First game of lion rampant

Today i managed to get my first game of lion rampant and it seems to be a solid set of rules.

I had a couple of bad turns at the beginning with a string of lousy activations (or rather lack of activations) but it evened out in the end.

 a unit of archers rushing past a small hamlet with some prickers in the background.

 The enemy center with a their leader commanding a unit of mounted men at arms

 A unit of handgunners hovering over a field.

 Flanking manoeuvre!

 My leader commanding som men at arms, these guys are tough!

The enemy leader is all that is left of the mounted men at arms after a number of wild charges and counter charges.

The game was fun, we had some needless trouble calculating courage (we made it more complicated than it was). I need to remember a few small rules regarding battered units but we didnt miss anything major.

I need to work more on the terrain:

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-Roads

-Linear obstacles (some hedges and fences)

-Some scatter items to liven up the table

Painted italians

I have been building and painting a few different groups of miniatures lately and finished the basing on all of them today.

 First out is a group of 8 archers for my red and yellow retinue, this gives me 24 archers with these colours.

 This is my first attempt at going for an italian feel. I have used a wonderful venetian  flag that i bought on ebay (look for Petes_flags)

 Some mounted men at arms seems to be mandatory. I am not sold on the way that the horse armour turned out.

 More horsemen, i am rather pleased with the horses.

I now have a few books to get me started.

Next on the painting table is a large group of crossbowmen, some light infantry and another 12 horses. I have also bought some priests and a few other miniatures to use in scenarios.

Finished rebasing the last retinue

I have finished rebasing the last of batch of miniatures, the "blue retinue". I think that they would look better with some kind of badge or contrasting colour to break up all the blue.

I have also finished a few more forest bases and some buildings from 4ground.

Some more miniatures rebased and some trees.

I have finished the next batch of bases and i have also made a couple of test trees, they turned out better than i had hoped!

 24 Bowmen of the white and green sort

 Men at arms

 2 newly made trees

A small forest!, the scruffy looking conifers are from an earlier attempt but the bases are new.

Rebasing the first batch.

I have started work on the bases, every miniature was mounted on a thin mdf-base so i had to cut them of those first before i glued them on steel washers.

I am rather pleased with how much better they look with the scenic bases. With the next batch i will use some finer sand or leave some areas flat as it was difficult to glue the grass tufts on these.

Some Men at arms, crossbows and command

 24 Billmen

 16 Archers (I am currently painting 8 more)

 Some handguns

I have only textured one tray as a test, might need more grass.

Medieval madness!

It was a long time since i wrote anything here and for now i will just use this spece to store some images.