28mm Plastic Frenzy !!

Doh! I've finally succumbed and bought some 28mm Plastics. I've been fighting the urge for a while, but they are now so cheap (30p a figure??) and there are enough ranges to allow you to morph them into different armies (Auxilia + Vikings = Sub Roman Brits anyone?). Have a look here at what's for sale on eBay UK or look here for US listings. The Warlord Games ECW stuff is available to see here 

Do You Breed Rabbits?

Amazon seem to think rabbit-keeping and ancient wargaming are closely related.... have your say here.

New photos added to the photo directory

The talented Mr Martin Sequerah, from Singapore via Dubai has added some of his very nice brushwork to the photo gallery this week - worth looking out for more to come we hope!

Testudo Miniatures added to the Manufacturer listing

Their Romans and Gauls now available to vote on. MY Miniatures website also updated.

Warfare Half Way Point

1 outright victory on the last roll of a Roman civil war, on losing draw to some resilient Gauls.

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Random Osprey Book Title Generator

Remember the Geekspeak generator? It's had an offspring! The Random Osprey New Book Title Generator is now live and kicking on this site .. If you have any titles or subjects you'd like to see added in, just email me and I can include them...

Warfare this weekend !

I'll be playing FoG at Warfare this weekend - so only a few days to try and bash through the Roll Call match reports before another lot stack up in the to-do pile! Looks like a great trade show this year.

My Opponents From Roll Call

Armies now added to the Wiki in 100YW English Continental (x2), Later Ottoman and Santa Hermandad. Plus a Free Company list used by me, and some others (Early Scots, and Early Sarmatians) that I didn't use. Have you added your lists yet??

New Version of the Wiki in beta

The new layout is now in beta release - it links to the same database, so anything you do will still be added. Just tweaking a few things on the design. Please vote (on the wiki main page) and tell me if you like it !

The Mountain Cheese Olympics

Get your geometric terrain out chaps - Winners of the latest Mountain Cheese Olympics now announced!

Blood & Gold out now

Blood and Gold - the American Lists for Field of Glory is reportedly sneaking out the door soon on Amazon.co.uk (via that link) for under a tenner, or on Amazon US via this link.

New Pages in the FoG Wiki

A few more Wools from The Seams armies now added to the Wiki

Free delivery on everything sold by Amazon UK!

Amazon UK have announced that they now offer free shipping on all orders, no matter what price! Bad news if you run a real-world bookshop, but good news if you want to buy an Osprey or something from the FoG-armies Amazon shop on this site (I'll update the text on that page later..)!

Wiki under maintainance

The Wiki is undergoing maintenance and upgrade this week - so it may well be out for a while....

Imperial Armies of the Thirty Years War (Men-at-arms)

Out on 10/10/09, a New Osprey release for all FoG R playtesters! This history of the Catholic armies of the Hapsburg Empire explores the role of infantry and artillery during the TYW, charting the progression of weapons, organization, tactics, and colorful uniforms used by the infantry and artillery! Boom!!

Wiki Upgrade

I'm upgrading the Wiki software at the moment, so it may not work for while!

Match Reports from Britcon 2009

The Marginally Less Morally Bankrupt Dominate Romans enjoy another outing - this time in a damp Augustine Manchester. Read all about it here.

More Fogipedia pages

Added Anglo Danish, Middle Anglo Saxon and Carolingians to the FoG Wiki, and a few more photos to the photo directory - and someone else created a Uratian Page too! Gradually working through the 6 monster Britcon reports too - maybe ready by the weekend !

Quote of the Day

I've just added a random Military-themed quote over at the top of the right hand column of this site - it's different every time you reload the page. I hope you like them!

Empires of the Dragon released imminently!

Get the Big Fat millions of pages book on the Chinese, Samurai and Koreans (and all those chaps on elephants) from Amazon - out on the 10th Sept apparently.

Match reports from Devizes

Now posted on the Match Reports section of the site. 10mm action....

Match Reports from Rome

See how the Dominate Swarm managed to win another competition !

10mm Parthian WMA Army for Sale

I have found myself the possessor of well over 2000 points of Parthians based up for WMA, and so unfortunately about half of them have to go. They are very nice, and include Steve Barber Camel Cataphracts and some lovely Steve Barber horse archers too. On sale until next Sunday.

You can see them on eBay here

Europe's best FoG Army List?

My MLMB (Marginally Less Morally Bankrupt) Dominate Roman Army is now online in the FoG Wiki by clicking the title of this post. The match reports are underway as well, but not yet ready to publish.

Campiones!

In a turn-up for the books I return from Italy as the newly crowned Campione della Tuttti Europa di FoG !! Taking the huge, embarassing trophy back on the plane - and meeting some I know through work in the departure lounge - was not something I wish to repeat though... Battle report to follow in a couple of weeks.....

Day 1

One big win, one narrow defeat on day 1. My tougher Dom Romans are doing ok, but failed to finish off a load of ottoman LH this pm to lost 16-9 after a 25-0 this am vs Ordonnance French.

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I'm In Roma!

For the IWF Euro's, and gentlemen, let me tell you, it's already hot hot hot! Birra in an ice cream parkour last night to set the tone nicely, and 2 games of FoG to look forward to today.

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WRG Armies & Enemies books available online

The WRG Armies & Enemies series should be part of every ancient and medieval gamers library. But they are sadly out of print. So I've set up a page that drawn in current eBay and Amazon 2nd Hand listings for all the books and pulls them together in one place. So if you want that missing copy, here's where to look!

Britcon - 14-16 August 2009

I've now published a full trader list for Britcon 2009 on this site, as well as details of all the competitions, and a schedule of events. Its available here

FoG Oath of Fealty nearly here...!

Oath of Fealty has snuck up on us all and is only only a week or so away from release. If you click this link you can pre-order it POST FREE from UK Amazon for £10.45 (as of today - that's more than £2.50 cheaper than Caliver Books as a comparison), or $16.47 in the US from this link, however you'll need to buy another $9 of stuff to get free shipping in the US.