Faenza III Now posted

Slightly shorter than usual, but I now have a backlog of 6 more reports to do...

BKC day in Portbury today.

Match reports to follow ...

Lots more Dullcote-ed TYW Pictures

The Testors Dullcote arrived in the post today, allowing me to matt finish my TYW figures. Here are the results ....

Faenza Game 2 now posted

Persians vs Romans, Kenneth is back....

DBMM - does it need a 147 sided dice ?

DBMM is now available on Amazon.co.uk - and apparently is now currently the best-selling book on snooker on sale across Britain !

Anyways, if you wish to purchase a copy you can get DBMM V2 on Amazon.co.uk here.

Italian Arabs?

Two bits of good news for fans of Italian made Ghulam figures. First Legio Heroica are having a 20% off sale until July 20th on all orders above 40 Euros. Secondly, Mirliton (or Vexillia in the UK) have released some new Crusades Era Arabs.

Exciting times huh?

Game 1 from Faenza - Report now published

Caesar is in the house. 

28mm ECW/TYW - More pictures of work in progress

Cavalry and infantry from Foundry (some pikemen), Perry (artillery crew), Old Glory (Turkic cavalry), 1st Corps (Swedish cavalry in funny helmets), Dixon (Dragoons) and a lot of Warlord Games Plastics.

Faenza Reports underway

The full report of Team Infamy at Faenza is being written at the moment....
 

Photos from a week in Paris

Loads of pics of this sort of stuff... 

Mine and my opponents list from Faenza 2010

Just added to the Wiki, Graeco Bactrians, Early Aechemenid Persians, Alexandrian Macedonians, Seleucids and Principate Romans. Read all about them in The Roman Army of the Principate 27 BC-AD 117 (Osprey Battle Orders) !

New Xyston Carthaginians

    

I've just been sent some Xyston Carthaginians to review and post here. And - as usual - very nice they are too. The one's I have been sent include a pack of officers, a pack of musicians and standard bearers, some Numidian skirmishers and an Elephant (click links for pictures).

They come with separate shields, but with backs that look like they will stick onto the figures arms well enough. The officers have short stubby swords, which look a bit ineffectual, but an imposing array of headgear should compensate and frighten the Romans!

The "musicians" are actually both trumpeters, with 4 further standard bearers in various poses - they will need wire spears and the standards come as head pieces only with a hand, a horses head and some symbols making up the set of four.

The Elephant looks to be a proper "African-sized" beast, slightly smaller than many out there from other manufacturers, and comes with 1 mahout only. It will need a little filler as the two halves have gaps when glued together.

Finally the Numidian skirmishers again will need their hands drilling to take a wire javelin and would be suitable as any generic Classical-era javelin man if painted with a non-Numidian skin tone.

Here's another FoG Rule idea

This idea came up in conversation this weekend. When testing for losing a melee you have the option to take a +1 on the Cohesion test ... but if you do, you also take a -1 on the corresponding death roll. Neat huh? (Elephants & some others excepted..)

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

Just finished a great little book - nicely written in an almost-a-novel style. Well worth a look if you are into this period. See the
UK Version or US Version on Amazon

Central London FoG

Here's some experimental house mods for FoG to try out - aimed at breaking the tyranny of the IGOUGO move system and injecting a little bit of chaos into the game...  Tell me what you think!

15mm Irish Women anyone ...?

Trey Corbies ("Three Ravens")are a new 15mm figure manufacturer, based out of Canada and making a range of Pre-Christian Irish women warriors (so far). Now added to the 15mm figure manufacturer directory on this site

FoG Renaissance sneak peak...

I picked the 2010/11 Osprey catalogue up at a book trade event recently, and it had this advert in it for FoG Renaissance.

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The Mystery Men identified

Looks like they are from 1st Corps / Kingmaker Miniatures.

Help! Figure Identification needed

Anyone got any ideas which manufacturer these figures are from? They are 28mm ECW.TYW cavalry, and the rider is cast together with the saddle. I bought them 2nd hand, and have got 10 of them but need 12 - but I'm not sure where to look ! Any ideas just drop me a line at the usual address....

Click the picture to see a bigger version.

Warlord Games Renaissance Figures

I'm part way through painting some Warlord Games 28mm plastic ECW figures as TYW Imperialists - first up is a Spanish Tercio. Here's a sneak peak at a unit that might feature in a battle report later this year.

Pics of new Xyston Spanish and casualties

Xyston have sent me a few samples of their latest releases - an ancient Spanish range and some Greek hoplite casualties. As usual the figures have the cleanly cast, angular look of Xyston's typical style, but in a new innovation (to me) some of the Spanish have been cast with separate arms to allow greater variety in sword poses

The figures are not as huge as some Xyston ranges - maybe a concession to compatibility with other ranges, but the Spanish would still struggle to mix well with Corvus Belli's market-leading set.

It will be interesting to see if the casualty figures are a one-off, or whether Xyston will be building a range to compete with Donningtons large range of dead guys - but starting with hoplites must be a good idea, as I;ve always found that protected spearmen get disrupted very easily!

Cheap FoG & WAB Books, Warlord Games Plastic Figures

Iain Hicken has closed his UK wargames business, The Hobbybox

Badcon Match 4 -The End !

The 4th and final match from Badcon 2010 finally makes it to the site. See Al'Shearers comment on his Fatimids vs the Early Hungarians.

Badcon Match 3

Match 3 in the Badcon series now posted as the Fatimid Egyptians take on the Scots Irish

Legio Heroica Pics

The Arab and Crusader ranges from Legio Heroica have now all been added to the Ancients Photo Gallery, and the 2nd match report from Badcon is now also posted

Legio Heroica

The Feudal and Swiss ranges from Legio Heroica have been added to the Ancients Photo Gallery - their Crusades ranges will be added soon. They also have a "sale" on until 10th March, with up to 10 Euro's worth of free postage on all their ranges - enough to get you free postage for most orders across most of Europe.

 

Varnish

New Auction listing now added to the site for Matt Varnish and Army Painter Quickshade. Not that exciting really, unless you want to buy some matt varnish.

First Video Report From Badcon

First match report from Badcon now posted. Includes the Al Shearer Infantry making an appearance.

Lists from badcon now on the site

900AP FoG lists from Badcon 2010 now on the site including Early Hungarian, Feudal Aragonese, Scots Isles & Highlands, Nikephorians and our own Fatimid Egyptians.

New Mirliton Swiss in the Photo Gallery

New photos of recently painted 15mm Swiss now on display