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Great news this morning, it’s out! You can buy this as a PDF download from Reisswitz Press here. À Montfort! À Montfort! is the second Goblet-Size Campaign for Midgard Heroic Battles.  Using the campaign system from Chronicles of Midgard, this historical 41-page supplement delves into the Second Barons’ War in which Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, tookContinue reading “À Montfort! À Montfort! released”

I’m very pleased to say that the second Goblet-Size Campaign for Midgard Heroic Battles is nearly ready. Richard has been burning the midnight oil finishing off the layout while I’ve been drawing maps in a medieval monk-style and checking all the statlines with a red pen! The campaign contains a brief historical background, five newContinue reading “À Montfort! À Montfort!”

I’m very excited to be helping Ryan Lavelle of the University of Winchester in putting on a new one day event themed around Viking age warfare. The format is similar to Lardy Days/ Midgard Moot, with two hosted games but also a couple of talks about the connections between wargaming and historical research. Game systemsContinue reading “Winchester Shieldwall – Saturday 21st November 2026”

The second Goblet-Sized Campaign for Midgard Heroic Battles has now finished play testing and will be on its way to layout soon. Having already released The Iron Valley fantasy campaign, this time around it’s a very historical affair dealing with the Second Barons’ War, covering the period 1264-65. I’ve been busy photographing Paul Scrivens-Smith’s fabContinue reading “Second Barons’ War Goblet-Sized Campaign forthcoming”

We had a brilliant time in Sheffield on June 28th attending the Joy of Six event, a very friendly affair involving nothing but 6mm games! Matt, Tom and I had an enjoyable day running our Battle of Grizzly Peak game set in Glorantha (the bronze-age fantasy world for the Runequest RPG) using Midgard Heroic Battles.Continue reading “Joy of Six event & more videos”

Tom WD, Matt M and I spent this afternoon sorting out our Midgard Heroic Battles game for next week’s Joy of Six show (Sheffield UK, 28th June). Unit labelling took a while as Matt has been busy creating new troops for the game, mostly from Rapier, Baccus and Irregular Miniatures. Terrain has been scratchbuilt byContinue reading “More Glorantha in 6mm: The Battle of Grizzly Peak”

I built a load of these when the Oathmark goblin slaves kit appeared, but only finished them this week!  Here are three units of Orc archers built using a mixture of plastic kits.  There are a number of GW LOTR Goblins, Orcs and Uruk-Hai in there alongside Oathmark and Wargames Atlantic Goblins and Warlord GamesContinue reading “Orc Archers”

The next show appearance from Morris & Chums will be at Joy of Six in Sheffield, UK on Sunday 28th June 2026 (full show details here). The show is dedicated to 6mm miniature wargaming, so we’ll be bringing along another Midgard Heroic Battles game set in Glorantha (the Runequest RPG’s fantasy world). Matt Moran andContinue reading “Joy of Six show in Sheffield”

I’m delighted to be part of Lard Workshop which returns to Britcon in Leicester, UK this August! There’s a double dose of Midgard Heroic Battles available for you to come and play (no figures needed, just book a ticket). I’m running the Battle of Tumhalad from Tolkien’s Silmarillion (you can see the page on thisContinue reading “Midgard at Britcon 2026”