The Madaxeman.com Podcast

In this second part of the Madaxeman.com equivalent to "The World At War", the action picks up just after Sean Bean leaves the stage and we dive straight into the irrelevant, unimportant Central European phase of the Napoleonic Wars, before (at last) heading for Moscow (which apparently is pretty close to France if you walk quite quickly). Everything from then on in is basically heading full tilt for a crescendo of Abba-esque proportions at the Airfix Waterloo Farmhouse, where this epic tale reaches it's conclusion.  We hope you will enjoy this bonus double episode of recycled Madaxeman Lockdown Content about one of the greatest (but still quite short) chaps in history, and his exploits on the field (and sea) of battle.   

Many, many years ago during the 2020 Lockdowns, the Madaxeman Podcast crew delivered a rather ramshackle set of "features" on the knotty subject of The Napoleonic Wars, running as part of their first 20 Madaxeman Podcasts.   Each week the cabal of experts would attempt to lead the spectacularly ill-informed Timmy through the complexities of the Campaigns of Napoleon, with (of course) a particular focus on the battles, armies and cuisine of the various combatants.  Now, those segments have all been lovingly (lazily?) reassembled back into two reasonably coherent podcasts, allowing you to both revisit the heady days of Lockdown (when audio quality quite rightly took a back seat to simply hearing other peoples voices) and at the same time take in the entire sweep of Napoleonic history in two fell swoops. This is Episode One, taking you from the start of Napoleon's troublemaking to the end of the Sean Bean-infused Peninsular War.  Episode Two picks up immediately after this podcast ends, spanning the conflict from the will-it-won't-it-work invasion of Russia (no spoilers here) and continuing right through until the release of the legendary Airfix Hougemont Farmhouse Battle Set.  We hope you enjoy this retro audio treat/endurance test.

In an audio version of a video podcast that is almost certainly far better if you can see what we are talking about, 4 brave CLWC souls head to Nancy in France, taking in a variety of military, cultural and gastronomic sites along the way, many of which are underground (weird I know..?). These include our Le Shuttle experience, Reims, Fort Pompelle, the Hacenkburg Maginot Line Fortress Tour, Nancy, Vimy Ridge, La Coupole Secret Ungerground Nazi Megastructure, an abandoned village, and the nightlife of Verdun. There is also even a short bit of wargaming chat at the end as well! The video version of this podcast can be seen (honestly, it'll be much better) on my YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/@Madaxeman      

A midweek, mid afternoon podcast assembly stagger even deeper into 2026 with an astonishing 2nd podcast of the Spring to tempt your earlobes in this time where knee-deep pollen is coating the UK in a Vallejo-challenging yellow blanket. There is discussion of what's been on the painting table for us all, the pro's and con's of stripping a bunch of angry  Scotsmen, what is white paint called when it's not white and comes from a pen, is "decent food" at a gaming centre an oxymoron, and whether there is an equivalent to the Merlin app to allow us all to decipher which wargamer is which, simply from the sound of their distant whingeing about bad dice. Andy's Quiz also returns with a Knopfler-esque "Dire Straits" themed episode - but, fresh from the Barcelona "it's more than a rumour" mill, Grandpa Dave brings us news direct from El Kreator himself that a v5 of ADLG has now reached slightly beyond "vague thought on some future to-do list" to now stand at the "twinkle in El Kreator's eye" stage..  ..which of course prompts us all to have a good old chunter about what things (as well as folding in the FAQ - of course..) we might look for in the next, still quite-some-way-off edition of L'Art de la Guerre. What do you think of that..!    Victrix Spanish in 28mm  

A motely crew of ADLG podcasters stagger back into the Zoom recording lounge to chunter about the army lists they all used at the recent Oxford round of the Southern League ADLG competition, themed for Islam’s Eastward Expansion (637 to 751). The lists discussed include: 130 Arab Conquest (Dave) 140 Central Asian Turkish (Tim) 179 Hindu Indian (Dave, Richard) 171 Tang Chinese (Gordon, Andy) There is also a return for Andy's Quiz ! The podcast is also available on YouTube with video of us chatting away, and the lists are all posted on the ADLG Wiki (which you can visit using the links for each army name above).      

A veritable gaggle of gamers take to the airwaves to discuss three recent competitions held in Plymouth, Burton (which took place recently in "the land of beer." ) and Bournemouth, all in a rather chilly February of this year. There are also diversions into buying rubbish on eBay from Heinz Games (or at least that's what the AI Summary thought we said..), shipping wargaming stuff from the USofA (pre tariffs!), Central London Club's recent enfatuation with two new rule sets, Jackals and Sword Weirdos, and Mark's progress in finishing a whole book on the Khmer (which he's writing, not simply struggling to read.). There is also talk of commissioning figures, Richard Morgans new SF tome "Thin Air," set on Mars, a bit of Test of Honor as well as Simons upcoming stab at converting Warmaster units and rules to use ADLG's mechanics, which is about to be tried at CLWC in the coming weeks and months.  Towards the end (in its traditional slot, and with its traditional French Techno soundtrack) Andy's Quiz makes a long overdue reappearance, although sadly sans Andy this week. The quiz covers the theme of hesitant allies, inspired by Andy's recent experience at Burton. The quiz answers will be released in the next podcast!  

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 anyone has ever seen a bigger chorizo nugget, whether we are all now far too old to understand this 3D printing malarkey, and if double-carbs is the missing link between Glasgow and the entire Iberian peninsula. The guests on this podcast are Dave "From The Podcast", Dave "Ming the Marxist" and Mark "The FWC Man". The lists we all used in Alicante can be found on the Madaxeman ADLG Wiki. Marks Hungarians Tim & Daves Swiss Daves French Ordonnance   My video of the Cartagena Military Museum

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 lot of clicks and hisses in one section towards the start. It's been a while so our audio setup was even further away from being describable as "slick", and my editing was even more rusty than has been the case in any of the previous hundred+ amateurish episodes. It's a low bar I know... ) As usual: The lists we discuss are available on the Madaxeman website's ADLG Wiki The ADLG content starts about 22:45 in, so you can either start, or stop listening then as you choose There will be a video version of this on my YouTube channel The incidental sad violin music is (perhaps unsurprisngly) "Sad Violin 2", by TheFlyFishingFilmmaker , (License: Attribution 4.0)

Disproving 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 insightful exposition about the contents of Spanish motorway service station vending machines - plus the first ever advert break to ever feature on a Madaxeman Podcast! This whole podcast is also available on the Madaxman YouTube channel where you can see pictures of the lists, some of the games and troops, as well as our tourism and eating exploits too. The army lists can all be found in the ADLG Wiki on the Madaxeman Website 

It'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) in the erudite shapes of Paul Dawson and Richard Case. The lists we look at are all available on the Madaxeman website in the ADLG Wiki, and this pod is also available on YouTube with pictures of troops and the lists themselves too: The list covered are: Late Imperial Roman Hunnic Late Imperial Roman  Patrician Roman Hunnic Roman Clibanarii from Forged in Battle.