Art De La Guerre

[madaxeman]

In a truly surprising development, 4 "traditional format" read-along battle reports are now available for anyone who wishes to follow the varied exploits of a deeply smelly and unwashed Ilkhanid Mongol army in stunning hyper-colour and (mostly) 28mm plastic, as they take on the Samurai, the Ghaznavids, the Burmese and finally the Mongols of Timur the Lame down in the heart of the West Country at Attack! 2024's ADLG competition.



Thrill as the Armenian-supported Ilkhanids send waves of fragrant dancing cavalry, eager unwashed knights and reluctant yet deeply sweaty spearmen out to fight a variety of almost equally colourful foes, including Mighty Shrew Elephants dressed in patchwork duvets ...



..bare-chested Burmese jungle dwelling tribesmen who can wiggle all of their toes independently, and...


.. the "I can't believe it's not Seleucid" Elephant Corps of Tamerland the Great and his horde of partly undead warriors and cannon fodder.

Yes, this is a possibly welcome (YVMV) return to the old-school of battle report blogging, with rubbish captions, a probably unhealthy focus on the Mongol's poor personal hygiene, ridiculously OTT descriptive sentence structures, and the musings of both the Ilkhanid Khan and (of course) Nasty Hannibal himself to reconsider all of the action at the end of each game.

These battle reports are accompanied by the "Melksham, Don't Mind if I do!" edition of the Madaxeman (Video) Podcast.
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[KevinD]

Great (and humorous) report. Thanks!

Did your artillery do anything all weekend?

[madaxeman]

[Black Prince]

Thanks Tim for the old style battle report it is a good read. What was your final placing for the comp?

[madaxeman]

[Mark G Fry]

Results for the 2024 Devizes 25mm ADLG competition:

Position-name -points - army

1 Ian Speed 324 Burmese
2 Charles Masefield 306 Timurid
3 Mark Clarke 294 Tamil Indian
4 Andrew Whitby 280 Tibetan
5 Tim Porter 263 Ilkhanid Mongol
6 Max Irving 238 Later Samurai
7 Mark Fry 224 Later Samurai
8 Stephen Royle 222 Ghaznavid
9 Tony Rodwell 217 Burmese
10 Will Morriss 210 Samurai
11 Chris Jackson 203 Warring States
12 Don McHugh 194 Classical Indian
13 Chris Richards 176 Indonesian and Malay
14 Bevan Marchand 153 Graeco-Bactrian and Graeco-Indian
15 Dave Allen 149 Graeco-Bactrian and Graeco-Indian
16 Jason Scott 128 Samurai
17 Richard Walker 162 Graeco-Bactrian and Graeco-Indian
18 Tony Bell 116 Han Chinese

There was also a well attended 15mm competition as well.
Cheers
Mark
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