Hi! I’ll get the bad news out of the way first. We were hoping to get the Chronicles of Midgard pre-order live today but I have just received news from Richard at Reisswitz/ TFL:

This is really frustrating as I know he was working over the weekend to get everything aligned with the overseas distributors, but nothing we can do about this apart from wait for an update. I’ll share news as soon as we have it.

In much better news, I’ll be on the Plastic Crack Podcast tonight (8 pm GMT, 16th March) to talk about all things Midgard. Please do join us if you can or watch the recording afterwards.

In further YouTube news, I’m very honoured that Little Wars TV delivered a glowing review of Midgard Heroic Battles in a recent episode. Watch it here.

It’s been an exceptionally busy few weeks (aren’t they all?). On February 27th I took possession of the proof copies of Chronicles of Midgard and then demoed the campaign system the following day at the Hammerhead Show in Newark.

Big thanks to Pete, Paul and Mike who ran games all day too.

Not forgetting Boondock Sayntes, who also had a stunning Relief of Minas Tirith game at the show, also using Midgard…

Although the book is done, there’s a couple of final things that need sorting before Reisswitz Press get the pre-order up and running. I’ll let you know as soon as it’s live.

I’ve been hunched over the camera capturing images for The Iron Valley – this will be the first of the Goblet-Sized PDF Campaigns for Midgard and features both 28mm and 10mm miniatures.

In case you missed it, Little Wars TV have a fab new video up on their site – the Battle of Bosworth using Midgard Heroic Battles. This is very entertaining and it’s extremely flattering that they enjoyed the rules so much (you may spot a couple of minor errors in the video but it doesn’t seem to have stopped them having a blast, exactly as it should be!) Well worth 30 minutes of your time.

Getting ready for some Viking & Saxon action at Hammerhead (Newark Showground on February 28th). We’ll be running games of Midgard Heroic Battles throughout the day as well as showcasing the campaign system featured in the forthcoming supplement, Chronicles of Midgard. Show details are here: https://www.hammerheadshow.co.uk/home

After years of hand-painting my own banners, I decided to scan my latest creations and make them available for download at Wargame Vault: https://www.wargamevault.com/en/browse?keyword=mogsymakes

There are initially three sets available, all designed for Saxons and Vikings.

There’s also a short video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nSE26PnEJl4?si=1Yhj1E7aBg1oeLCp 28mm minis in these examples by Pulp Miniatures, Footsore, Artizan & Gripping Beast.

You can see the banners page with full details here.

I’m continuing to reorganise the website to make older posts easier to find. The latest addition is a Trojan Wars in 6mm page, which collects three blog posts together about the making of this project. There’s also a 3 minute YouTube video, which you can see here.

The 28mm Trojan Wars collection will be next on the list.

The mighty Australian gaming convention that is CanCon ran over the weekend of 24-26th January 2026 at Exhibition Park in Canberra, and I was delighted to see photos of so many Midgard Heroic Battles games running as part of the Lard Zone. My budget hasn’t allowed a trip yet but the enthusiastic game organisers have provided me with enough information to put together this post!

An array of games ran over the three days in multiple different settings – exactly what Midgard Heroic Battles was intended to do!

Faramir’s Last Charge was a 40mm spectacular battle set, of course, during The Lord of the Rings.

Middle-earth had a second visitation with a 28mm game based on John Savage’s Fords of Isen scenario, as featured in Lard Magazine 2024.

Ragnar Skwigelf (AKA Darren) and his mates have been play testing some of the new scenarios that feature in the forthcoming Chronicles of Midgard supplement and decided to showcase one. ‘Scale the Walls’ was an absolute beaut, featuring an early medieval clash with Welsh and Saxons in conflict over a superb fortified town.

Andrew Bishop and his friends ran three different games over the three days using their extensive miniature collections to produce some epic battles: Vikings vs Normans, Goblins vs Dwarves and an Arthurian fantasy mash-up . Love the big units!

Huge thanks to David Williams, Ragnar Skwigelf, Jason Dickie and Andrew Bishop who contributed photos and ran the games along with teams of their chums. To see the effort you’ve put into running these – along with the wonderful minis and terrain – is an absolute joy. Cheers!

After picking up the Tlingit vs Russians project again, I wrote a couple of scenarios for Osprey’s Rebels & Patriots. Tom, Pete and I played these through at the Soldier Shack a couple of weeks ago. R & P works brilliantly for this and we all enjoyed the two games, with the Tlingit and Russians winning one apiece.

I’ve created a short video which you can see here, and Tom has two picture battle reports available on his blog – first game and second game.

You can see the Tlingit vs Russians project page here – more to come!

The Tolkien’s Middle-earth page of the site has finally had an update, including the addition of a much-needed page for the Orcs! I’ve also linked some of the key Middle-earth battle reports for Midgard Heroic Battles that had been hard to find on the blog.

Not only that, but there’s also a very short video covering the Orc host! My son has helped me out with this and the website update as part of his Duke of Edinburgh’s award.

A very brief post just to let you know that bookings for Midgard Moot 2 are open. Find all the details here with the email to contact to book a place.

Midgard Moot II: 25th April 2026

I’ve had very little time to dedicate to the YouTube channel recently but I recently found a few hours to film a few Midgard combat situations that might be of interest to both new and regular players – you can see it here. Do let me know if there’s anything you’d like to cover in future episodes and please do like and subscribe if you’ve enjoyed any of the content.

The other news from today is that I’ve been writing the index for Chronicles of Midgard, but I didn’t think that was a very exciting headline 🙂