Basic Impetus and update

Some new pictures for you while I decide what to do next. I'm currently working on a box of Warlord Games US infantry. I've already painted 14 of them and have 6 left that are built and primed so for my next post I'll do an overview of my painting process with some decent pictures. In the meantime....

Here are a couple of shots from a test game of Basic Impetus. We were using the army lists for War of the roses armies. The game mechanics seemed ok, I think we need to try it with a bit more scenery though to make it less of a "smash into each other" affair. Not bad for a first effort though. For the history buffs, I'm sorry. As the blog progresses you'll see I don't go in for completely historically accurate uniforms, banners, flags etc. That level of detail just doesn't interest me.

For my War of the Roses Lancastrian army I just painted the figs in colours I had and looked nice. For the flags I bought a pack of Battle of Barnet flags at the Salute show in London and used whichever took my fancy.

Welcome

As this is the first post on here there's nobody actually reading this! This blog is hopefully going to add a bit of insight into getting armies on the table including scenery for not massive outlays of either time or money.

I'm not the most patient of people and the building and painting of figures and scenery is not for me the best part of the hobby, it's the games themselves. Sure, the satisfaction of finishing some figures is great but if it's between speed painting twenty figs in one sitting or getting one competition winner done, I'll take the former every time. My main goal when painting up armies is speed. At the end of the day, if they look good on the table, that's good enough for me. I'll be posting up lots of pictures over the coming weeks showing results I get. I'm not a great painter and never will be but I'm happy with the results and if others get something out of it, great.

For starters, here are a couple of shots I've quickly found...

First up, Celts. I bought these to try out Saga rules but haven't yet gotten round to playing it. In the background are some cowboys for Dead Man's Hand and in the rear some Perry plastic archers for Basic Impetus.

Next up, the Dead Man's Hand cowboys before washing and basing. These figures were from Dixon Miniatures.

Oliver Cromwell leading the troops into battle. Sadly this was just before he screwed up his order causing a blunder and taking his troops off the table!

Finally a shot from our recent Pike and Shotte battle. Troops in action. Most of the figs are from the Warlord Games Pike and Shotte series

That's it for now. Next time I'll do some better close ups of some figs and a run down of my process for painting. Cheers