Central London News

It sounds very much as if the Perseverance pub has closed for refurbishment, and that the refurbed property will no longer accommodate wargamers. This means we are now officially back to only one night a week, which is Tuesday in The Cock.

Hubcon Part 1

First Match Report now posted. (uh-huh!)

Elvis Hannibal...

Hubcon reports underway

Just to let you know that the match reports from Hubcon are underway. There is also a very real chance that there will be commentary from Hannibal Elvis....

Hubcon this coming weekend

Hubcon updates this week

Final Oxford FoG:R Report

See what happens when Sir Henry Hannibal meets Swiss Tony !

"Playing FoG:Renaissance is like making love to a beautiful woman...."

Oxford - FoG Renaissance Game 3

A Right Royal Catholic Civil War takes place. Click the photo to go to the Report

More Rabbit related Wargaming News!

You may remember the rather disturbing Amazon thinks people who buy Richard Bodley Scott's books  also keep pet Rabbits posting on this site from a year or so ago? Well, in another bit of strange synchronicity, it turns out the the Rivermead Leisure Center in Reading, home to the annual Warfare show and competition is also hosting The London Championship Show - one of the key Rabbit-based event in the UK Rabbiting calendar.

Go Figure!

New Poles out now from Vexillia

I'll be adding the photos to the 15mm directory and links to the Wiki shortly... 

More TYW Pictures

Yet more 28mm Warlord Games plastics now painted ! The Armypainter Quickshade really works well on these, even if I say so myself!

First FoG Renaissance Battle Reports

The first two reports (of 4) from Oxford FoG:R Doubles have been posted - TYW Catholics vs Swedes and then Ottomans. Get a feel for how the forthcoming rules work, and also meet the greatest general of the Renaissance age, Sir Henry Hannibal!

Clink on the links in this post to go to the report.

Portbury BKC Day

Reports and photos from 3 Blitzkrieg Commander games at Portbury in July this year - here's the link to the reports

Faenza is finished!

All 4 games now up there.

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.

  Click on the picture to see a bigger version

The Mystery Men identified

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