Date for your diaries: Midgard Moot 3 has been booked for Saturday 1st May 2027 at our usual venue, Boards and Swords Hobbies, Derby, UK.

The themed 28mm campaign will be Second Barons’ War using the Muster Rolls from the A Montfort! A Montfort! Goblet-Sized Campaign, plus there will be the usual eclectic selection of historical, fantasy and legendary hosted games.

More details as I have them. Bookings will open in January 2027.

Cheers!

I seem to be working on about three projects at once at the moment, but this week it’s been some Norse Irish. Thinking loosely about a Brian Boru or Battle of Clontarf project, I bought some of the new Victrix Irish and have been mixing the parts with Vikings.

I’ve added a Norse Irish page to the Early Medieval section of the site which gives a more detailed peek at the project – please do have a look!

I was very chuffed to get the latest Wargames Illustrated (WI 467, Nov 2026) which contains an article by myself and Ryan Lavelle of the University of Winchester.

I consulted Ryan for help with the historical background and map used in From Athelney to Ethandun – the sample historical campaign included in Chronicles of Midgard – and the article looks at how we combined history and gaming.

James Griffiths at WI took some cracking photos of my collection to illustrate the article too!

Seeing as it’s the anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt today, I thought I’d share the video again from last year’s refight at The Other Partizan 2025.

Hordes of glorious 28mm Perry Miniatures painted by Paul Scrivens-Smith using Midgard Heroic Battles rules, of course!

It’s taken me nearly two weeks but I finally got the video report of the Battle of Hastings edited and finished! Partizan Poet Will also makes an appearance at the end after the game won ‘Best In Show’.

Catch all the action here.

Something I’ve finished in the last week: some medieval boat men and their vessels to transport Simon de Montfort across the Medway in April 1264. These will be making an appearance in our Midgard game at CrackCon7 at Boards and Swords Hobbies on Saturday. We’ll be playing the night time attack on Rochester Castle and are very much looking forward to it!

Minis by Wargames Atlantic, Footsore Miniatures & Games, Fireforge and Crusader Miniatures with some conversions for the boat men. Vessels by Barrage Miniatures, Coritani/ Magnetic Displays and IGS Miniatures.

Bridge scratch built by Paul Scrivens-Smith who will also be running the game with me on Saturday. Backdrop is from the More Skies book by Jon Hodgson at Handiwork Games.

Sunday 11th October is The Other Partizan show at Newark Showground, Notts, UK, and it’s a very special one for me. Having showcased my Midgard Heroic Battles rules over the last few years, I’m doing it again, but without a single figure from my collection on the table!

Instead, I’m helping to run a massive version of the 1066 Battle of Hastings for the Hastings 960 project in conjunction with Peter’s Paperboys, using 16,000 miniatures – one for every warrior at the battle. I’ve just posted a full article about this which you can read here, including the Forces that we’re using for Midgard.

There are also three other Midgard Heroic Battles games at the show and I’ll put out another post later in the week to let you know about those.

You can find the game at Table DG13 – look for the 15′ long hill and Hastings 960 and Midgard banners.

If you’re not at the show, we’ll have plenty of pictures and video to follow!

Following requests for Samurai for Midgard Heroic Battles, we’ve put together something for the Sengoku period in collaboration with Peter’s Paperboys.

Samurai are not my specialist subject, so I drew upon the work of Midgard gamers Mark Denny, Mark Piper and William Smith to create a pair of sample Forces and some new Traits. Mirko Bruner did the layout, illustrated with photos of the new Peter’s Paperboys Sengoku range.

While it’s not a full campaign booklet, hopefully this will get some Samurai onto the table! The 38 page booklet is available to download free here.

I was delighted to be a guest on the 20 Sided Gamified Podcast in August, and the episode is finally out. With Professor Ryan Lavelle, we talk about Winchester Shieldwall, the Viking-age wargaming event that’s taking place at the University of Winchester on November 21st.

The event will include hosted games of Chivalry & Honour, Midgard Heroic Battles, Comitatus and Pillage, as well as some short talks about the crossover between historical research and wargaming. (Spotify link here or available wherever you find your podcasts. )

If you’re interested in attending the Winchester Shieldwall event, we’re open to experienced gamers and complete beginners. You don’t need any miniatures, just turn up and play. Tickets (£25 for the day) available here.

I’ve finally finished editing my video of the Attack on Northampton during the Second Barons’ War. Back in July, Midgard chum Lee Sanders came up to (very) sunny Nottingham to play through this scenario from the À Montfort! À Montfort! Goblet-Size Campaign using Midgard Heroic Battles. This is my first crack at a longer format battle report (normally my videos are a briefer summary, this one’s a full hour).

You can see it here on YouTube.

Apologies if the sound is a bit variable, we were playing next to a working office and the lovely glass display cabinets do make the sound bounce around. The scenario was good fun; I’ve played this one multiple times and the result with Lee was the closest I’ve had. Fighting through the breach in the wall at Northampton made for quite a challenge, as Henry lll and his mates found out! Many thanks to Lee for making the trip to Nottingham, North Star for kindly hosting us and Paul Scrivens-Smith for the loan of his super miniatures collection.