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Post by martin on Apr 18, 2024 8:07:29 GMT
Yep, a very generous 20% off, AND many of their figures are cheaper than other manufacturers to start with ! They stock the 15mm ex-TTG Dark Ages and Medievals, which paint up very well (as menacussecundus and paddy649 have shown). Byzantines, Late Romans, Goths, Blemmye, Arab Conquest, generic European Feudal etc….. [my order went in last week 🙂]
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Post by martin on Apr 17, 2024 12:04:57 GMT
One player has unfortunately had to cancel…
Therefore ONE SPACE AVAILABLE…LET ME KNOW ASAP if you’d like the spot. 🙂
(edit…now back to even numbers….for the minute).
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Post by martin on Apr 16, 2024 7:21:04 GMT
There’s a good spread of prizes available at this year’s tournament (thanks in part to donations from Colin, Richard and Mark), plus
## A Bring & Buy* table will be provided: if you have anything you wish to bring, feel free ##
* …or Bring & And Take Back Home, as Pete D. once called it 😎😁
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Post by martin on Apr 16, 2024 7:15:10 GMT
Thanks Nick. I’ll be there 👍🏼. Will try to round up a posse.
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Post by martin on Apr 14, 2024 6:56:42 GMT
Alton DBA update
Greetings all. With Alton DBA just a couple of weeks away, here’s a few reminders…
1. PACKED LUNCH is essential. The new venue is far from any shops, and lunch break is VERY short, to maximise game time.
2. POSTCODE to arrive at Chawton Village Hall - Please use GU34 1SB, The GREYFRIAR PUB, then proceed 100 paces northeast …ie, looking at the pub, go LEFT up the road to the venue. The published postcode for the hall will lead you astray. Free parking at the venue
3. Bring your ARMY**, a written LIST for your opponent to use including terrain choice, aggression and topography, a CAMP, your FIXED LEGAL TERRAIN CHOICE items and the usual rules, dice, rulers etc. 2ft boards will be provided
4. Arrive 09:30-0950*. We hope to start ASAP after 10:00. Finish time will be around 16:45. +/-.
5. Arrival by PUBLIC TRANSPORT. Contact me if you plan to arrive by train, and provide a mobile phone number. Mark S. has volunteered to collect players from the Alton Railway Station (+ one player from the Alton House Hotel).
6. Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.
7. Any ‘on the day’ travel issues, contact me on 07981 221687.
Cheers…see you there ✔️✔️✔️
*late arrivals - your allocated game 1 opponent will claim a win, with 20 points. **which must contain at least SIX from the LH, Ps and/or LCm troop types. NO DISMOUNTING LITHUANIANS.
Cheers
Martin
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Post by martin on Apr 14, 2024 6:53:52 GMT
Congrats on the podium, AND a painting prize!! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Great effort. ✔️
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Post by martin on Apr 13, 2024 7:55:59 GMT
Well, Paddy…I started 15mm a loooooong time ago, so got very set in my ways, and am hence unlikely to change BUT IF 10mm to the standard of Pendraken had been an option back then, well maybe I would have gone for that instead. Better mass effect, and easy enough to paint, especially to my ‘2ft rule’ standard.
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Post by martin on Apr 10, 2024 16:31:22 GMT
Eligible armies are: II/81d Strathclyde III/18 Breton III/19a Welsh III/21b Lombard III/24b Anglo-Saxon Army III/33 Early Muslim North Africa & Sicily III/34b Andalusian III/35b Feudal Spanish III/40b Viking III/45 Pre-Feudal Scots Army III/46 Norse Irish III/52 West Frankish or Norman Army III/53 East Frankish III/65 Nikephorian Byzantine Army III/66 Fatimid Egyptian Army III/72 Anglo-Danish III/73a Communal Italian Army III/76 Konstantinian Byzantine Army III/77 Papal Italian Army Allies may be used, even if not themselves on the list above, but only if in effect somewhere in the 1016 to 1066 date range and only as allies, not as core army. Just thinking, this looks like a good tournament theme 👍🏼👍🏼. Lots of variety, and rock-paper-scissors armies. Who has ‘signed up’?
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Post by martin on Mar 30, 2024 8:33:28 GMT
First time I’ve painted plastic 15mm and it’s an ‘interesting’ experience 😉 P What’s the main difference, Paul?
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Post by martin on Mar 30, 2024 8:11:24 GMT
One in the back, one in the front and two in the glove compartment. How do you get two whales in a mini? Across the Severn Bridge, IIRC…..🏴
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Post by martin on Mar 29, 2024 20:35:40 GMT
Tell me
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Post by martin on Mar 29, 2024 19:11:37 GMT
Emails sent out to those on the current list…if you THINK you’ve booked but received no email/message let me know.
Cheers
Martin
How do you get two elephants in a mini?(seeing as elephant references seem obligatory). 😁
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Post by martin on Mar 29, 2024 19:08:32 GMT
I liked it that there were roll-over-able camps because I think camp attacks were a thing and the rules make camps too strong. Plus it added one more point of diversity to the circuit. But I agree that, one way or the other, the rule should be sorted out in advance. …nothing to stop the owning player deploying an element in his camp, apart from having to play with a football team worth instead of the standard dozen.
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Post by martin on Mar 29, 2024 15:50:17 GMT
Just to be clear about the camp followers issue. No one asked the umpires about this (apart from we were asked about factors when LH attacked a camp) and no one, as far as I can remember, specifically stated one way or another in their army lists whether it did or did not have camp followers. Therefore had I been asked on the day, I agree with and would have followed Martin S's ruling that all camps have followers in them. If they are provided as an element then they may sally out, otherwise they are in there and will defend the camp. However we weren't asked so didn't interfere. If people want to use this as a ruling for next year then we're happy to adopt it, but I think it has to be agreed up front so everyone is aware and I presume then everyone will not include camp followers? I’d even brought a spare camp and camp follower element in case there was none shown….but exactly how the army’s provider would have ruled on this one is a moot point.
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Post by martin on Mar 29, 2024 12:53:53 GMT
Hi Martin, owing to incompetence I thought I would be away at the end of April and now will not be. I think I'm too late, though, for a place at Alton. Am I right? Yours, Paul Hi Paul Well….currently all places are taken, but I have you down on the reserves list, further to our conversation at Stannington. Over the next couple of days there may well be a ‘reminder’ going out to all who have signed up, just in case anyone has fergotted…after that I can reassess. But you’re not forgotten, Paul. Martin S.
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