My brave men start to spread out and look for Xmas treats….

Boucherie ( Israel) makes his play at the church…

I rush forward and persuade the Maid to join our party and snatch up a number of Xmas treats… A Goose and a Tree… I think 🤔.

The Drunks… Let’s be honest… They haven’t gone far… So much for their plan to to leave the country and party like its 1499….

An overview of the table… Enemies are massing around me as I try to snatch up as much treasure as I can.

I think this is probably my high watermark…

Then the dice gods removed their favour… And laughed in my face. 😱

I deftly place myself in a perfect position… For everyone…and their Aunties…to shoot at me… 

Sigh!

I am forced back… And lose control of the Maid…And her treasure…

Matt (Tudor) goes for broke and mobs the church…

“ With me lads… And you drunks… Get in the steeple… It’s party time”

The Maid decides to rejoin me… And I decide to try collect everyone around the House/Hovel and try and hold on to my goodies.

In the background Israel (Boucherie) makes a play towards Matt (Tudor) and the church…

Once more I seem to have presented a perfect target for my enemies…

Ouch!…

The Drunks make a break/stagger for pastures new…

But somehow end up back inside the church…

While Israel (Boucherie) and Matt (Tudor) continue their fight…

As I consolidate my position… Israel (Boucherie) rushes forward and challenges me to a duel…

“ Come on if you think you are hard enough De La Pole”

It turns out I was…

A fleeting moment of glory for me… Hurrah!

The party kicks off in the Steeple….

I look glorious and prepare to take on the world…

Unfortunately the world is armed with crossbows….

Not a single man left alive… Sigh!

The Maid wanders off to join the party…

Steven ( Hastings) sweeps up all of my fallen/lost treasures…

Party time for Matt (Tudor).

A splendid game indeed…

Matt won the moral/party high ground but Steven definitely won on points…

He got most of them for killing my men and collecting up my treasures…

I forgot to take a picture of what the treasures were … but there was A Tree, A Goose, Presents, Plum Duff, Beer, Wine…And much more. (Yes… The memory of a gold fish). We also included some blanks… I think Israel got these…

I think the next game will be my Xmas game with Mharaid 

Hopefully I will get some painting done over the holidays… 

I have been quite unproductive of late…

I am still not fully over the office Lurgy and the current weather we are having is exasperating my Sarcoidosis and causing my joints to ache ( Possible Fibromyalgia I am told)

Age… A laugh a minute 🤣🤣🤣

All the best.   Aly

Lion Rampant… Medieval Muggers.

Greetings…

Here is another addition to my Wars of the Roses collection…

Dastardly Medieval Muggers…

These are more lovely figures from Athena Miniatures…

https://www.athenaminiatures.co.uk/product/vignet7e-12-give-us-your-purse

I am not entirely sure how they will fit into our games… But they were a lot of fun to paint.

I have painted them as Boucherie (Israel) and Tudor (Matt) mugging Hastings (Hastings)…

Why?… You may ask…

Well it’s a dirty job… And someone has/had to do it… 🤣

The Blue bits are… Citadel… Kantor Blue.

The Yellow Bits are… AK Interactive… AKA 11118 Ochre.

The Hose are… Foundry… Drab 12B.

The Red bits are… Citadel… Mephiston Red.

The Belts are… Citadel… Skrag Brown.

The Green bits are… Vallejo… 70.967 Olive Green.

The White bits are… Citadel… Pallid Wych Flesh.

Everything was given a wash of Aly’s Brown Liquid and then re-highlighted with the original colours.

The paints are Wargames Foundry, AK Interactive, Vallejo and Citadel

https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/collections/paint

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Painting-Modelling

https://ak-interactive.com/product-category/paints/paints-acrylics/3rd-acrylics/

https://acrylicosvallejo.com/en/

The base is as always…

https://warbases.co.uk/

Things have been a bit slow on the painting front at the moment… I am moving stuff ( slowly) down into my cellar work/hobby room… This will take quite a bit of time…I have an embarrassment of unpainted lead to move 😱

And I am also suffering from a not very entertaining eye condition… Which is taking its time to go away…

Sigh!…

It is actually starting to improve…

I’m just an impatient old sod…

Sigh!…

🤣🤣🤣

All the best.  Aly