Wow! Michael Stonyer was at the Hutt Valley Wargaming Club yesterday and took these great pics of two superbly painted armies. Both are French Ordonnance: Philip Gates’s Royal army (viva la France!) vs Gary Lewis’s Breton rebels (je suis Breton!). The venue, the library at St Patrick’s College, Silverstream, has the perfect ambience for the game.
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| Part of Philip Gates’s French Ordonnance, Royal army |
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| More of Philip Gates’s French Ordonnance, Royal army |
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| Part of Gary Lewis’s French Ordonnance, Breton army |
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Phil
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Gary and Phil
Vineyard…so must truly be France |
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| Gary and Phil, and Wilfred Redpath and Richard Mason deep in conversation. Given the game, two French Ordonnance armies at each other, a bottle of pastis for Wilf and Richard to share would have been entirely appropriate. Santé! |
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| Gary in action - the dice were … |
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| Phil in action |
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| Gary and Phil getting stuck in. |
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| A “crang!” of gendarmes |
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Battle is joined in the centre. And the last message from Mike:
“And there I had to leave them as the two armies locked in a life and death struggle broke for lunch  ”
Another cliffhanger! What happened? |
Gavin Pearson Yeah, the figures I painted don't quite match up. The mounted figures painted by John Conroy are superb.
