last minute additions

With being at Micks this weekend I put a little effort in today and painted up anothrr small unit from figures I still had to do. If I had been a bit more motivated, there were another 2 units of skirmishers that could have been added.

Mick sent through the scenario and I am little worried. I have to march to the relief of Cordoba, under seige by those dastardly almoravids. I have fight lengthways down an 18ft table with goodness knows what attacking my flanks and preventing me reaching the plains. Did I mention it was a narrow valley! This should be fun.

weekend gaming

This weekend I've got two big games on at Micks. The Saturday is an el-cid game using WAB against his newly painted almoravid force (hope it goes the way of all newly painted figures). This is set at approx 6000 points a side, think I can only manage about 5500, but what the hell, it's just a game.

The Sunday it will be Greeks facing off against Persians ,using Mick's adapted rules for hexes. These have been changed since I last played them, so looking forward to see how they go. It even inspired me to paint up 5 extra stands of hoplites.

2nd New York + officers

Managed to finish these last night. First up is 2 mounted brigadiers followed by the 2nd New York. Itook their uniform from an old Blandford I had lying around. Apologies for the photo quality, had to use the flash. Next up I'll be starting on the three artillery batteries aswell as some more Greek hoplites that Harry gave me, enough for five bases.

3rd New York Regiment

Made some more progress on my second brigade of Americans. The first completed regiment is the 3rd New York. I enjoyed painting these in their grey coats. I took the pictures on my mobile and feel they don't do them justice (doing all my blogging via the mobile).

Scented Slayers

Just a couple of pictures of a bloodbowl team I've managed to put together from some spare figures I had lying around. I've named the team "Scented Slayers". I'm not sure when I will be able to game with these.

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figures arrived

My order from pendraken arrived today. I'll be able to continu with my awi project. From the figures i received I can put together 6 more continental infantry regiments. I will also have 3 artillery pieces and some generals. For my generals I plan to have foot and mounted versions, because I will be using a variant of fire and fury they can be switched to represent casualties.

I also got an email from Jeff @ outpost apologising for the delay in getting the figures to me as he has been ill. He's even given me £5 off my next order. Now that is what I call great customer service. I'll definately be ordering again.

General rambling

Still awaiting my PC being fixed, looks like it will be next month at the earliest, one of my mates is going to put it together for me. Just got to get the hard drive and he'll do the rest.

On a wargaming front, not up to much. Painted some more sci-fi troopers and a converted blood bowl team just for the fun of it. I'm still awaiting figures fro Outpost and Pendraken so my franco-prussian and awi projects have stalled due to lack of things to paint.

On the blogging front I'm getting rather annoyed with the new word verification, just taken it off mine. Who the hell designed it, now my eyesight isn't bad but I cannot decipher half of them and so have been unable to leave comments on a number of blogs I visit (sorry folks). It's just annoying and a pain in the arse.

Anyway off to await the postman and hope he brings the goodies I'm awaiting.