The second Goblet-Sized Campaign for Midgard Heroic Battles has now finished play testing and will be on its way to layout soon. Having already released The Iron Valley fantasy campaign, this time around it’s a very historical affair dealing with the Second Barons’ War, covering the period 1264-65. I’ve been busy photographing Paul Scrivens-Smith’s fab collection for the campaign – here’s an out take from that session (background from the Skies book by Jon Hodgson Backdrops).

News on release date as soon as I have it!

We had a brilliant time in Sheffield on June 28th attending the Joy of Six event, a very friendly affair involving nothing but 6mm games!

Matt, Tom and I had an enjoyable day running our Battle of Grizzly Peak game set in Glorantha (the bronze-age fantasy world for the Runequest RPG) using Midgard Heroic Battles.

You can see our game and a short interview here on the Storm of Steel YouTube channel.

I also took some photos of Simon Stokes’ wonderful 6mm Battle of Lewes forces (all Baccus 6mm minis painted by Simon) and will hopefully include some of these in the forthcoming Second Barons’ War Goblet-Sized Campaign.

There’s a number of new Midgard Heroic Battles videos made by Midgard fans doing the rounds at the moment – I can’t watch them all, but I did enjoy the Crusty Colonel’s solo play throughs of the From Athelney to Ethandun campaign. Not too long and gives you a good idea of the narrative within the Chronicles of Midgard campaign system. You can see his latest episode here.

Walt Leach and friends in the USA have been playing through some huge games of Midgard using 54mm figures! You can see their Battle of Bannockburn episode on Bill’s Wargames World here (beware of dodgy Scots accents!) 🙂

Tom WD, Matt M and I spent this afternoon sorting out our Midgard Heroic Battles game for next week’s Joy of Six show (Sheffield UK, 28th June).

Unit labelling took a while as Matt has been busy creating new troops for the game, mostly from Rapier, Baccus and Irregular Miniatures.

Terrain has been scratchbuilt by me with a Jon Hodgson Backdrop to set the whole thing off.

Once the show is out of the way, I’ll post the lists that Matt has created.

I built a load of these when the Oathmark goblin slaves kit appeared, but only finished them this week!  Here are three units of Orc archers built using a mixture of plastic kits.  There are a number of GW LOTR Goblins, Orcs and Uruk-Hai in there alongside Oathmark and Wargames Atlantic Goblins and Warlord Games Orcs.

Each unit is based on a 120 x 60 mm round cornered 2mm MDF base from Warbases.  I’ve got so many individually-based Orcs that I thought I’d just make these into mini dioramas for Midgard Heroic Battles games. 

The paint job is pretty rough and ready but I wanted to get 36 done in a very short amount of time (looking back at the pics I can see a few missed mould lines, but it’s the overall effect I’m after).  

Banners are from my Mogsymakes site on Wargame Vault and backgrounds by Jon Hodgson Backdrops again.

The next show appearance from Morris & Chums will be at Joy of Six in Sheffield, UK on Sunday 28th June 2026 (full show details here).

The show is dedicated to 6mm miniature wargaming, so we’ll be bringing along another Midgard Heroic Battles game set in Glorantha (the Runequest RPG’s fantasy world). Matt Moran and Tom WD will be providing all the minis and I’ll be on terrain duties.

Last year we presented the Battle of Pavis but this year I am busy carving polystyrene foam to move the action to another setting in Glorantha!

I’m delighted to be part of Lard Workshop which returns to Britcon in Leicester, UK this August!

There’s a double dose of Midgard Heroic Battles available for you to come and play (no figures needed, just book a ticket). I’m running the Battle of Tumhalad from Tolkien’s Silmarillion (you can see the page on this game from Partizan 2024 here). Backgrounds by Jon Hodgson Backdrops, of course.

Matt Slade is back to the Battle of Hastings 1066 with his awesome miniature collection!

You can find out more about the event and get tickets here (not many left, I understand). Cheers!

I’ve been long overdue to do another video, so here’s the Battle of Lewes from Partizan this year.

The Second Barons’ War is the theme of the next Goblet-Sized Campaign for Midgard Heroic Battles; it’s just in the final stages of play testing and hopefully we’ll have news in the next few months about it.

Fortunately I have no shortage of figures to photograph thanks to the ever-prolific Scrivs!

I’ve just added a full Partizan preview for our Lewes 1264 game. You’ll find us at DG10 next to the Lard Zone.

We very much hope to see some of you at the show and, for those who can’t make it, I’ll film some footage while we’re there.

Cheers!

Terrific test play of my Battle of Lewes 1264 scenario in preparation for the Partizan Show (May 17th, Newark Showground, UK) with chum Tom. Using Midgard Heroic Battles, the game went the full six turns and was full of drama.

Richard of Cornwall was captured in his first melee; Lord Edward fell foul of a Londoner’s dagger; and Simon de Montfort’s charge with his reserves carried the battle for the barons. Look out for a bigger version at Partizan!

(Nearly all Wargames Atlantic 28mm minis painted by Paul Scrivens-Smith, terrain mat by Geek Villain)

Midgard Moot 2 ran at Boards And Swords Hobbies last weekend and it was an absolute joy; 45 gamers, 10 games hosts, 48 games of Midgard Heroic Battles. You can see the whole picture report here. Thanks to Pete Jenkins for the photos!