Madaxeman in Spain - 5 ADLG & Tapas Reports from Estella

[madaxeman]

Buono Estente!  An intrepid team of Central London ADLG players continue our pre-Brexit World Tour by taking ourselves off to Estella in Northern Spain, the gateway to La Rioja, and also home to the wines of Navarre <i>(which are of course just as good if not even a little better than those of Rioja, especially if you are playing ADLG with the good gamers of Navarre, like we were)</i>.



In the resulting 5 ADLG match reports and gastronomic and touristic reviews, as well as the accompanying immediately-post-event episode of the http://Madaxeman.com Podcast (this episode entitled Dear Catastrophe Tapas Waitress) you can see how a classic DBx army, the Patrician Romans, fares in ADLG.



This was a deliberate attempt to create a wall of barbarians and overwhelm the enemy by sheer hairyness after this tactic, impossible to do well in most other rulesets, had caused me so much trouble when I had encountered it in several previous events.



The Patrician list that emerged was far from Reigate Standard in all senses of the word, but did they manage to "tapas" into a vein of success in these 5 L'Art de la Guerre battles in Spain, or was their "tinto" spilt and were then instead left like so many huevos rotos on the floor by the pride of Navarre?




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[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice one Tim!

[madaxeman]

I should really give this a go in 10mm one day - the "unit" effect you could get on the bigger basing (even using 15mm size), and the relatively small number of figures to get a viable army would make it not quite so painful a process to duplicate any of my 15mm armies!

[Steve J]

You have been a busy boy of late on your European gaming tour! As always great to read your reports

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I should really give this a go in 10mm one day - the "unit" effect you could get on the bigger basing (even using 15mm size), and the relatively small number of figures to get a viable army would make it not quite so painful a process to duplicate any of my 15mm armies!

You saw my 10mm at Rollcall and Campaign, wait til you see the next batch at Reading!

[fred.]

Another set of most entertaining reports!

Weather looked good in Spain.