Legio Wargames

With a revision of Comitatus in the works it is time for a play test. The battle chosen is Meshike (AD 244) with Persians attempting to...

Over the next few months I will be play-testing my revised Comitatus rules . One battle I wish to play is Dasymon (aka Anzen or Amorion)....

For the third year in a row Wargaming the Anglo-Saxons returned to Sutton Hoo 26-27 July. Our group set up a simple skirmish game using...

Joining the Society of Ancients stand, I brought Alala! to the Devizes Wargames Show last weekend. I ran four participation games of...

New edition of Comitatus in development.

I painted a small unit of Wargames Foundry Picts decades ago. My intention had been to gradually build a Pictish army for Comitatus but...

Confederate sympathies in Missouri have been gaining ground after several victories against the Federalists in recent months (see...

Seeking to unite the crowns of England and Scotland, King Henry XVIII of England has offered Prince Edward’s hand in marriage to the...

On 26-27 July Wargaming the Age of the Anglo-Saxons will return to Sutton Hoo. I have always been keen to find a way to introduce...

Artaxerxes King of Kings is calling up his men to fight off his brother Cyrus' rebellion. It helps that we have pressed several good men...

It is 31 July 1759. Maj Gen Wolfe has ordered an amphibious assault against the French defences between Beauport and Montmorency, 5kms...

When building a new army, a painter of wargames figures with any experience knows that you don’t start with the guards. Paint up a goodly...

Did Greek Hoplites ever fight naked? There are plenty of depictions on vases that suggest they did. Most people believe this to be an...

Our Sharp Practice campaign set in Missouri 1861 continues. Word has reached Col Sanders of the New Colchester Volunteers that his brave...

The Vikings win the day at Maldon

Orbis Poculum and Primus Flask are escorting a supply column to the Vicus of Deningtonum. The weather is fine, the road is in relatively...

The Battle of Maldon (991) opened with three Saxon champions holding the causeway against the Olaf's Viking champions. At the Society of...

The Saxons hold their own against the Viking onslaught at Maldon.

Painting tartan on a unit of Fraser's Highlanders circa 1759.

Painting up British troops for a mini-campaign set at the siege of Quebec 1759.