For King James

 After a few weeks poor Rob was well enough to make it to the club, he brought a Jacobite scenario using Muskets and Tomahawks rules, strangely though these Jacobites were in Welsh Wales. The lord of the manor was a Jacobite supporter (based on a real person) and had at his disposal a number of Scots left behind when the lads returned north and sundry others loyal to the 'king over the water'. Myself and Ian were the local government troops tasked with capturing said big wig and taking him to the nearest gaol.

As we approached the manor there was a party in full swing and we held off until several hogsheads of ale and porter were imbibed in order to make our mission easier, sadly as Ian's troops moved on the main building they knocked out a drunk sentry who dropped his musket and the shot alerted all and sundry. Ian's men now took on some militia in a nearby barn and was roundly whipped while his remaining troops invaded the 'big hoose'. I charged another barn and beat up the militia hiding there before moving to support Ian, I was fairly slow but managed to pick up a suspect from the mob escaping the mayhem in the manor, he was either the lord or his brother.

The Manor.

My boys arrive.

Several civilians ran around like headless or rather drunk chickens, I managed to hold off several attacks and make my way to the departure point, most of the enemy now seemed to concentrate on Ian's men and a great many bit the dust. I did begin to wonder just how many Jacobite sympathisers were in this part of Wales. Just as I got close to my objective more of those disloyal types managed to bar my exit, however despite several furious melees I managed to get my hostage to safety, but only just, it turned out he was m'lud's brother. I think we also got the man himself or perhaps he was killed in the confusion, someone in fine clothes was.

Jacobite supporters.

My stalwart lads ready to head home.

A fine bash and well run by Rob with his usual trademark stunts "do you really want to look in those barrel's in the courtyard?" 

I have completed yet another unit for the Romans, an auxiliary cohort stationed on the Rhine frontier, V Dalmatarum, a veteran cohort who had all been given Roman citizenship for their service. I have another to paint but have decided to take a rest from heavy infantry and instead do a unit of skirmish archers. I am painting these guys a lot quicker than I thought I would. 

I have dug out the red carpet here in the Bunker for some wargaming royalty (tongue firmly in cheek). David Bickley of GHQ popped in on Thursday and we spent a good time chatting on various topics of our great hobby. I also have Rob Broom coming for a couple of days gaming on Sunday so I will be busy. My Seleucids and the Thunderbolts will be out in force, our third game will be a large Dark Age bash. Depending on how we get on we might manage a small Bolt Action game before he leaves on Tuesday. I am really looking forward to these games. Rob is bringing Spartans and his Masai, the latter I think I have already said are beautiful and will be pretending to be a Warband army, think Celts with feathers. The last time the Twelfth fought them back in 2016 I got a Triumph out of it, can I repeat this feat of arms?

I have also been busy on the map front, I have a couple of projects which for some reason seem to be never ending, a correction here, an amendment there. I have started on the Arab-Israeli atlas and am looking forward to seeing the printed version of Wargaming the Italian Wars after its debut at Salute, I have seen a proof and it is wargaming eye candy at its best.

Arab-Israeli atlas.

 

History of 8th Virginia Regiment AWI.

 

History of Saudi Arabia.