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Post by paddy649 on Nov 29, 2023 8:00:45 GMT
WOW! paddy649, three DBA armies in one month is great work. CarlL I do think it is somewhat of a slap in the face of those of us who struggle do do three in a year. Grest work indeed. Oh! I’m bigging it up a bit - they are all pretty small armies. However, the trick is to have a painting box ready to go so that whenever the long haired General goes out you can be painting within a couple of minutes. All those “just nipping outs” don’t half add up!
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Post by martin on Nov 29, 2023 8:27:37 GMT
I finished my Prussians and Estonians today. > Not deadly armies but good opponents for my Teutonic Knights who will give them a run if the table is full of bad going. They will hopefully make for good matched pairs. It’s all about the terrain roll in those clashes, I’d suggest…aggr 4 Teutonics, but scary in the open 😳
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Post by menacussecundus on Nov 29, 2023 9:12:39 GMT
WOW! paddy649, three DBA armies in one month is great work. CarlL I do think it is somewhat of a slap in the face of those of us who struggle do do three in a year. Grest work indeed. Exactly. The Later Amorites and Nubians are done, but I think I shall struggle to complete the Blemmye before the New Year. (But nice work paddy649.)
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Post by Baldie on Nov 29, 2023 13:18:11 GMT
I do think it is somewhat of a slap in the face of those of us who struggle do do three in a year. Grest work indeed. Oh! I’m bigging it up a bit - they are all pretty small armies. However, the trick is to have a painting box ready to go so that whenever the long haired General goes out you can be painting within a couple of minutes. All those “just nipping outs” don’t half add up! Don't spoil the illusion😀
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Post by Haardrada on Nov 29, 2023 14:09:27 GMT
WOW! paddy649, three DBA armies in one month is great work. CarlL I do think it is somewhat of a slap in the face of those of us who struggle do do three in a year. Grest work indeed. I'm usually in that category...only managing 1 or 2 if I'm lucky,but I don't know what's got into me this year as I'm on to my 6th army.🤔
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Post by Baldie on Nov 29, 2023 14:40:52 GMT
I do think it is somewhat of a slap in the face of those of us who struggle do do three in a year. Grest work indeed. I'm usually in that category...only managing 1 or 2 if I'm lucky,but I don't know what's got into me this year as I'm on to my 6th army.🤔 You know this ain't making me feel better right? I already have to put up with a chum who buys a new system at same time as I do then turns up with a beautifully painted force before I even get the side cutters out.
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Post by martin on Nov 29, 2023 20:07:16 GMT
Exactly. The Later Amorites and Nubians are done, but I think I shall struggle to complete the Blemmye before the New Year. (But nice work paddy649 .) Didn’t you do a Bedouin army this year, too, and the Chinese for the Britcon theme?
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Post by menacussecundus on Nov 29, 2023 21:02:20 GMT
Exactly. The Later Amorites and Nubians are done, but I think I shall struggle to complete the Blemmye before the New Year. (But nice work paddy649 .) Didn’t you do a Bedouin army this year, too, and the Chinese for the Britcon theme? No. The Midianites and Spring & Autumn Chinese were last year's output.
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Post by carll on Nov 30, 2023 0:57:56 GMT
Haardrada, Thats putting the boot into poor Baldie.
Mind menacussecundas is adding a few kicks too.
Perhaps could rename Haardrada as "Picta barbarus cum tot exercitibus"
And Menacussecundas as "septem legiones pictor"
Not that Latin is something I know much about, having done schoolboy french and German before discovering Tacitus, Livy, Gaius Julius the self publicist etc..
CarlL alias "Angulus cum multis inch altum stagni hominum"
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Post by martin on Nov 30, 2023 6:56:26 GMT
Didn’t you do a Bedouin army this year, too, and the Chinese for the Britcon theme? No. The Midianites and Spring & Autumn Chinese were last year's output. Time rushes onwards…now I remember ✔️✔️ Saw a few of that version of Chinese armies at the 2022 Britcon.
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Post by Baldie on Nov 30, 2023 8:34:46 GMT
Me too
Didn't see many EAP lists though
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Post by paddy649 on Nov 30, 2023 9:13:50 GMT
CarlL - me too. Some idiot once thought it would be good to give me a term of Greek and 3.5 years of Latin. I hated it and flunked every exam! …but introduce me to Alexander, Cicero and Pompey and I was teaching the languages to myself. So following your example I’ll claim the title “Pictor mille” for this year!
Anyways - what projects is everybody trying to finish before Christmas and/or planning for next year? Me? I’ve got the rump of Warring States Chinese to make my Ch’in army up to “all options” before Christmas. Next year I’m planning to “close the box” and paint the outstanding armies needed to my finish some campaign boxes. So that is Lithuanians for the Northern Crusade box, LAP for the Alexander box and both Vikings and Anglo-Danish for the 1066 box.
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Post by Baldie on Nov 30, 2023 10:46:30 GMT
Really need to finish my basing projects. Then got Gaul/Celt cavalry to do but I expect MESBG will draw me in.
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Post by Haardrada on Nov 30, 2023 11:15:13 GMT
Funny about the popularity of Spring & Autumn armies as that's what I'm trying to finish before the end of the year.
As for 2024 this is my to do list...
Book I(2). I/15. Late Amorite. I/28. Sea Peoples.
Book II(2). II/61c. Other Hsein-pi. II/79. Northern Chinese Dynasty.
Book III(4). III/17. Maurikian Byzantine(+Khazar allies). III/33. Early North African & Scicilian.* III/38. Arab Indian * III/40abc. Viking.
Book IV.(1). IV/26ab. Late Muslim Indian.
* III/38 is a morph of III/10 & III/33. and extra arab Bw elements.
My plan is to do one from each book and hopefully complete at least four armies next year.🤞
I have about six armies at the planning stage (mainly book I and IV as I don't have many of either)and hope to aquire one per year.
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Post by menacussecundus on Nov 30, 2023 11:59:51 GMT
Given that my plans for 2023 didn’t include Later Amorite, Nubian or Blemmye, I’m not going to try to predict my 2024 project(s).
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