Musings of an easily distracted wargamer
I’ve always wanted a pike army to add to me broadly Punic era 15mm armies but I’ve never really been able to face the prospect of painting all those figures! So , on one of the Forged in Battle ancients Kickstarters a few years ago I bought a load of pikemen. And they sat there. … Read more
Many, and I MEAN many years ago I used to play wargames with my cousin Stuart and mate Mark using all our old Airfix figures. Needless to say there was a lot of Roman vs. Ancient Briton action! Somehow I had acquired a set of rules called Legion by Al Margolis published by Fantasy Games … Read more
At Derby a few weeks ago I picked up a wide range of figures from Baccus with a view to putting together an Early Byzantine army for Impetus. As no one does a specific Early range for the Byzantines I was looking at a mix of Late Roman, Sassanid, Goth, Hun types to represent the … Read more
18th July 2009 Well, finally played our first game today. Despite having taken down Mid-Republican Roman and Carthaginians my opponent, Lawrence, had just bought a rather lovely Seleucid army on eBay which had arrived this morning so we decided to christen it! So, Later Seleucid v. Mid-Rep Roman it was. We just went for the … Read more