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The Madaxeman.com PodcastAlicante Ahoy!In a new start to 2025, the first episode of the tentatively titled "Series 5" hits the airwaves as 4 brave podcasting gamers make the trip to the South of Spain in mid January to take in the Akra Leuka tournament at the upmarket Benidorm that is Alicante.
We also take in the Worlds Largest Collection of Model Tanks, the current state of play with which 15mm metal casting companies are currently closing down, whether "Paella" is actually just "Rice" with a different postcode, if a War Wagon collapses in the forest can a Swiss Pikeman hear it fall, if...2025-01-291h 40The Madaxeman.com PodcastMelksham? Don't mind if I do!A rare reappearance for the Madaxeman Podcast as a part new, part old crew heads down to the West Country for a bit of Hard Rock, a lot of beer, pubs and food, and eventually some rather eclectic analysis of a variety of unsuccesful army lists from the recent ADLG competitions held at the Attack! show in Devizes.
Join me, Dave from The Podcast, Another Dave (technically "the Dave formerly known as Pants"), Jason and Steve as we take you gently down Melksham Way.
(Apologies in advance for some of the audio - there are a...2024-08-041h 25The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 100 - The Alicante Lists PodcastDisproving the old adage that the best things in life are worth waiting for, the 100th episode of the Madaxeman Podcast thunders onto the airwaves with an epic, 6-handed special all the way from Spain, as myself, Dave From The Podcast & Aussie Simon are joined by Gordon, Revolutionary Dave and Mark to discuss and digest the lists we all used at the recent Alicante competition.
That means there is some sort of analysis of the Ancient Britons, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Mithradatics, Warring States Chinese and the countless hordes of Aztecs shoehorned in among some tourism discussions, culinary observations, and...2024-02-031h 58The Madaxeman.com PodcastRoll Call 2023 : The Top 5 ListsIt's been a while since we've done an ADLG Army List podcast, but with the recent Roll Call event throwing up some really interesting lists in a 15mm theme called The Roman Pond (armies and enemies of the Roman Republic & Empire that could have dipped their toes in the Med) it seemed like an ideal opportunity to delve back into the theory of list design yet again.
In this episode not only do we go through the lists of the top 5 placed 15mm players, we also have 2 of the top 5 in the Podcast "studio" (aka Zoom call...2023-04-241h 10The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Normandy LandingsYes, a rare in-the-field podcast in which a team of 3 (me, Dave from the Podcast and Mike) storm the beaches of Normandy to visit Bayeux, Le Havre, several seaside gun positions, Pegasus Bridge, Rouen and Dieppe whilst also finding time to fit in a bit of Norman-themed ADLG competition action in between numerous bouts of eating, drinking, discussing former Fulham players of the last decade, and many other regionally appropriate activities.
As such, sound quality is a little sketchy in some parts of this podcast, mainly on account of the fact a number of the individual segments...2023-04-141h 24The Madaxeman.com PodcastLe Herring Rouge!The only wargames podcast to tell you all you ever wanted to know about waterfly larvae returns with a springtime Easter (Not All That) Special episode in which we execute the usual discursive tour through a multitude of topics, asking all of the key questions including;
Just how much are plastic figures nowadays?
Who makes the best Byzantines and why is it Aventine?
Are two packets enough to count as a new range?
Salute! Where to go, How to get there, What to buy, and most important When to roll up at the door
There's also a t...2023-04-071h 27The Madaxeman.com PodcastSeries 3 Opener : Huge Grenadier Hat MalarkeyAfter a barren 5 month interregnum a mathematical majority of the Madaxeman Podcast crew stumble grudgingly back onto the airwaves with a near-2-hour episode to kickstart the 3rd series.
Any semblance of order, structure and giving the impression of planning is almost instantly thrown out of the window as we immediately go off tangent in a fascinating discussion around the origin (and ending) of the entire concept of a Grenadier, before we swerve decisively into some surprisingly well informed opinions about 3D printing, consider whether the long time coming Dire Straits revival will include a remixed Europop s...2022-10-071h 58The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe North Macedonia All StarsIn this March & April episode the full suite of seven engage in an unexpected discussion comparing Warlord and GW's "Contrast"/ "Speed" paints that occasionally veers into actual proper wargaming podcast territory at times. Keeping with this unusual approach there is also a bit of a chat about 3D printing and the gentle wave of retirements washing across the traditional manufacturers and retailers in the historical space, and what that may mean for the hobby in the short and medium term.
Fortunately this proper content is more than counterbalanced by an episode of World of Wor-Wor-War Sports punditry...2022-03-311h 41The Madaxeman.com PodcastBadly Scripted BeerThe Ides of March are upon us, and so it must be time for Episode 5 of Series 2 of the Madaxeman Podcast.
This week a 6-handed episode sees extensive coverage of the Painting Challenge, discussion of competitions, restaurants and public houses of all flavours and dimensions in the pseudo-industrial brewing town of Burton Upon Trent, forward-planning of a kind rarely seen outside of a gold spray tan booth online booking system, an almost-ISITYAA discussion of Why DBA is the best ruleset ever written (and a simultaneous demonstration that we very clearly and absolutely don't script any of the...2022-03-071h 41The Madaxeman.com PodcastAlicante Ahoy!Another year, another brand new experiment as we unleash a multi-session podcast recorded "in the studio" in the UK (aka on Zoom), "in the field" abroad (aka in a bar in Spain), and "in the 1980's" (aka in a coffee shop back in London with overly loud music playing in the background) in which some of the regular crew initially preview, then discuss half way through, and finally review the recent L'Art de la Guerre competition held in Alicante in Spain in January 2022.
We are also joined by a number of special guests, and an even greater...2022-01-301h 16The Madaxeman.com PodcastChristmas for BadgersIn what is likely to become this year's Christmas episode by dint of us almost certainly failing to find time to record another one in the next few weeks, the full Madaxeman podcast crew reconvene online to witter aimlessly about what they have been up to since the last podcast (which could be a description for almost any podcast on any subject come to think of it..)
As well as the usual painting chat, we unpick the piratey bones from the recent Brixham Devonian Classic ADLG competition, which saw 36 players gather for chips, beer, invigorating coastal walks a...2021-12-131h 35The Madaxeman.com PodcastOim Spartacus!After every hiatus comes a podcast, and this week is no different as the full Madaxeman podcast team return somewhat grudgingly from an extended break of actually playing games, going outside and doing proper things in the real world - or in Tamsin's case, making one helluva lot of trees and shaving a few towels in the process - and step up out of their basements, dust off their parchment rulesets and head to their microphones to share their lack of wargames wisdom...
The end result is a decidedly unscripted second (and first non-ADLG-specific) podcast of a n...2021-10-311h 22
God’s Own Scale PodcastEpisode 39 - The one with the Madaxeman, Tim Porter.Thanks to all round Mr Nice Guy, Tim Porter, the ubiquitous Madaxeman of wargaming. Huge apologies for the delay in releasing this epsiode, after saying to Tim it would be out in a couple of days, its actually taken me close on two weeks due to some I.T. issues.
Thank you to the listeners for your continued support and I hope you enjoy the episode!
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2021-10-291h 43The Madaxeman.com PodcastADLGv4 List Building : The BHGS Teams 2021 - the top 6 listsAnother tentative step back towards recording and publishing a regular podcast this autumn sees the usual list review team of me, Dave and Richard pore over the 6 lists used by the members of the top 2 placed teams from the recent BHGS Teams L'Art de la Guerre event held in London in September 2021.
The event was themed into 3 separate pools : Biblical, armies with Steppe terrain, and Sub Zero (pre 0AD) and so we have a very eclectic group of lists to share and discuss in this podcast: Hittites and Assyrians, Parthians and Abbasids, and Later Persians and Ptolemaic...2021-10-1657 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastISITYAA tackles The Problem With Paint (Summer - ahem - 2021 Bonus Episode #2)After much promise and very little delivery, another lazily rehashed cut-and-paste job recycles an old episode of I'm Sorry I Think You're An Arse and plops it out into the audio-ether for your delight and tangible disappointment.
This segment was originally published at the start of 2021, probably when we were all working under some sort of lockdown scenario, and addresses head-on the vexed issue of whether modern gaming and modelling paint ranges have just gone too goddam far, and instead puts forward the entirely reasonable proposition that we should all simply go back to the halcyon days...2021-10-0735 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastISITYAA tackles The Greying of the Hobby (Summer 2021 Bonus Episode #1)As threatened, The Madaxeman Podcast returns to punctuate your summer with a lazily cobbled together series of repeats of our barely tongue in cheek I'm Sorry I Think You're an Arse feature.
This 30 minute snippet of Madaxeman Podcast is an ideal way to brighten your already sunny day (between showers), and this time around features an ISITYAA from way back in March of this year in which Adam takes on the vexed subject of why anyone who comes out with the hoary old line of "The Hobby is Greying, And we need to do something about it!"...2021-08-061h 57The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 84 - With a Sharpened SpoonThis week the 84th episode of the Madaxeman Podcast marks a firebreak in the cavalcade of nonsense as we finally decide to take a bit of a break until the Autuumn Lockdown season hoves into view again - possibly in a couple of weeks at the current rate.
In this week's episode we push the boundaries of the wargaming/tropical arboriculture sub-genre to the max with an other extended session of In The Jungle with Tamsin, a smidgeon of painting gets done, the relative merits of the two key brands of non-local chip shops in the North...2021-07-192h 04The Madaxeman.com PodcastADLG v4 List Building - Lists from The 3T's Event in York, June 2021In this Madaxeman Army List Podcast the regular team run the rule over 5 lists all of which featured at the recent 3T's ADLG v4 event held in York in June 2021.
The lists covered are Thracian and Late Roman, together with the top 3 placed lists, Bosporan, Parthian and Nobades.
This podcast is also available in video format on the Madaxeman YouTube Channel, and a series of 5 battle reports featuring the Thracians is online on Madaxeman.com
All of the lists are also on the ADLG Wiki
2021-07-0658 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 82 - The Rhubarb TriangleThis week the painting hiatus starts to break for some of us as work and weather and actual opponents battle for supremacy on desktops and dice bags right across the country.
That means a bit of black dot madness creeps in, football strips as heraldry get debated, there is a lengthy diversion into how many bananas can you fit in a 2-foot square terrain tile, Dixons 15mm Marlburians get a quick review, Mirliton's 15mm Communist Italians are sprayed and glued together, and the logic of reviving Hard-Fi's career through small scale modelling is briefly considered and discarded...2021-06-241h 35The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 81 - Put it through a blender, with a dash of waterIn this week's swelteringly hot podcast the regular team of seven perspire their way through a zoom call in a brief interlude from actually playing games in the real world against real (fully vaccinated) people to bring you what may well be one of the most podcast-like podcasts we've ever actually done.
Part of the reason for that burst of unexpected normality is due to an unplanned but intriguing discussion about when and how we all outed ourselves as wargamers to our colleagues at work.
Following that, normal service is quickly resumed as we start t...2021-06-121h 42The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Aroma Will Fade Over TimeAfter a fortnight in which we received some disturbingly positive comments from many of wargamings Twitterati, the usual gang of 7 return with a tentative foray into the actual real world as lockdown eases sufficiently to allow CLWC to reopen again and all of us to attempt social engagement in a proper face to face environment.
In a limited palette of painting this week Tamsin goes totally herbal in the hillsides, Dave chunters on about the Franks for the 600th week in a row, Simon finally cracks and joins the Perry Medieval Plastic Tribe, Peter discovers that Red...2021-05-281h 12The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 79 - It's Here!In this week's epic episode we zoom in from the inky depths of Galaxy A41 to share with an already deeply v4-satiated world our initial incoherent thoughts on the list of changes for ADLGv4, adding almost nothing in the process to the tidal wave of excitement and analytical discussion already sweeping through social media like a somewhat garlic-infused tsunami of love and gratitude for El Kreator's latest issue.
There is also a little bit of chat about painting, a diversion into why buying 1/300th forests from Dunelm off the back of spurious text-based recommendations on Twitter fro...2021-05-142h 00The Madaxeman.com PodcastADLG List Building - The Taifa KingdomsThe first ever v4 Army List Podcast hits the airwaves with a paella-infused deep dive into one of the brand new lists from V4 of the recently released rulebook, the Taifa ("Scouse") Kingdoms.
These Arab-led, Christian-featuring armies of pre-reconquista Spain bring a whole load of new options to the ADLG tabletop, with both existing and brand new troop types to conjure with - and, of course, the classic Strategist El Cid.
We were lucky enough to be granted a pre-release view of this list, allowing us to record this podcast before we had our stickly li...2021-05-041h 09The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 77 - Waiting for the wee donkeyAfter deciding that 2 hours of Jo Davidson-eque repetition of "no comment" wouldn't really work as a podcast, the usual gang of seven get down to some serious business this week with a range of topics, scales and periods all covered.
Things kick off with a Victrix Hanomag House of Horror, segwaying neatly into Stug Life to keep the tiny WW2 theme alive. The exciting side of Swiss colours get discussed (erm.. red and white?) just before we venture into the murky undergrowth of "is that your Perry-provided flag or are you just not pleased to see me?".2021-04-301h 48The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 76 - Other Facial Hairstyles Are AvailableIn this weeks veritable post-lockdown-lite smorgasbord of conversation we are delighted to offer you a range of topics as diverse as a first look at undercoated Victrix 12mm German infantry, 28mm medieval transfers as a rival to Bitcoin, The Tale of the Heinkel Knights and that Whole Snow Nazi Thing, Khurasan stock levels, ADLG v4, 50cal Roman bolt shooters, decal choice for bazookas in cold and warm climates, the use of gold spray paint to don General Custer fancy dress, the best Vallejo paint to recreate yellow snow (including the taste), more Museum musings, the increasing importance of 2D...2021-04-161h 44The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 75 - Runners FunkIn this epic pre-bank-holiday episode the gang is reduced to just 6 as the triple-headed wargamer-unfriendly spectres of gainful employment, exercise and fresh air consumes one of our regular team members at least temporarily.
Even so we manage to ramble on close to the 2 hour mark with an episode that features yet more analysis of 6mm ACW hat bandings, octagonal basing for paratroopers, hoplite madness, ship construction, glue debates, and in which we again all ask ourselves "Museum's Z-range - are they just too detailed for mere mortals to paint?"
This week an enormous amount of ti...2021-04-021h 50The Madaxeman.com PodcastADLG List Building : The Meso-American SpecialIn this week's L'Art de la Guerre Army Building podcast I'm again joined by regulars Dave & Richard as we venture into the little-visited back of the book to take a gander at the Meso-American armies in an effort to see if we can pick some nuggets of golden Aztec goodness out of these rarely-seen army lists.
As usual we conjure up a variety of quite different lists, all of which manage to extract very different and intriguing play styles and approaches from what initially seemed the slim pickings of these later lists.
We also skip t...2021-03-281h 37The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 73 - Humbrol BeginningsThe 10th in the 2021 "UK Lockdown III" mini-series rolls into town with a rather lite painting week in which we are all rather distracted by the announcement of ADLG v4 coming out in the next few weeks.
Meanwhile the hussar-wing-glue debacle rolls on, an accidental company-level purchase of WW2 Artizan Designs paratroops somehow seems to happen without conscious human intervention, the Perry Twins make another £20 from us all with those black-undercoated medieval horsemen, Pitshanger Lane gets a double visitation, Dave's Magic Drawer of Left-Over Xyston Wonderment makes an initial bid for it's own theme tune and dedicated i...2021-03-261h 37The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 72 - 50 Shades of White (or Ivory)In this weeks cavalcade of conversation the team assemble and then kick off with an immediate foray into the best tools to use to bend the legs on cavalry riders together. A surprisingly lengthy chat about whether Ivory is a better colour for painting things white than actual white then diverts into the age-old question about deck white being better or worse than deck tan, rounding off with whether black-grey is a better black than, erm, black?
Atlatl pronunciation debates occupy us all briefly, as does the entire engineering and strategic developmental back story of the Japanese N...2021-03-182h 01The Madaxeman.com PodcastList Building for Byzantium & The Bulgars in ADLGThe latest in Madaxeman.com's regular L'Art de la Guerre Army List Building Podcast series focuses on another matched pair of historical foes - this time the Bulgars and the Byzantines.
The Bulgars were both enemies and allies of Byzantium in the near-ceaseless wars and feuds which swept across the Balkans in the period from roughly 600-1100AD. In this Army List Building Podcast we look at both the Bulgar and the Nikeforian Byzantine army lists, and myself, Dave and Richard put forward three very different approaches to constructing, deploying and then using each of these lists t...2021-03-161h 32The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 70 - The Oprah Winfrey of WarIn this week's 70th episode (and the 8th week of 2021's Lockdown) the team manages to hang on for almost two very solid hours indeed of chat, banter and lead-based quasi-entertainment without anyone storming off set at all (although to be fair we have no official weatherman on the team).
Making a fast start with an electrifying discussion on how best to wire an shock-giving glow-in-the-dark rat wheel we move seamlessly onto a segment about the fraught subject of mast erection glue strategies in which Warlord Games somewhat unusual Victory at Sea ship-basing conventions are critiqued and...2021-03-121h 51The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 69 - Honey Badger NonsenseThis week we hit the not-quite-70 mark with a whole slew of actual proper wargaming podcast-type content, including a discussion about how to cheat when painting tartan, Danish infantry coat colours, whether hobbits featured in the ACW, as well as a first look at the new O Group rules, a quick flirt with how to make money selling rats on eBay, what basing might look like in ADLG v4, the merits of waterslide vs LBMS transfers, and a chat about how big Victrix horses (and specifically their arses) actually are.
Normal service is resumed however when we...2021-03-051h 57The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 68 - Is that your Ion powered fully-stabilized Vortex Mixer ?In this week's episode the full team contemplate the possibility of having to actually meet each other again in the real world as the route out of lockdown is revealed to a skeptical British public. All of the regular features return (or more precisely "both") with Dave this week taking the lead on ISITYAA with his unhinged rant about just how much mispronunciation is wrecking his wargaming life.
We also visit the drive-through and order a skeleton-bone mocha from Starbucks, the American Civil War Painting Catastrophe Waitress flirts with us all, we risk everything by entering into...2021-02-261h 35The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 67 - Camels, Slippers and Comedy GlueA dichotomy of a week this time as the by-now standard issue 7-pack of contributors accidentally engage in what in retrospect feels suspiciously like a sensible, nuanced and (sort of) well informed discussion about the merits and drawbacks of properly proportioned wargames figures, most notably 28mm Perry plastics and Mirliton 15mm metals during their reviews of the last weeks paint-table antics.
That high point is quickly left behind though, with a delve into the prevalence of camels in early medieval England, considerations as to whether glue that doesn't stick is worth buying, a treatise on the economics o...2021-02-191h 55The Madaxeman.com PodcastList Building for The Crusades : Later Crusader & Ayyubid in ADLGThis weeks L'Art de la Guerre List Building Podcast is another episode in our "unloved matched pairs" sequence, featuring the Later Crusaders of Richard the Lionheart, and the Ayyubid army of his erstwhile opponent Saladin.
These two very different lists bring some astoundingly chalk and cheese-like capabillities to the tabletop. The headlong aggression of the Crusading knights in the Later Crusader list is tempered by the solidity of their stoic spear and crossbow-armed infantry, while the forces of Saladin can easily make full use of the entire width (and depth) of the playing surface with clouds of...2021-02-161h 42The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 65 - Collars & CuffsNot one, but two whole brand new features slide onto the wet pallette of natter this week as the team extend their normal discursive discussion of painting and online shopping in a pair of new directions.
Padding out the timeline more than most features is a sometimes insightful but often meandering chat in which we all discuss how the concept of morale has evolved during our wargaming lifetimes from it's literal beginnings to its mostly abstracted present expression.
A whole new theme tune also hits the airwaves and heralds the debut of "I'm Sorry I...2021-02-121h 39The Madaxeman.com PodcastList Building for the armies of Britannia in ADLGThe Ancients Britons together with the Caledonians, Scots, Irish and Picts are armies that many wargamers will keep a special place for close to their hearts, but also which they will keep an equally special place for securely tucked away in the storage drawer as a result of their often underwhelming reputation on the tabletop.
In this Army List Building Podcast the regular team try and pick the juicy bits out of these two L'Art de la Guerre army lists 98 & 99, and in the process manage to come up with surprisingly varied set of approaches to help make...2021-02-091h 00The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 63 - Go 240 volts, or go home.With all seven particiants now itching to "jab and go" (or, possibly just "itching"), the third Lockdown sees the Lockdown Podcast series lumber into Episode 63 territory as the complete suite of contributors yet again step up to the painting microphones.
This week's range of eclectic topics cover the full gamut of land, sea and air (but without air) as we discuss whether anyone has actually played Cruel Seas more than once, decide if Victrix' Shermans might not actually be "too good", take great care when Googling for "flocking videos", plug ourselves firmly into the debate as to...2021-02-051h 36The Madaxeman.com PodcastList Building for 100YW French & EnglishA classic "matched pair" of armies in this week's L'Art de la Guerre List Building Podcast from Madaxeman.com as I'm joined by regular guests Richard & Dave to run the rule over these two famous medieval behemoths.
Will it be massed longbowmen who come out on top, or will the flower of French Chivalry (and Joan d'Arc) catch the list-makers eye as we delve deep into how to make these armies into not only Crecy-winners but proper world-beaters as well.
There are 7 different lists going under the microsocope this week, all of which as usual c...2021-02-031h 40The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 61 - So you think you're Brad Pitt?In this weeks snow-tinged smorgasbord of wargaming and painting chitchat the team wrap up warm in their eskimo boots to cover topics as diverse as painting horses, working out the best rules mechanics for simulating uncontested airport construction on Indian Ocean Islands, toss out a rare wargaming-related namecheck for Canadian songstress Shania Twain, take in some single file wargaming with Osprey's latest title "Deep Jungle B-Road Warfare 1939-45", stage a vaguely useful segment on painting WW2 German tank cammo in 10mm scale, look far too deeply into Zvezda Zwiehander flag painting and how best to combine it with undercoating...2021-01-291h 44The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 60 - Goes Well with YorkshiresWith UK Lockdown III in full effect, and seemingly due to continue well into March (at best), the Lockdown Podcast team are reassembled in a sequel that no-one was clamouring for.
Fear not however - in the 6 weeks since December 11th (when the last Lockdown Pod was published) the intrepid 7 have gained absolutely nothing in terms of insight, polish, erudition or knowledge worth sharing, and so this landmark 60th episode of the Madaxeman Podcast carries on pretty much exactly where the last one left off.
In this week's new year smorgasbord of wargaming irrelevance we...2021-01-221h 44The Madaxeman.com PodcastList Building for Justinian Byzantines in ADLGThe first Byzantine (or perhaps the last "Roman") list in ADLG's roster of armies is one which covers some of the Empires greatest victories, and which spans the career of one of their greatest generals, Belisarius.
But despite that historic success the Justinians are often overlooked, especially when set against other, later Byzantine lists which can be stuffed with many more interesting wargamer-friendly exotic troop types! This video podcast seeks to redress that balance a little, digging into what on the surface can look like the slim pickings of choice in the Justinian list.
As us...2021-01-161h 00The Madaxeman.com PodcastList Building for Camillan & Republican Romans in ADLGFeaturing highly on anyone's "first army to collect" shopping list, the Camillan and Republican Roman armies always seem to flatter to deceive.
The legendary Legions provide a powerful core to the army, but the relative paucity of support troops and the seemingly unavoidable need to go infantry-first in any design can make these challenging lists to construct and play with succesfully.
This ADLG listbuilding podcast helps you face that challenge head-on as I'm joined again by Dave Saunders & Richard Case to look at 3 different ways of constructing, deploying and playing each of these two lists...2021-01-121h 25The Madaxeman.com PodcastList Building for Hoplite Armies in ADLGDespite being very much the textbook Classical era warrior, Hoplites often suffer from being the baseline 'man with sharp stick' troop-type who's battlefield capabilities underpin a vast array of far more interestingly-armed and equipped infantrymen in the troop-type taxonomy of ADLG, and indeed in many other previous rulesets as well.
This ADLG Listbuilding Podcast seeks to pan for gold amongst the broken pottery shards of Greek military history, and in so doing possibly tease out a few different ways of cooking up interesting and viable Hoplite-led army lists to use when playing ADLG in the Classical era.2021-01-061h 33The Madaxeman.com PodcastList Building for Classical Indians in ADLGPulling together a Classical Indian army list for L'Art de la Guerre is often seen as a rather formulaic exercise, with a widely held view that there is only one real way of cobbling together, deploying and using the army.
This Madaxeman List Building Podcast, with regular contributors Dave & Richard, looks into whether it is possible to blow that set of cliches wide open, helping you pull together a number of different, interesting Indian lists, and discussing how to use them to play proactively on the tabletop under ADLG rules.
The team also discuss a...2020-12-2940 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 55 - When the lights all go out in HarrowHaving snuck in a bonus army-themed podcast last week our half-hearted festivities are now brought to you as Episode 55. in possibly the least festive "Wargaming Christmas Special" ever committed to a digital recording medium.
This week the intrepid band of coughing witterers open a suitably disappointing set of conversational presents from under the podcast tree. The surprise packages include The (literal) Army of Cheese, whether running machines with ashtrays were ever a thing (outside of that one episode of Minder), if faking malingering illness could become the next competition circuit, just how dangerous is electrostatic wet grass...2020-12-111h 56The Madaxeman.com PodcastList Building for Seleucids in ADLGIn this special one-off Podcast episode I'm joined by Dave Saunders and Richard Case to chew over one of the classic Successor armies - the Seleucids.
In the pod we chat a bit about the history of the Seleucid dynasty, why they seemed to end up with quite such a good collection of toys in their armies, and then consider as many as 8 different options for putting the list together.
Unfortunately we did have some recording issues with this one, so the sound is a bit spotty in places and it also ends a bit...2020-12-0656 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 53 - The Price is Right, Come On Down!As the festive vaccination season looms large in the minds of wargamers around the world, the podcast team are back with all of the usual painting, gaming and Gallic techno-driven military themed obscure general knowledge to fill your early December weekends and evenings as well as another honest to goodness actual discussion about a topic which seems to be on everyone's Christmas list, why are wargamers more obsessed with the price of a figure than the quality?
There's also a quick diversion into airbrushing, a cough-assessment section (no, not like that..), a fairly comprehensive listing of those w...2020-12-041h 53The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 52 - Basing InstinctWith the UK gripped in a weird interim world of pseudo-lockdown the entire team reconvene again this week to chat through the usual mix of painting and gaming, before running riot with a freewheeling exploration of the different basing techniques they all deploy to try and make their figures look better than they really are from "wargaming distances".*
As well as enticing talk of flocking and slathering on gritty emulsions there is a potentially dangerous liason with the entire concept of Assyrian Relief, a rare and unusual mention for Nigella Lawson, further consideration as to whether size...2020-11-271h 59The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 51 - I Like Big Battles (And I Cannot Lie)In this week's podcast the full team trot out again onto the pitch for a wholesome kickabout that starts with a rapid application of nail varnish, moves seamlessly onto (in possibly the closest we've ever come to a proper review) the merits of small plastic tanks, floats a long ball out to the right wing under somewhere between 2 and 3 bars of pressure, crosses it back into the middle to yell "Margaret!" in a note-perfect tabletop recreation of the Pirate Memory Game, nod it into the 6 yard box with a bit of ADLG:R and ends up slamming it into...2020-11-202h 04The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 50 - The One for CliveWith the half-century now achieved the regular team opt to celebrate this milestone by completely forgetting to plan anything different at all to the usual chat about what they have painted, what they might be thinking of painting, and dad-dancing along on Zoom to Andy's quiz music.
This week the topics covered include a far deeper delve into the world of miniature trowels than many independent observers thought possible, contemporary fashion trends in Wurttemburger collars and cuffs, the use of biological agents as strippers, how discounts at Victrix can cost more than they save, whether 8 units of...2020-11-131h 38The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 49 - Late Imperial Love EggsWith a proper Lockdown sweeping the UK, the Madaxeman team return after a 2-week boiler-related hiatus with a typically rambling episode combining painting chat, Andy's Quiz and a barely in-depth look at the history behind the Late Imperial Roman army, and which are the best manufacturers to choose when cooking one up on the tabletop.
In between these vitally important topics we also cover the ethics of using an elephant brush on a horses' ass, how to wargame the long-awaited Schwarzenegger-Dredd crossover movie, how Dave blagged his way into UCL by claiming to speak fluent Barkerese, we h...2020-11-061h 46The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 48 - Getting Haberdashery with it.Inbetween the all important haberdashery and specialist scissor purchasing news this week the full team manage to sneak in another unstructured ramble to try and answer your key questions of the day, including whether Not the Nine O'clock News comedy sketches are still relevant, the ins and outs of International Fighting online, how Tier 3 Socially Distanced Competitions work in an age of free tea, why everyone is going to be going Aechemenid-mad in the new year, do Monster Munch baps count as a full meal, will we all be getting Osprey's latest "Polish Beret vs German Feldcappen" release, and...2020-10-231h 30The Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 47 - The Lockdown Crew are back in PodtownOK, perhaps that's a smidge overdramatic, but with the shutters coming down on social gaming across the UK right now it seems like the right time to toss another podcast into the ether for your indoor painting-accompaniment over the coming week.
This episode sees all 7 regular contributors Zooming in, with an increasingly un-rare unplanned guest appearance from Mrs Andy yet again stealing the show early doors. As well as a gallop through everyone's painting achievements, we attempt to dip a disconcertingly long toe into the garlic-infused pond-water that makes up the Bataille Empire ruleset, and of course...2020-10-161h 29The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 20This 20th, epic (aka "extra long") episode marks the final chapter in the first series of Weekly Lockdown Podcasts, with the full crew eventually assembling to take a standardly discursive tour around the usual array of wargaming topics - but with a twist!
The regular "What did you paint last week" morphs seamlessly into "You've painted how much in the last 20 weeks !!??" , Teaching Timmy About Napoleonics goes all Abba and hits the giddy heights of the most coveted piece of terrain in wargames history (the Airfix Waterloo Farmhouse), our session on actual gaming includes some, erm, actual f...2020-08-072h 21The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 1919 weeks in and things are getting even more weird in the virtual Madaxeman Lockdown studio, as the regular team of 7 expands with a couple of pithy, succinct and historically accurate contributions from Mrs Andy in this weeks rambling episode.
Mixed in amongst the usual melange of gaming- and painting-themed content the happy podcastonaughts today ponder whether it is fair to say that nude badgers are indeed living the dream, whether any 8th century axe-makers would have considered advertising through shirt sponsorship, if glueing a vibrating love egg into the two halves of a 28mm plastic ho...2020-07-311h 53The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 18As Lockdown gently unwinds across the UK, the full team are assembled again for a seven-hander episode that reaches the parts other gaming podcast cannot reach, gives them a good old scratch and then eats whatever is under it's fingernails for good measure.
In this week's episode consideration is given to how to choose the best filling for an LBMS transfer sandwich, we ask the vital question "wet palettes - vital painting tools, or just margerine tubs with pretentions?", the contentious subject of whether face to face gaming will ever really replace online play is f...2020-07-242h 12The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 17With the UK lockdown gently easing the team are still a 6-pack this week (although more in the "beer" than the "washboard stomach" idiom) as they canter through the full set of features and distractions in another 2-hour session to accompany your wargaming painting.
This week the thorny subject of Reverse Vodka Brexit rears it's ugly head, Vallejo Urban Graffiti'ed Concrete paint gets evaluated in comparison to their very handy Vallejo Tartan dropper bottle, the discussion on jam or clotted cream is revisited in proper military style, whether it's ever fair to let your kids play with y...2020-07-181h 57The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 16In a week that is very lite on, erm, me (due to holiday) the Gang of 6 attempt to make a break for freedom and stage a guerilla podcast all on their own.
Led heroically by G'Day Simon the truncated team try to cover topics as varied as making tea with toothbrushes, if charm bracelet charms have a role in wargaming, how to tell which beach is which when it comes to 1970's episodes of Dr Who, what a Scotsman would wear under his badger onsie, just how close a miss is a cannonball between the legs, whether...2020-07-141h 54The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 15Now deep into it's troubled teenage phase, the Madaxeman Lockdown Podcast series continues to boldly go where few if any wargaming-themed podcasts have dared to go before.
This week the foolhardy seven consider whether a Napoleonic LoTR crossover movie could stage its apocalyptic final battle scene in Bramall Lane stadium, how toothbrushes helped the British Army of the Rhine ward off a Warpac invasion in the 1980's, the current statistics for underpants-wearing in Harrow, fashion trends in Janissary headgear, how best to recover frosted figures, whether Adele would have re-written her global smash single "Chasing Pavements" if sh...2020-07-031h 59The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 1499 days into the UK Lockdown and the tsunami of mixed-quality painting continues to roll on and on across seven different desks spread far and wide across the Southern half of England, and yet again this is your chance to share that experience in full stereophonic audio quality.
In this week's episode there is a vague attempt made to answer the questions posed in this exact same block of text last week but which last week's podcast failed to even mention, the many questions that the subject of badgers always throws up are debated in probably the most t...2020-06-262h 12The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 13Unlucky for some (listeners...) perhaps, but the 13th edition of the Madaxeman Lockdown Podcast series comes out early again in an attempt to avoid an unfortunate coincidence of "Friday" and the number 13, which we all feared may risk causing untold numbers of superglue-related accidents up and down the land.
In a packed programme tonight Matthew, all seven contributors seek to contribute something of value in a tightly-edited episode which drills deep into subjects as diverse as solutions for saggy Egyptian chariot axles, what length of bungee cord is best to attach a duvet to the side of an...2020-06-171h 50The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 12It's one short of a bakers dozen for the Lockdown Podcast series with an early release this week that allows you to take full advantage of the rain sweeping across the country (applies in UK only) and get down to some serious painting.
This week the team of 7 struggle valiantly to try and make the subject of WW2 Pacific Theatre Naval Battles staged entirely during the hours of darkness in 1942 sound unfeasibly interesting, wait expectantly for the drilling to start, vandalize MDF light industrial buildings for entertainment, get confused between Hannibal and Napoleon, consider whether the Austro-Hungarian...2020-06-112h 06The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 11In another surprisingly lengthy podcast the full team celebrate being back together with conversation that covers all bases, as well as a few associated basing materials.
Topics addressed in almost painstaking detail include whether ink is just watered down paint with a better PR, if starting a new period by painting the terrain before the figures is a crime against nature, whether if ArmyPainter is good enough for goblins does that mean it's also good enough for the legions of Rome, how long can anyone talk about an army who's uniforms are all white, definitive proof that Ed...2020-06-052h 01The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 10With a frightening lurch into double figures (or a proper round dozen if paintbrushes and glue are your thing) the Lockdown team from Madaxeman.com are back yet again with the weekly soundtrack to a weekend of painting and avoiding household chores.
Hot topics for tepid discussion this week include whether the best yellow paint is in fact Plague Brown, the Tau of Fire Hydrant Numerology, whether there was an aftermarket for refitting Egyptian chariots with go faster stripes and pumping stereos, how posh would a Samurai leader need to be in order to qualify for a...2020-05-291h 45The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 9As the landmark of a double-figure number of Lockdown Podcast Episodes rapidly approaches, and with almost 1,400 Podcast downloads in the last month under our belts the team of intrepid wannabe gamers and by-now-obsessive painters luxuriate yet again in the riches of a combined painting queue that stretches all the way from the pyramids of Ancient Egypt to the tower stacks of Mega City One.
In the fleeting moments of the podcast that take place before we reach Andy's Quiz Music a wide variety of debates take place - the best board games for feuding siblings, using the...2020-05-221h 47The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 8This week a special guest joins us from the socially isolated South Coast town of Bournemouth in the shape of Adam to bring the number of contributors up to an almost unmaneagable 7 for the first time ever.
Even with someone who used to do a sensible job as a schoolteacher added to the mix, the wargaming-related conversation still manages to ramble across the mental tabletop in a somewhat erratic fashion, covering important yet strangely rarely discussed topics such as what colour should rigging be on a 1/240th scale 19th Century Ironclad, do Gnomes still have a place i...2020-05-151h 56The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Glue Special, a bonus Podcast from Madaxeman.comAnother special one-off bonus episode addressing the sticky subject of wargaming glues (see what I did there?). In this podcast a team of 7 reasonably unqualified gamers attempt to stretch out what on the surface looks to be a fairly flimsy topic to over half an hour of what turns out to be sometimes useful* chat and banter.
Consideration is given to the three main types of glue - sticking-shields-on-type-glue, basing glue and plastic modelling glue.
Even more astonishingly there is some bonus out-take glue-chat at the end - so make sure to listen all the wa...2020-05-1435 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastNew Kingdom Egyptian List Building with Richard CaseAnother podcast in an occasional series focusing on list-building options for some of the more popular L'Art de la Guerre army lists, this 'pod features contributions from special guest Richard Case.
With almost 300 games played with the NKE in all competitions, this famous army from history racks up a fairly weak success rate of just over 42% (as of May 2020), placing the NKE deep in the lower quartile of competition-effectiveness rankings despite it being one of the 50 most popular armies in use.
In this podcast we discuss the roles and combinations which can help you turn...2020-05-1247 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Painbrush Special, a bonus Podcast from Madaxeman.comIn this special one-off bonus episode released in time for VE Day weekend the regular 6-person crew take a deep and typically discursive dive into the complex world of paintbrush procurement and maintainance, and surprisingly discover that at least some of them* even have valid, educated and informed opinions that are actually worth sharing.
More importantly they all attempt to come to some sort of conclusion to the two key questions of "how much should I spend on a brush, and how many should I own?"
Brush brands discussed and reviewed include :
Kolinksy Raphael
Wi...2020-05-0727 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 7It's another week, and another round of painting-heavy chatter from the podcast team.
This week the topics covered range from a discussion as to whether canned air smells of anything, whether Swiss cheese-hurling Gnomes would have Norman-style nasal guards on their gnome-hats (for combat purposes only), if a cat with a Katana is a credible substitute for a Japanese monk on a tortoise, how airbrushes actually work, horse colours across the known world in the ancient and medieval period, whether Croeseus could have kept the Persian Empire at bay if only he'd known how to cobble together...2020-05-051h 26The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 6This week the regular crew mark a double-triple podcast milestone (or, more prosaically, this is the 6th Lockdown Podcast) in their ongoing rambling discussion.
Subjects covered this week in the paint-chat include Chinese Chariotry Umbrellas, whether a reasonably close encounter with a tin of white spray paint counts as "fully painted" when it comes to Austrian Napoleonic infantry, Gnomepoleon's leadership qualities, would Steve McQueen have cleared that fence on a Harley rather than a Triumph, how long the 7 Years War ran for, if double-depth basing has led to the end of monopose units, digital photography techniques for t...2020-05-011h 30The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 5With another week of enforced isolation behind them the intrepid band of wargamers astonishingly still appear to have something new to talk about (although Andy is still painting Vikings...). The usual melange of painting, basing and figure selection chatter is augmented this week by ruminations on the efficacy of the postal service, whether soap is a good idea for things other than combating virus transmission, whether German WW2 Paratroopers actively chose not to use multi-barelled rocket launchers because of the challenges of pronunciation, and just how far can a Chinese army be morphed before it becomes socially unacceptable to...2020-04-231h 22The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 4The Lockdown Specials - Part 4
Another week, another load of old rubbish as the regulars chat on about their glacial rate of painting, wheel out another obscure quiz and this time attempt also to demostrate just how hard unscripted radio comedy can be in a tribute to non-wargaming legend and all round Goodie Tim Brooke-Taylor.
The usual 6-strong banter machine gets into gear to discuss this weeks painting haul, and then digresses gently towards topics as unusual as those bloody vikings (again), assembling various scales of ancient britons, how 20mm soft plastic manufacturers stack up...2020-04-171h 05The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 3In that "3rd difficult week" for many podcasts, when good intentions come smashing up against the hard reality of running out of things to actually say, the Madaxeman.com Lockdown Special crew amazingly dodge that particular subject-matter bullet by yet again chuntering on about literally nothing in particular, and also by throwing in a new guest paticipant in the shape of fellow CLWC club-member Tamsin from the http://wargaminggirl.blogspot.com/ Wargaming Girl blog.
As well as the usual chunter, dross and fluff this week there is even more coverage of buying and painting Vikings, whether it's acce...2020-04-091h 04The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 2This week 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, what might be the crappest thing on eBay right now and in a brand new feature, Andy Finkel-kel-kel-kel's brand new Weekly Quiz (with it's own theme tune)!
Sit back, dip your paint...2020-04-0351 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Lockdown Specials - Part 1"It's basically a Poundshop Top Gear, but with more dice and less casual racism" (The Daily Mail)
With much of the gaming world in lockdown it's become impossible to go to the pub and talk rubbish about wargaming - so why not listen to 5 random blokes talking rubbish about wargaming for an hour or so while you're doing painting?
"Convinced me my wife was right and I did actually need to go and re-grout the shower" (Angus Deayton)
In this first of many (probably) Lockdown Special Podcasts the team wrestle with audio quality acros...2020-03-2850 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastA Weekend in Provence - ADLG in Avignon 2019No ADLG events since the 1/72nd scale whupping for my Vikings at The BIG Abona Festival back in June... by November I was starting to go stir-crazy (and not in a painting sort of way!).
Browsing the UK calendar had failed to cough up any events which coincided with a free weekend, but on the French part of the ADLG forum I spotted one event on a very specific weekend in November, and a last-minute plan suddenly fell into place... Avignon!
Air Miles subsidized the international logistics, Avis loyalty points chipped in with a gallic...2020-01-0124 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastYuan Chinese - The Worlds best 2-list ADLG list?Three of the last four World Championships have now been won by Yuan Chinese armies, admittedly in the hands of three different players, and using different list designs each time as well. But, even so that's a stunning record - so what does this list have to make it so great? The Madaxeman.com Podcast fearlessly takes on this knotty issue with the help of special guests Peter & "Aussie" Simon to chew over the strengths and tactics needed to make this list really fly.
The latest winning list is from the 2019 Worlds, and is featured here. You can...2019-06-2540 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastUSTT 2019 - The Venetians with Special Guest Tucker SaglioThe USTT L'Art de la Guerre event is one of the bigger North American tournaments which in January 2019 attracted 40 players in teams of 4... including Henry "Tucker" Saglio who was kind enough to agree to be interviewed about his 5 games on the Madaxeman.com Podcast.
The interview was conducted over Skype, so there are moments where the audio is a bit patchy, but hey, it's not like you've signed up to this on Patreon or anything now is it?
His own write ups of his games also appear on the ADLG forum , and the lists he pl...2019-02-091h 18The Madaxeman.com Podcast6X the entertainment - African Vandals vs Arab ConquestThe Attack! competition and show down in sunny Devizes is a regular feature on the 28mm L'Art de la Guerre circuit, and this podcast accompanies the match report published on Madaxeman.com providing commentary of the game.
Or, more accurately it's the audio track from the Youtube Video where I talk through the battle from the standpoint of the Vandals - so you probably need to be reading the website report to make sense of it.
Anyway, it's been ages since I've published a podcast, so here you go...
2018-09-1524 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastPart #4 of Madaxeman.com at the 2018 Burton DoublesIt's the last round of the Burton Doubles and yet again Adam joins me for a post-game analysis of how we played out the last round battle of L'Art de la Guerre featuring a Samurai vs Tamil Indians.
Designed to accomany the Burton Doubles Madaxeman.com Match Report on Madaxeman.com, this podcast looks at how Samurai stand up to Elephants, discussed a really odd hipster beer and was recorded whilst we were digesting a "Curry in a Box" meal deal from Asda.
The podcast is the final one of four, covering all four rounds of...2018-03-1820 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastPart #3 of Madaxeman.com at the 2018 Burton DoublesOur regular studio guest Adam is here for the third round of the Burton Doubles, with a chat about a single game of L'Art de la Guerre featuring a Samurai vs Feudal English.
Designed to accomany the Burton Doubles Madaxeman.com Match Report on Madaxeman.com, this deeply insightful and analytical reviw of the performance of the Samurai army also contains reviews of niche market hipster beers and a deep dive into the merits of the £5 "Curry in a Box" meal deal from Asda.
The podcast is the third of four, covering all four rounds of t...2018-03-1828 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastPart #2 of Madaxeman.com at the 2018 Burton DoublesOur regular studio guest Adam joins us yet again as we dive deep into the thinking behind a single game of L'Art de la Guerre featuring a Samurai vs Feudal Irish.
Designed to accomany the Burton Doubles Madaxeman.com Match Report on Madaxeman.com, this deeply insightful and analytical reviw of the performance of the Samurai army also contains reviews of niche market hipster beers and a chat about the Onion Bhaji's in the "Curry in a Box" meal deal from Asda.
The podcast is the second of four, covering all four rounds of the 2018 Bur...2018-03-1826 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastPart #1 of Madaxeman.com at the 2018 Burton DoublesOur regular studio guest Adam joins us for the first time in ages as we dive deep into the thinking behind a single game of L'Art de la Guerre featuring a Samurai Civil War.
Designed to accomany the Burton Doubles Madaxeman.com Match Report on Madaxeman.com, this deeply insightful and analytical reviw of the performance of the Samurai army also contains reviews of niche market hipster beers and an anticipation of an "Curry in a Box" from Asda.
The podcast is the first of four, covering all four rounds of the 2018 Burton Doubles competition, an...2018-03-1824 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastDerby, Not Derby - the journey homeIn this episode featuring regular guests Dave Dave and Aussie Simon, the Central London A-Team are travelling home by car whilst discussing the merits of the new "Derby not Derby" venue, undertaking a highly detailed pint-by-pint review of the pubs and restaurants of Market Harborough, and get into some actual wargaming-related discussions about army list composition for L'Art de la Guerre and the upcoming UK competition schedule.
2017-10-2027 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastGhaznavids with EthanIn this episode the near-legendary East Coast gamer Ethan Zorick discussed how he puts together an effective Ghaznavid list for L'Art de la Guerre. We discuss a wide variety of topcs from the role of command values, whether there is anything in the game an Elite General-mounted Death Star should fear, and whether Essex Miniatures really stand up to the test of time. Listen in for ADLG hints, tips and general intellectual-sounding banter as we discuss ... The Ghaznavids!
The list we discuss in this podcast is as follows:
Strategist
1 Turkish ghulams Heavy cavalry bow E...2017-07-1431 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastSassanid Persian List Building in L'Art de la GuerreA surprisingly informative and educational podcast this week, in which I interview Richard Case, current UK #1 player and winner of the BHGS Challenge 2017 about how he designed and concieved the Sassanid Persian army list he used to win the Challenge with.
This podcast accompanies the match reports on Madaxeman.com of the competition, in which I also use a Sassanid list, but with less success...
(Recorded via Skype, so good sound quality throughout as well.)
A video version of this podcast exists on Youtube
2017-07-0428 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastThe Road Back from CampaignIn this episode I'm joined by Dave Dave and Aussie Simon as we talk about ADLG lists past and present, as well as some genereal rambling about FoGR and the surprising popularity of terrain mats among wargamers right now, especially as we are normally such a tight-fisted bunch of old gits.
This episode was recorded quite literally on the road, using an iPhone 5 microphone - the audio is still pretty decent though, so don't be afraid!
2017-05-1426 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastElephants & Tapas - Madaxeman.com live from the (tapas bar) table-top in SpainIn this episode the usual gang of inexpert commentators, me, Aussie Simon, Dave "The Cheese-Winner" Saunders and Peter "Midnight Streaker" Webb consume vino tinto, eat surprisingly spicy tapas and try and get to the bottom of the conundrum of how and why Elephants can sometimes appear to be wonder weapons in L'Art de la Guerre. There is probably a load of other stuff there too about how the event went, how to design an army, and whether national play styles really ar "a thing" - but you'll have to listen to find out!
2016-12-0541 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastDear Catastrophe Tapas WaitressIn this episode, recorded in the town square of Estella on a sunny Sunday afternoon, the Central London International Travelling ADLG Circus discuss the latest ADLG expedition - the games, the dice, the food, the drink and the sleepwalking nudity as well. As we now say in the world of Spanish ADLG, "What's it to you?" 2016-11-0124 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastLara Croft's Ring - The We're On Our Way To Derby Episode..in which me and Aussie Simon ("G'Day") witter on about why some rulesets have more longevity than others, why updates sometimes so and sometimes don't refresh a rules community, which armies we plan to lose with this weekend in the FoGR competition, and whether the M1 or M40 is the best way out of London at 6pm on Friday night.
(The Derby Ring Road has a road called Lara Croft Way, in case you were wondering...) 2016-10-0423 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastPost Industrial Decay & Fruit-based drinks - ADLG at The Worlds in CharleroiIn this episode, recorded at the Le Shuttle terminal in Calais on the way back from The Worlds in Charleroi, Belgium, Dave & Tim discuss the hitherto unknown skills involved in ADLG list building, how post-industrial decay can, if carefully managed, become a tourist attraction, and whether fruit-based drinks are morally acceptable in modern society.
Listen and learn how the 5-strong Central London team managed just 8 wins in 30 games whilst playing L'Art de la Guerre in a pizza oven next to one of Europe's leading budget airline hubs. 2016-08-2940 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastEpisode 7 - after the BHGS ChallengeAnother post-event podcast with special guests "Aussie" Simon, "Wins everything tries" Pete, and Dave "Call me Dave" Dave as we head our way back from the 2016 BHGS Challenge.
In this fascinating episode recorded whilst the memory of the weekend was far more fresh than our rather sweaty post-gaming clothing, we discuss the games we played during the weekend, briefly mention the curry we ate (at Cinnamon in Wheatley, Oxon) and then chunter on about L'Art de la Guerre a bit more.
2016-06-2324 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastAfter the Campaign is done...In this episode 2/3 of Team Central London Mediocre and 1/3 of Central London Even More Mediocre are driving home from Campaign in Milton Keynes, when we get to talk about the joys of 28mm plastic soldiers, playing the English Civil War in a theme where 4 (erm, surely just two?) armies are allowed, and generally whether bigger is in fact always better when it comes to boys toys.
This 30 minute chunter down the M1 also features Aussie Simon ("G'day") and, for the first time, Coughing Dave.
2016-05-0823 minThe Madaxeman.com Podcast"What's in the Bag?" The Salute 2016 Podcast!In this episode I'm joined by Ian, Gavin, Jeavon, John and Stan all from Central London Wargames Club in a "straight to live" recording made in the beer garden of the Fox pub at the ExCeL Centre, London.
Admittedly this is not the most salubrious of locations, however Audacity software has managed to iron out most of the background noise making this a pretty solid podcast recorded live in the Fox, which this particular weekend has been the resting place for weary and thirsty gamers escaping from the mega-show that was Salute! 2016.
In this episode I ask the q...2016-04-2223 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastCurry & Dice with Adam & Tim - Game 4A Madaxeman.com Podcast with commentary from Adam & Tim on the 2016 Burton Doubles L'Art de la Guerre event.
This time its a Roman vs Parthian battle.
The podcast accompanies the match reports on www.madaxeman.com where you can see the pictures that Adam & Tim are describing.2016-03-2621 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastCurry & Dice with Adam & Tim - Roman Civil War!Game 3 at Burton, and a Roman Civil War for Adam & Tim at the 2016 Burton Doubles L'Art de la Guerre event. The podcast accompanies the match reports on www.madaxeman.com where you can see the pictures that Adam & Tim are describing.2016-03-2521 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastCurry & Dice with Adam & Tim - Game 2
Another Madaxeman.com Podcast with commentary from Adam & Tim on the 2016 Burton Doubles L'Art de la Guerre event. This time a Romans vs 3K Chinese!
The podcast accompanies the match reports on www.madaxeman.com where you can see the pictures that Adam & Tim are describing.2016-03-2523 minThe Madaxeman.com PodcastCurry & Dice with Adam & Tim: The Madaxeman.com PodcastThe first ever Madaxeman.com Podcast with commentary from Adam & Tim on the 2016 Burton Doubles L'Art de la Guerre event. The podcast accompanies the match reports on www.madaxeman.com where you can see the pictures that Adam & Tim are describing.2016-03-2526 min