Author Archives: mogsymakes

Well, no, not until Wargames Atlantic released their recent Goblins boxed set. I’ve had a great time kitbashing my own vision of a Tolkien Orc force over the last few years, combining the GW LotR Orcs with plenty of Oathmark goblins, Warlord Games Orcs and as many different historical plastic sprues as I can getContinue reading “Do I need any more Orcs?”

The Fir Bolg – ‘People of the Bag’ – appear in Irish mythology as the indigenous people of Eriu, who are displaced by the Tuatha de Danaan. For the classic range of Fir Bolg created for Nottingham-based Alternative Armies in the 1990s, sculptor Andy Cooper gave them a look that mixes elements of Neanderthal, CeltContinue reading “Celtic Myth: Fir Bolg”

The big push to get various frosty terrain and figures finished off was prompted by last week’s gaming fixture – a run-out of my Midgard rules at the club with old chum Kev M visiting from sunny Leeds. Tom WD had correctly pointed that, for a rules set entitled Midgard, we’d played hardly any gamesContinue reading “Norse Myth Round Up Part 2: The Battle of Thor’s Hill”

One of my collections that I’ve been developing alongside the Midgard project has been forces suitable for Norse mythology. Some of these are quite specific, such as Norse gods and frost giants, others do double duty with other game settings – like my Tolkien Dwarves or Red Book of the Elf King figures. There’s noContinue reading “Norse Myth Round Up Part 1: Figures & Terrain”

I’ve been running games based on Tolkien’s Silmarillion for a few years, but have always had a dragon-sized gap in my collection. Glaurung – a malevolent, wingless wyrm – features heavily in the First Age of Middle-earth and there have been many great interpretations of him on the Wargaming In Middle Earth Facebook page (aContinue reading “Glaurung: the first dragon of Middle-earth”

It’s now a week after Partizan on the Ground and our big El Cid Battle of Bairen game. It’s been lovely seeing all the photos circulating on the internet – despite the fact that not everyone was able to make it to the show under the circumstances (several friends of mine included), being able toContinue reading “Partizan Round-Up and El Cid Vignettes”

Sunday 10th October 2021 saw the return of Partizan, the showcase East Midlands wargames show at Newark Showground. To say that I was excited about this was an understatement. I had plans to run a game set in 1800s Alaska, but the return of Scrivs from the US with his substantial El Cid collection ofContinue reading “El Cid: the Battle of Bairen, 1097 CE”

I’ve been spending a few hours organising units from my El Cid collection this week. We’re planning to put on a version of the Battle of Bairen (1097 CE) at the Partizan show in Newark on October 10th, giving my own Midgard rules their first public run-out. Midgard uses a standard base frontage of 120mmContinue reading “Jinetes for the Age of El Cid”

Yesterday I was able to get in a game set in medieval Spain with old mucker Scrivs. Using my own Midgard rules (now into yet more testing), we were preparing for the game that we are planning to put on at the Partizan show in Newark on October 10th.  Today’s game was to be aContinue reading “‘Wounded by Pedro, stood on by a horse’: El Cid rides again”

…or some more Second Age scrappage from the gaming table.   Paul W and I notched up another test game of my Midgard rules this week with his Elves commanded by Glorfindel versus my Orc host under Akdar, Captain of Trolls.  While the basic flow of the rules is pretty much sorted, we were spending someContinue reading “Glorfindel gets a smiting…”