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Title: Homers The Silly-iad: 5 Madaxeman Mycenean Reports
Post by: madaxeman on 18 January 2023, 09:44:31 AM
Quote from: madaxemanAfter freezing our nads off at the Ascot racecourse last year, the 2022 edition of Warfare turned up the heating significantly with a trip to the desert in a Biblical-themed competition at the all-new Farnborough venue.

(https://www.madaxeman.com/images/gamereportimages/Warfare_2022/IMGP8100.JPG)

That meant the Linear B tactics of an improved and enhanced Mycenean army got to have a run out in five games of L'Art de la Guerre, all laced with dreadful poetry, terribly inappropriate speech-bubble captions, almost no tactics and even a smattering of your best quality American Ska-Punk in a series of reports punningly now known as Homer's The Silly-iad.

(https://www.madaxeman.com/images/gamereportimages/Warfare_2022/IMGP8142.JPG)

There was a young man called Achilles,
Anyone that he fought got the willies,
He had a big horse,
(It was wooden, of course!),
And a penchant for terrible ditties!
(Homer, The Silly-iad)

(https://www.madaxeman.com/images/Figures/15mmAnc/Mycenean/IMGP0538.JPG)

Read on to experience the full poetic horror of these 5 match reports!

https://madaxemandotcom.blogspot.com/2023/01/homeric-poetry-in-linear-motion-warfare.html
Title: Re: Homers The Silly-iad: 5 Madaxeman Mycenean Reports
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 18 January 2023, 11:00:32 AM
Looks great !
Title: Re: Homers The Silly-iad: 5 Madaxeman Mycenean Reports
Post by: Heedless Horseman on 18 January 2023, 01:40:56 PM
Nice! Interesting little war... troop tactics and 'Heroics'.
Title: Re: Homers The Silly-iad: 5 Madaxeman Mycenean Reports
Post by: mmcv on 19 January 2023, 09:00:21 AM
Great period and set of games
Title: Re: Homers The Silly-iad: 5 Madaxeman Mycenean Reports
Post by: Big Insect on 19 January 2023, 09:47:16 AM
Another outstanding & inspirational madaxeman ADLG competition report .... Homeric greek is on my todo list ... so many armies but so little time (sigh)
Title: Re: Homers The Silly-iad: 5 Madaxeman Mycenean Reports
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 19 January 2023, 10:55:43 AM
Mark - WORK FASTER
Title: Re: Homers The Silly-iad: 5 Madaxeman Mycenean Reports
Post by: mmcv on 20 January 2023, 10:54:16 AM

QuoteAnother outstanding & inspirational madaxeman ADLG competition report .... Homeric greek is on my todo list ... so many armies but so little time (sigh)
I embarked on a fairly large Trojan War project which is still ongoing, weirdly every time I look at my army lists after reading or listening to something about it I seem to add another unit or two or decide a previous unit needs a somewhat different composition, it's very vexing...  :-\