6 Nov 2007
Field of Glory now available in France
4 Nov 2007
its all over now
The evil Reigate empire has picked up the trophy with Jason Broomers insanely effective Sinhalese army that I played a couple of years ago at Ascot picking up the prize.
Farewell DBM !!!
Roll on the new world order!
Sunday mornings game
Or to use their full name, Fecking Rus.
Hoo bloody rah.
Maybe i should just get an earlier flight. My last DBM competition could end without s single win!
So, where was Dave Madigan
But at least he was here in spirit
I'm also guessing the "food served daily" contains some fried elements
3 Nov 2007
Game 3
A terrain free table is swept across by my spear wall, but some terrible dice in bounds 2-5 and some dogged defending by the Pecheneg light horse and wagons means I only get one command and am about 2 moves short of being able to flee another command off table.
I am now languishing with 2 points out of 9. You may be wondering who's in the lead - well, I dont really know, and as we all sit in different rooms in the rabbit-warren like building to play frankly the leaders may as well be on another planet
!!
Here are my spearmen trying to shove some light horse off a gentle hill
A couple of chariots beat themselves senseless against a wall of wooden wagons
Pecheneg is a large army. But you can fit it all in a fairly small space if you try
0
Right, now its time for a night on the lash!
2nd game
48% casualties on both sides and both of us 1 element away from victory.
And a proper lunch hour in the pub, with Arsenal Man Utd on the telly to boot.
But my capacity for fried food is already being severely tested.
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Some in-game pics
Two mounted generals get intimate in the rough
The Art I are not quite as clever as they hoped!
Heres Ruddocks sandwich
Nice of him to return it to the tray.
Fortunately, with so many wargamers around, it wasnt to last for that much longer
Friday night latest.
However its now eytinh close to double figures of Guinness pints. So the important things are going well.
Maybe get some photos up tomorrow.
2 Nov 2007
now here in dublin
Usefully, I forgot the directions. and the iwf website is down.
ok
at least a bar should be easy to find
European DBM Championships, Dublin
Luckily I had a handy translation guide to the local lingo..
Now, will we have time to do some shopping this afternoon?
11 Jul 2007
Warhamster Battle Report
site - but mostly between myself and one other bloke talking about the
shooting rules.
No reaction from the Yahoo WMA group, nothing on BHGS Yahoo, and one comment
on the Yahoo DBMlist. I'm surprised there is nothing on Yahoo, as I havent
seen any groovy battle reports posted there before.
I should really have set up traffic monitoring so I knew how many visits
there were, but its a bit late now.
1 Jul 2007
Devizes warhamster Results
Nicked it from the far more experienced Clice with a massive 960 point
victory in my last game (he scored about 600 in winning his last game) - so
I won 3 games and lost one.
Even so, I still remain to be convinced about the rules !
26 Jun 2007
10mm ACW photos
Having this many photos has allowed me to implement a "full" searchable site for ACW 10mm photos, with sub pages for all the different manufacturers I am aware of - you can link to it from here.
There are pics of at least one figure from every manufacturer, and a full set of compare and contrast photos with different manufacturers side by side.
I'm expecting a load of Minifigs to arrive any day now, so that will also be another large addition to the directory - having painted models may be some time away though!!
24 Jun 2007
10mm Romans nearing completion
WMA Roman army. Its one of those thats dragged on and on - and now as the
first batch of 10mm ACW stuff is here, I'm desparate to clear the painting
table to make room for them !!
Almost done - but I keep finding new sets of straps and belts to add to the
"to paint" list before I can base them
still not decided if I will keep or sell them however1!
11 Jun 2007
Swedish Wargames Competition Terrain
Pieces came in a standard 1 FE format, but could be nibbled to size as required.
This became much easier after application of a little cream cheese and a slice of smoked salmon.
10 Jun 2007
The end of The Nordic Championships
4 Games
2 wins, 2 losses
Out of 400 percent (of my army over 4 games) I suffered 297 percent in casualties
I had my largest command broken in every game, and this includes being totally eliminated (all killed in combat) in 1 of them and having none of its elemmemnts left on table in one other.
Ive managed to spend over 15o poinds on, erm, booze and a kebab. And I dont feel like Ive gone that mad....
cant wait to be back at work next week !
9 Jun 2007
First game
Combat in bound 1 !!
A 27.5 ee command (of mine) totally eliminated!!!
THe Vikings have definately landed....
And we are now in the pub.
Sweden
we only had a kebab.
£5 for 400ml of beer is a bit severe isn't it?
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4 Jun 2007
Stockholm 'Nordic Championships' 8-10th June
1. Jesper Ohlsson Later Carthaginian II/32
2. Niilo Kalakoski Pictish II/68
3. Hannu Uusitalo Fanatic Berber III/74
4. Kimmo Ylinen
5. Mika Mäkelä Early Samurai III/54
6. Tero Särkijärvi Minoan I/18
7. Arne Björk Order of St. John IV/56
8. Ulf Olsson Abbasid Arab III/37
9. Chris Smith Medieval O'irish IV/58
10 .Me! Norse Viking III/40
11. Brian Holmes Mithridatic II/48
12. Ludvig Uhlbors Iazyges II/26 ( I know...)
13. Greg Mann Papal Italian 1283 AD III/72
14. Sebastian Routh
15. Andy Routh
The mystery armies are still in there. Not sure what Routhish will have in
it !
31 May 2007
Nordic Championships Runners & Riders
Championships
The runners and riders so far are:
Jesper Ohlsson Later Carthaginian II/32
2. Niilo Kalakoski Pictish II/68
3. Hannu Uusitalo Fanatic Berber III/74
4. Kimmo Ylinen
5. Mika Mäkelä
6. Tero Särkijärvi
7. Arne Björk Order of St. John IV/56
8. Ulf Olsson Abbasid Arab III/37
9. Chris Smith Medieval O'irish IV/58
10 Me!! Norse Viking III/40
11. Brian Holmes Mithridatic II/48
12. Ludvig Uhlbors Iazyges II/26
I'm not sure if numbers 4 thru 6 are the players or their armies !
My Viking list is the proper thing - Bd F, pre 850 AD.
Coals to Newcastle !
23 May 2007
The Result
22 May 2007
Warhamster Tonight
My theory is that the game revolves around a bit of messing about coupled with some decisive rounds of combat from the uber troops. So expendable ubertroops due to a cute army composition, plus a mess of skirmishers might just work
21 May 2007
PBI Last Weekend
7 May 2007
Warhamster
22 Apr 2007
The famous Trout of The Confederacy
21 Apr 2007
The end of the Line
20 Apr 2007
manassas
Walking the field right now. Sun is shining. Sky is blue. And there are lots of those clever fences that all three of us are thinking how we can make out of matchsticks!
The end of the Campaign is in sight!
Yesterday we covered land and sea, modern and old, by taking in the USS Wisconsin at Norfolk Virginia's Naval museum, and then the museum and battlefield tour of the British defeat (!!) at Yorktown in the American War of Independance. Apparently we almost accidentally surrendered to the French, so a narrow escape there then....
The Wisconsin is rather large and very grey,
..and the Yorktown site is fantastic - a really American place, in that it allows drive through tours, where you dont even have to get out of the car to see some of the sights and read the information boards.
We ended up in ex Capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, and today our agenda should include the museum here, then a trip to Manassas and Antietam ("Anne-tee-tam"). The Museum of Aviation near Dulles Airport is on the list for Friday.
Unfortunately the business centre computeres in the places we have been staying recently are cleverly put together, and I cant upload photos from my camera to them, but there will be plenty coming in the next few weeks !
18 Apr 2007
18th - Wednesday
Yesterday we attempted to drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway whilst listening to Bluegrass music and spitting chewed corn cobs out of the car window every 200 yeards. This proved somewhat difficult as the Parkway was closed - for no apparent reason.
Last night a local resident narrowly escaped a heavy beating, as we walked 6 blocks to find what our guidebook described as the best restaurant in Winston Salem, as all three of us had just about reached the EU legal limit for the number of fried and grilled meat based meals one is allowed to have in any one week, and we were desparate for "proper" food.
Unfortunately the restaurant was closing as we walked in (at 930pm), but the barman was able to helpfully recommend an alternative. When we asked him what it served, he volunteered the information "Oh yeah, they serve REALLY great Chicken Wings. And the Sandwiches and Ribs are excellent too...."
He will live his life not knowing how lucky he was...and we are one step closer to believing Clarkson is right - here is more Top Gear
17 Apr 2007
textbook stuff
What's not to like?
16 Apr 2007
heckle That !
Now, That is what I call entertainment....
Boy Band of NICT?
Hilton Nearly Kills us All
Handsfree driving means something different in the UK. At least he had only been drinking Miller Lite !
Steve Royle on Monorail at Gatwick
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The White Cottage....
Me Collecting the Winning trophy In Birmingham
Is there a Hooters in Ascot...?
I suspect will never quite have the same degree of positive sentiment about the offerings of the the curry house in Ascot ....
15 Apr 2007
Finally...
We had more time than I thought, so after the CinC command was almost totally eliminated by the Germans some light horse sacked the Jewish baggage and the final element came as the elite of the Judean army, some Ax S came out of the rough to take on my light horse.... And lost on a 6-1 !!!!!
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Steve lost to Steve Payne, so Marc Crotteau wins.
What a weekend!
Now for the holiday - more reports to come.
Photos to follow of our evenings out in a few days, and full game reports in more depth in a few weeks.
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Yee Hah !!
ps - Talledega Speedway actually exists as a real place - we saw it! We thought it was made up for the film!!
Almost!
Got the CinC but still need 3 more elements. And I can't see them .
Need to work out how much time is left
The Teutons have a lot of dead stuff to wade through