The Lockdown Podcast - A Second Episode!

This week in the second episode of the Madaxeman Podcast Lockdown Specials the intrepid band of non-adventurers chunter on about topics as diverse as Ancient Britons, the merits and inherent risks of ordering Strippers online, how historic family bereavements can get in the way of wargaming, beer festivals in your bedroom, the psychology of Dremel-denial, whether Challenger 2000 or Shock of Impact was the most complex historical ruleset ever produced, choosing armies for non-competitions, Norman shields, and the age old question, what might be the crappest thing on eBay right now?

There is also the start of a brand new regular feature, Andy Finkel-kel-kel-kel's brand new Weekly Quiz (with it's own theme tune)!

Sit back, dip your paint brush in your water pot (try to avoid the coffee..) and enjoy.  

"Makes me wish I'd been hit in both ears, not just one eye at the battle of Corsica in 1758" : Lord Horatio Nelson

Cold Wars 2020 - the ADLG lists

With the whole concept of tabletop wargaming agianst other real people fast receding into the mists of time, here are the L'Art de la Guerre army lists used by me and my opponents at the last event pre-Covid to be held in the continental USA, Cold Wars 2020

300 AP Doubles Lists

• Sassanid Persian
• Classical Indian
• 100 YW French
• Alexander The Great

200 AP Singles lists

• Sassanid Persian
• Maccabean Jewish
• Early Aechemenid Persian
• Graeco Bactrian

Match reports are under preparation as we speak...

15mm Forged in Battle Scythians

Madaxeman Podcast-participant Dave Saunders has been chewing through a Forged in Battle Scythian kickstarter army in the last week or so of being furloughed, and has kindly shared some pictures of his work with the podcast WhatsApp group

In the interests of putting as much eye candy out there as possible to inspire you whilst we are all locked in our houses I've taken the liberty of sharing them here as well.

These guys also now appear in the Skythian folder as some of the 3,600 photos now in the 15mm Ancients Figure Gallery 

1/300th Modern Desert War Brits on eBay

With time at home to sort stuff like this out, I'm now selling on eBay a huge, fully painted, mostly Heroics & Ros 1/300th micro-armour British Gulf War and earlier (or, as it has Challengers AND Chieftains, something that could also be used for Omani's, or even as part of an Iranian armoured force?) battlegroup.

As well as the tanks and APC's there are also a host of options including air support from a Tornado, as well as some fairly retro mid 70's and 80's support vehicles.

eBay Link to auction

This is all just part of an even larger collection which I had when much younger and is now being downsized to more manageable proportions.

The auction ends on April 5th at 8pm BST, the models are almost all Heroics & Ros but there may be a couple of other makes in there as well for some of the vehicle types

The set includes:

• 13 Challengers
• 12 Warrior IFV's 
• 20 Chieftains
• 10 Saracen 6-wheeler APC's
• 8 Saxon 4-wheeler APC's
• 15 Scorpion/Scimitar light tanks 
• 4 Striker (Swingfire?) ATGW variants on the Scorpion chassis
• 3 Ferret recce vehicles 
• 5 Long wheelbase and 5 normal Land Rovers 
• A command set of 2 FV432's and a command vehicle variant 
• 1 Tornado, which is painted with Saudi roundels (so it only needs a couple of blobs of red white and blue to restore to RAF service if you so wish)

This lot would set you back just over £50 in unpainted lead from Heroics and Ros if you wanted to buy them today (tanks are 75p, other vehicles are 65p each according to their website), but these guys are good to go right now straight out of the packet - or with a simple and very quick wash with something from Army Painter and perhaps a drag over with a drybrush they'll really "pop" even more.

The models are packed and ready to be despatched promptly on receipt of payment. I have worked out that I can print postage from Royal Mail online and drop them in a post box at the end of my road as part of my one legally-permitted self-isolating walk of the day, so no worries about any delays in getting them to you either

10% of the final price will go to SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity supportiung ex-service personnel and their families across the UK.