Author Archives: mogsymakes

Seeing as it’s the festive season, it’s probably time for the pics of the Draugr from Ragnarok Miniatures. I’ve never been a massive fan of undead but the current crop of outstanding miniatures has been slowly crumbling my resolve; the rather wonderful Oathmark Revenants, alongside skeletons from Reaper, Oathmark and Wargames Atlantic have all found theirContinue reading “Norse Undead: Draugr by Ragnarok Miniatures”

I was delighted when old chums Gripping Beast became the distributors for the Ragnarok range of Norse fantasy minis, sculpted by GB co-founder Colin Patten. I already have a number of Colin’s Dwarves from various companies, so while I didn’t really *need* any more longbeards, the Durinn’s Folk range had to be sampled! In the pictures,Continue reading “Durinn’s Folk: Ragnarok Dwarves from Gripping Beast”

The Fall In convention took place on November 4th and 5th in the US and amongst the many games was this fantastic Middle-earth battle in 10mm, presented by Chris Grau. Chris had spent some time planning his own version of Helm’s Deep and decided to run with my forthcoming Midgard Heroic Battles rules. Over twoContinue reading “Helm’s Deep with Midgard Heroic Battles at Fall In 2023, USA”

I’ve always enjoyed painting minis but never really got the hang of taking photos (generally because I had friends who were better at it than me), but one of the things I picked up from numerous photo sessions at Wargames Illustrated magazine was simple: backdrops massively improve your shots. Jon Hodgson has always been adeptContinue reading “A Change of Scene: Jon Hodgson Backdrops Book”

Following on from his successful ‘Fords of Isen’ game at Historicon 2023, Chris Grau of Feldgrau Productions will be running four games of Midgard Heroic Battles at November’s Fall In event (3-5th November 2023, Lancaster, PA, USA). Midgard can be used for a wide variety of historical, legendary and fantasy settings, but has been popularContinue reading “Midgard in the USA: Helm’s Deep at Fall-In”

Tom WD and I are big fans of Osprey’s Of Gods And Mortals game, published ten years ago but still getting played by us on a fairly regular basis. Fortunately Kev Moon and friends at the ELMS club in Leeds are also regular players, so we like to get together every so often to throwContinue reading “Of Gods And Mortals: Clash of the Gods Event”

While Midgard Heroic Battles is going through the editing and quality control process here in the UK, there’s an opportunity to try out the rules in the USA coming up. Expat and long-term play tester Scrivs will be chipping in to the Deep Dish Lard Day at Noble Knight Games in Wisconsin on Saturday 9thContinue reading “Midgard Heroic Battles in the USA”

This has been a slow-burning project but a renewed interest in the Trojan War over the last few months has pushed me towards getting these Lucid Eye Amazons on to the table. To be honest, these don’t really fit Penthesilia and her 12 Amazon bodyguards described by the classical writers, but I love the MyceneanContinue reading “Amazon War Host”

Sutton Hoo has been in my awareness for nearly my entire life; from seeing the iconic helmet and shield at the British Museum as a child, admiring Angus McBride’s illustrations in Osprey books as a teenager and visiting the end of the excavations on site in the early 1990s, I have collected the miniatures andContinue reading “Wargaming the age of the Anglo-Saxons at Sutton Hoo”