Men-at-Arms Round-Up

A fourth body of mounted Men-at-Arms emerges from the painting desk.  Like the others before, these eight nobles are 28mm Perry Miniatures' plastic figures.

With these troopers, there are now 32 mounted men to push into battle.  Being able to muster four units of horsemen ought to be enough horsepower for many of the scenarios I may wish to refight.  Still, several boxes of these cavalrymen remain in The Lead Pile (Hmm, with the introduction of plastic figures into a collection, I wonder if my nomenclature ought to be more inclusive?).  Before I return to sticking together more cavalry, there are stacks of boxes of infantry to assemble and paint.

With the cavalry arrayed in depth, this is a formidable looking force, no?

On Thursday, I joined Peter (Grid based wargaming) for an introduction to WWII air combat using Blood Red Skies.  Peter details our exploits in that initial game at the link above.  

We began with single aircraft dogfights but after several turns, we added in an additional aircraft each.  While the one-on-one combat was more cat and mouse with me never really making much progress, once we added in a second aircraft piloted by veterans, the conclusion came rapidly.  I am still trying to work my head around a novel "Advantage System" where "Advantage" has dual meanings whether in altitude or state.  Good fun but I will need some more air hours before I am confident enough to put up a decent fight.  I need to earn my wings...