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The BigRedBatCave: Cremona 69 AD at Salute
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Thursday, 7 May 2015. Cremona 69 AD at Salute. Since Salute I have been frantically busy and haven't had a chance to post any of the photos of the game. What follows is a fairly random selection of pictures of the game taken by Ian Notter (long shots) and Alan Daniels (closeups). First there are some shots of the game before the doors opened:. View down the table. Othonian gladiators row towards the pontoon bridge. XXI Rapax observe the big cavalry melee. A slave fleeing the fighting, with grapes! Gladia...
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The BigRedBatCave: January 2015
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Friday, 30 January 2015. I'm hurrying to finish a new Roman army for the first To the Strongest! Tournament on Saturday week. I'm using the repaint eBay minis technique that I described in Wargames Soldiers Strategy. The knack is to get the minis from 3 or 4 different painters to match- retouching, ink washes and muddying up the shields does a good job of this. It is composed of the smaller Perry minis, with a few Warlord and First Corp for variety. The bases are Impetus-stylee. Links to this post. The R...
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The BigRedBatCave: Crimson and bronze II
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Wednesday, 6 May 2015. Crimson and bronze II. I seem to have painted/repainted an entire unit of 27 Spartans in six nights, which is about as fast as I have ever manages. It was a lot of fun and so I've decided to paint enough to round out one more unit, and some lights. Curiously not one but both of the part-painted units I purchased on eBay had the Spartan lambdas painted upside down! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). You can email me at simonmiller60 at gmail dot com. Follow Bigredbat by Email.
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The BigRedBatCave: August 2014
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Monday, 25 August 2014. These are the last of the figures from Craig Davey, which I've supplemented and based to form the greater part of a Late Roman legion. The Secunda Britannica. Or the Secundani) were the descendants of the old British II Augusta legion that had been based in Caerleon for much of its history. In the Late Roman period they may have been withdrawn to Gaul to deal with the various crises on the frontiers. Links to this post. Saturday, 23 August 2014. Craig did a lovely job on these, in...
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The BigRedBatCave: December 2014
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Wednesday, 24 December 2014. Merry Christmas, everybody! We wish you a merry Christmas,. We wish you a merry Christmas,. We wish you a merry Christmas,. And a Happy New Year! The very best to all my fellow bloggers and visitors! In 2015, may all your dice be sixes and none of your cards Aces. Links to this post. Friday, 19 December 2014. Https:/ www.facebook.com/pages/To-the-Strongest/1557518684461640? Kingdoms of the East. Can I say a huge thank you to everyone who has bought a set of To the Strongest!
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The BigRedBatCave: Fun at the Wargames Holiday Centre
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Tuesday, 19 May 2015. Fun at the Wargames Holiday Centre. I have just enjoyed a splendid long weekend of gaming with Mark Freeth and friends at the Wargames Holiday Centre. I won't write it up at great length (because I may write it up as a magazine piece) but here are a few shots to be going on with (all clickable). Throughout. Everyone seemed to pick the rules up very well, enjoying the card play. In this game a Macedonian phalanx hacked its way up the steep hill between two small woods and past a surp...
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The BigRedBatCave: April 2015
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Tuesday, 28 April 2015. Getting back on the bike. It was great meeting so many friends at Salute, and I'll post about that tomorrow, when I have more time. Today, however, I am getting the copies of To the Strongest! Ready for posting tomorrow and also prepping some Spartans for one of the games I'll be running at the Wargames Holiday Centre on the weekend 15th - 17th May. Links to this post. Friday, 24 April 2015. To the Strongest has landed! Just in the nick of time for Salute. Phew! Orders for deliver...
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The BigRedBatCave: September 2014
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Monday, 29 September 2014. Did I mention that I hate painting Celts? So much for my shortcut. I've been posting rather less frequently, of late, because I've been spending a lot of time getting my "To the Strongest! Rules into a publishable state. With the assistance of a few very helpful chaps who have been spotting errors and inconsistencies, this is going rather well, and today I've been churning out diagrams. Hopefully I'll be able to pick up the modelling and blogging rate in October. Recently I've ...
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The BigRedBatCave: July 2014
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Saturday, 26 July 2014. Res ad triarios venit. Or "It comes down to the triarii! The triarii were the reserve line of the Polybian legion, and if they needed to be committed, then it was a bloody battle that could go either way. These are lovely Aventine. Figures, that I bought beautifully painted from Shaun Watson ( Redzed. Do have a click to enlarge the photos. I've only needed to repaint the plumes to match the colour theme for this legion, and base. And others. This will be one to catch! Roman legion...
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The BigRedBatCave: November 2014
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Saturday, 29 November 2014. You wait years for one Leones Iuniores to come along, and then two arrive at once! Whilst I was finishing the rules, my very own Spanish ulcer. Started playing up very badly, and I've not painted any ancients for a month. Now, however, I'm slowly recovering and am going to base some lovely figures I bought off Shaun Watson. Shaun's unit are the Leones Iuniores. But, I hear you say, surely BigRedBat already owns a unit of Leones Iuniores? Links to this post. The rules come in t...