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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”

We’re very excited to be heading down to Sutton Hoo at the weekend for the National Trust’s Festival of Archaeology. We’ll be running participation games for two 7th Century battles – Degsastan 603 (using 15mm miniatures) and River Idle 616 (using 28mm miniatures), as well as helping to host a painting table where you canContinue reading “Anglo-Saxon Wargaming at Sutton Hoo – 30th July 2023”

After a renewed interest in the Trojan War recently, I’ve been working away on more 28mm Amazons from Lucid Eye. I have a job lot of these from various sales that I’m determined to get painted up this year! These are beautiful sculpts but there’s quite a lot of flash to clean up, so IContinue reading “Amazon Chariots & Cavalry”

With Salute 50 out of the way and Partizan coming up, I added a few extra pieces to the ‘Against the Frost Giants’ scenario that we’ll be playing in Newark on May 21st 2023. There will, in fact, be two games on show – the 28mm Against the Frost Giants game (with a Norse mythContinue reading “Against the Frost Giants: Partizan Show Preview 2023”

Following the game’s first appearance at Salute 50 in London, Martin popped over for a much quieter gaming experience – a kitchen table rematch of Northumbria vs Dal Riada at the Battle of Degsastan in 603 CE. I’ve played this game many times since reading Guy Halsall’s article in Miniature Wargames magazine in the 1980s,Continue reading “The Battle of Degsastan in 15mm”

With the rainbow bridge terrain piece complete, on April 22 it was time for the big one: Salute 50!  The UK’s biggest miniature wargames show takes place every year at ExCel in Docklands, London; I hadn’t been since 2015 so was very excited about a return to the fiftieth edition of Salute. Salute is absolutely hugeContinue reading “Hammer of the Gods: Midgard Heroic Battles at Salute 2023”