With 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 crea...
Jul 18, 2020•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 43
In 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,...
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 42
Now 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 Jani...
Jul 03, 2020•1 hr 59 min•Season 1Ep. 41
99 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 b...
Jun 26, 2020•2 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Unlucky 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 s...
Jun 17, 2020•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 39
It'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 industria...
Jun 11, 2020•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 38
In 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 ca...
Jun 05, 2020•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 37
With 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, ...
May 29, 2020•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 36
As 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...
May 22, 2020•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 35
This 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...
May 15, 2020•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 34
Another 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 o...
May 14, 2020•35 min•Ep. 33
Another 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 u...
May 12, 2020•47 min•Ep. 32
In 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 ...
May 07, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 31
It'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 C...
May 05, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Season 1Ep. 30
This 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, ...
May 01, 2020•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 29
With 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 laun...
Apr 23, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 28
The 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), ...
Apr 17, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 25
In 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...
Apr 09, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 24
This 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 ...
Apr 03, 2020•51 min•Ep. 23
"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 tea...
Mar 28, 2020•50 min•Ep. 22
No 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 lo...
Jan 01, 2020•25 min•Ep. 21
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...
Jun 25, 2019•41 min•Ep. 20
The 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 ...
Feb 09, 2019•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 19
The 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...
Sep 15, 2018•24 min•Ep. 18
It'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, cove...
Mar 18, 2018•21 min•Ep. 17
Our 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 o...
Mar 18, 2018•29 min•Ep. 16
Our 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, co...
Mar 18, 2018•27 min•Ep. 15
Our 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 ...
Mar 18, 2018•25 min•Ep. 14
In 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.
Oct 20, 2017•28 min•Ep. 13
In 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 th...
Jul 14, 2017•31 min•Ep. 12
