Mad Lemmey's Painting Blog

 "Cue Harmonica music" "Cue tumbleweed" ""Stuntman fall off roof" Cliff very kndly agreed to take me through a game or three of 'Dead Man's Hand - Redux', which allowed me to get out a batch of 28mm Wils West figures that I probably haven't used since the days of Warhammer: Legends of The Old West which we played in 2004 onwards! Think I might even have sold mine. But I still have a gang of Lawmen, and a squad of US Infantry too. Cliff only has the basic rules (otherwise my Commanche might well have come out), so Lawmen it was!  The game splits into three 'Scenes', basically scenarios. One player is the good guy (I am the law), the other the baddie, and many old movies get quoted!  Scenario 1:  The bad guys take afront at the new guy in town and call him out in the street: In this case, my Marshal (yes, many were black, especially in the Post-Civil War era, it was a well-paid position) faces off against three of Cliff's tou...

Nick, his son Will, and I got together for a game of ' Sabresquadron ', which we have not played since before Lockdown 1. Nick wrote the rules, and they are great. He had been building a Black Horse Cavalry force, and I dug out my Timecast 10mm Soviets , ready for a good old-fashioned, fight! My force T-64B (AT-8) company command 2 x 3 strong T-64B (AT-8) platoons 1 x 3 BMP1 infantry platoon, with attached grenade launchers 1 x 3 BMP1 recee platoon. 1 x ZSU-23-4 Shilka 1 x AOP with 122mm artillery on call The terrain was fairly open, two small hills centrally bracket the road, the jam factory cones off the spur, and two woods hold the right. There was also a hill on the right. Deployment- as I outnumbered Nick and Will, they deployed half their force, I deployed everything, then they get to choose where the other 50% of their kit begins I opted for a hard left hook, leaving a tank platoon and the ZSU to hold that flank. The US forces had a squad nestled in on the rear of the ...