Landwaster Done

Landwaster X done & dusted, and a disappointing 3 wins from 6 games. Lessons Learned:

1. If you take a cavalry army, people will lay down a waterway every time. Some people will even put down a BUA and waterway so you only have one choice of board edge.
2. You can beat knights with cavalry, but only by mobbing them repeatedly, and they will fight off almost every attempt to kill them at evens or better when hard flanked (as will Bd).
3. Playing with miniatures is a visual experience, and it is time some people painted their army.
4. I hate 2.2 terrain rules.
5. Cv can't beat LH - or to be more precise, my Cav can't beat Stephen Hopkins' LH.
6. It doesn't matter what you roll, ort he advantages you engineer as long as your opponent keeps rolling 5 & 6's.
7. If you take 12 x 50/50 shots, don't be surprised if only one comes off.
8. PIP starvation is death to a cavalry army.

I enjoyed playing with the Ayyubids, but I think I will enjoy them more when 3 is released, terrain becomes more random, and 30" boards are legalised... 

Pics to follow...

Ayyubids Finished

Finished up the Ayyubids..  a quick lacquer spray tomorrow and that's it. I should really be getting more decorative and painting on patterns and dots, and stuff...  but I have bene doing a couple of hours at least a night and I am over it..  besides which, these will form part of a whole DBMM army, and I have another 21 Cavalry elements and about 30 Light Horse elements to paint, so I want them all to be sort of consistent. Basing is the excellent Baccus Basing Kit - with some GW dry/dead grass. All up, I am pretty happy with them.

Ayyubids.. still WIP

I thought I would make myself feel better by getting the Ayyubids photographed. They are by no means complete, but much further along. There are horse harnesses and leather to complete, plus some further decorative effects but I am pretty happy with the results so far. As always I need to work on my photography, but at least I am now reasonably confident they will be finished in time for Landwaster on Sunday.

Why Credit Cards & Alcohol are a Bad Combination

It seems that while drink had been taken, I jumped online the other night...  and ordered 24 figs from Foundry, a die-cast M1A1 tank, and an Essex Later Polish Army pack...  oh well, I can add them to the Gripping Beast SAGA rules and the Brigade Models SAC Frontier Patrol Group that arrived this week...  Must learn self control, must learn self control...

There is only One!

Well, somehow yesterday despite drink being taken, Thomo and I got to play the Rajput vs Teutons game - we finished the DBA Cancon Championships last year with me unbeaten, but we didn't actually play each other. Ever since he has been teasing me that as I hadn't beaten him, it didn't count.

Finally last night, the might of the Teutons faced the Rajputs...  unfortunately, no pictures, and somehow the goose-steppers prevailed. So there is only one. I understand a slightly used Rajput army may be up for sale shortly...

And in other news, it seems Thomo managed to take pictures, and remember what happened...  note that his account may contain traces of bias.... 

There Can only be One

Thomo is due to come over this weekend, I hope he brings his Rajputs, and we can finally play the DBA final we should have had at Cancon... 

DBA Redux

David Lawrence has been a fantastic asset to players of DBA in Canberra and the surrounds. He runs a number of competitions which are always well attended, and has been running Landwaster since 2002. So David being a proactive organiser, started harassing me about what army I will use on Nov 20.

I have cast around, have lots of options - but decided it was a good chance to force myself to finish painting the Ayyubids:

Ayyubid Egyptian, IV/20

1x 3Cv (Gen), 5x 3Cv, 2x 2LH, 1x 3Ax or 3Wb or 7Hd, 2x 4Bw or 2Ps, 1x 2LH or 2Ps 

Not a very competitive army, but should look pretty. The Mirliton minis are nice.


Quick - to the painting cave...