Author Archives: mogsymakes

This was an excellent question that I was asked last week on the Lead Adventure Forum (a very civilised corner of the internet, if you still do forums), so I thought I’d tackle it in this week’s Midgard article. While it’s not difficult to adapt historical rules sets for fantasy, and vice versa, I alwaysContinue reading “How do the Fantastical Elements work in Midgard Heroic Battles?”

Hi all! I’ve spent part of this week remodelling the Midgard Heroic Battles page on the site and have included a number of links to help out with FAQs, including: What is Midgard Heroic Battles? and a list of Key Facts and Game Synopsis, all illustrated with photos from this summer’s games. Hopefully this willContinue reading “Midgard Heroic Battles: page update and Facebook page goes live 20.9.24”

Looking for a break from Midgard and Xenos Rampant, Paul W and I decided to pull out Red Book of the Elf King for a fun Thursday night game, and it didn’t disappoint. This is a brilliant little set of rules by Rick Priestley, written back in 2017 to support Lucid Eye‘s figure range ofContinue reading “Star Fall – Red Book of the Elf King”

With our usual club having a week off, I decided to book in a game of Xenos Rampant with Paul W. Having only recently heard about 7th City Collectables, a local gaming store just a few miles away from me on the outskirts of Nottingham, I booked a table and pulled the poilus out ofContinue reading “Return to Xenos Rampant & a visit to 7th City Collectables”

Having started on a bit of a whim, the 28mm Trojan Wars project is finally about to make its first public appearance at the Lard Workshop as part of Britcon 2024 in Nottingham this weekend. What started as an impulse buy of a few Lucid Eye miniatures then turned into the acquisition of a fullContinue reading “28mm Trojan Wars: Chariots, Archers and Achilles”

(*If you missed Part 1, you can read it here) As well as our Battle of the River Idle game, there were two other miniature wargames on offer at the event. Grahame, Carl and a number of other stalwart members of the Peterborough Wargames Club had made the trip to Suffolk. They too had chosenContinue reading “Wargaming the Age of the Anglo-Saxons at Sutton Hoo, July 2024 (Pt 2*)”

Following on from last year’s experiment with a one-day format, this year the Sutton Hoo team expanded the Wargaming the Age of the Anglo-Saxons event into a two-day event. Having personally toured Sutton Hoo during the excavations in the 1990s, it has to be said that the National Trust have done an amazing job ofContinue reading “Wargaming the Age of the Anglo-Saxons at Sutton Hoo, July 2024 (Pt 1)”

It’s nearly time for our second visit to Sutton Hoo as part of the National Trust’s Festival of Archaeology. We are delighted to have been invited back to run miniature wargames based on the Anglo-Saxon period. This was one of my personal highlights of last year – you can see my full picture report hereContinue reading “Preview: Wargaming the Age of the Anglo-Saxons at Sutton Hoo (27-28th July 2024)”