The Viking are coming... the Vikings are coming ...

Keith hosted another DBA evening this week and six players got together for some games. I think we each played three games.

For me it was a chance to get my recently completed 15mm Vikings on the table, against my Saxons, as a matched pair of armies (we prefer to do that these days, where we have matched pairs). The Viking army I painted up is the (a) option with 10 x Fast Blade, 1 x Solid Blade General, and a Psiloi. It's the first time I have used a mostly fast blade combo, and I was fascinated by how the battle quickly became fragmented as the blade either pursued when they won, or fell back when they drew or lost a combat. I have to say, I enjoyed using them.

Just a small selection of photos from across the three games.

 

Union cavalry

This week's painting effort has been directed to painting two additional regiments of 15mm cavalry for the ACW Union army. As I've run out of the god old 'piano wire' I use for flags and standards, the stands are still awaiting their pennants (as are the infantry brigades completed a little wire ago. Good things take time, eh 

The figures are mostly old Freikorps, with a couple of Minifigs in there. I'm not that happy with the horse poses, but as they say ... 'it is what it is'.

As we play using the Volley and Bayonet rules, I need to now paint up two 'linear' infantry stands to represent these regiments if they dismount (something more often than not the advisable course of action when fighting ACW battles). So, before I do the same for the CSA army .. those linear stands.

Garibaldi et al

 This week's Volley and Bayonet outing took place in the early early 1860s in a battle between the troops of Garibaldi and the Neopolitans. As usual, simply a short photo essay of the 15mm troops and buildings, all the work of Adrian.  The historical battle saw Garibaldi reinforcing his meagre initial forces by train. The central town which was one of the key objectives changed hands six times during the game.. frenetic action indeed!!! Casualties were heavy on both sides. Garibaldi won out in the end, but it was a damned close run thing.

I'll leave the photos to speak for themselves.