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Preparing for Partizan
 I'm busy getting stuff ready for a slightly extended version of the big Salute Ipsus game, next Sunday at Partizan. This means adding some more units and tweaking the scenario. Mostly I need extra...
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Thessalians for Partizan
I'm dashing around basing a few final things for Sunday's huge Ipsus game at Partizan in Newart-upon-Trent. Above are two new squadrons of Thessalian cavalry in their famous rhomboids, freshly...
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Ipsus at Partizan
Hello all, I'll be at Partizan in Newark-on-Trent on Sunday- the award-winning To the Strongest! Salute game, as above, but slightly larger. If you wan to drop by for a chat, please do! Better still,...
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Ipsus at Partizan- the close-ups!
Chum Ian Notter shot some great images of our huge "To the Strongest!" Ipsus game at Partizan, which was a slightly extended version of the Saltue game. All the photos will enlarge if you click on...
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Last 48 hours of the Early Summer Sale in the BigRedBatShop
It's the final 48 hours of my early summer sale of various to the Strongest!-related products, including the rules, army lists, various wobbly-edged bases, chits, magnetic basing materials and terrain....
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Racking
Above, today I've been racking the BigRedBatCave. The main cave is around 30' long by 6' high and should take a good few minis, although, I fear, by no means all of them. It should enable me to reduce...
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Racking II and prepping
It has been on the hot side for painting, so I've either been writing TtS! army lists (for the July-Ancients and August-Medieval releases), racking the BigRedBatCave or prepping minis. Above is the...
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Portable Parthians
 I have, perhaps unwisely, started another army. I have a gap for a lightweight ancient army that I can carry on the train to distant tournaments such as Britcon and Godendag or Glasgow. These are the...
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Nine out of forty cats
One of my four major projects for this year is to get a long-projected Parthian army on the table. Phase I includes these forty cataphracts, which is more than enough for a standard To the Strongest!...
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Some of our cataphracts are missing
I finally managed to get hold of some decent metallic spray primers and seized a narrow window in the weather (between too hot and too wet!) to prime the cataphracts. I went mainly steel and gold, with...
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Wofun Fun
Recently I've bought a collection of the Wofun printed miniatures. I wanted them because most of my armies aren't portable in anything less than a large people carrier (!), whereas I can pack two large...
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Very Late Romans
Here are two units of Early Imperial Romans that Shaun painted for me some 4-5 years ago. They've been waiting patiently in a storage box for their transfers and finishing, for far too long. They are...
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Test Ostrogoth Lancer
 Recently I've come to the conclusion that I need some portable armies that I can take to wargames clubs or carry on the train, to tournaments. These will need to be primarily plastics, for reason of...
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Wofun II
Last night we played a very entertaining game at the London Wargaming Guild Guild in Seven Dials. This time we pitted some of my newly-acquired (and very portable) Wofun Caesarians against a Wofun...
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Yellow legion progress
I'm making some progress with the veteran Saleh minis, which will be part of my 2024 Salute game. Yesterday, now I have my trusty painting light* back, I extended the lovely LBMS shield designs to the...
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Black Shields
Here are a couple of work-in-progress shots of the black shielded-twins of yesterday's yellow shields. again I've extended the transfers (which are designed for the slightly smaller Perry shields) to...
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Herding Cats
I'm currently working on a Parthian army, but I've been enjoying the build stage (maybe it's the plastic glue fumes) and may be overdoing it. I have around 60 assembled and primed, so far, against a...
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Late Knights
The Britcon tournament is coming up like a train, and I realised that I urgently need a unit of dismounted knights for my army. Luckily, I found 20-odd prepped minis and am doing a rush paint and base...
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Late Knight Progress
The Britcon later knights are mostly finished, just a little snagging and basing to do. I'm agonising a little about the basing. Firstly, my mounted units are 18 strong so a dismounted unit of foot...
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Late Knight Redux
I decided to go with the minimalist option of 6 knights per base, and they are ready for grouting. I might highlight the faces, I think I over-inked them, somewhat. This leaves me with a bunch of spare...
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