A few days ago I ran a test game for the Battle of Daras scenario with Comitatus rules in preparations for the game I will be hosting at the Society of Ancients Convention 16-18 October. The figures used are 15mm scale. In AD 530, Belisarius is leading his first major command to defend the city of Daras from the Persians. His poor quality Roman infantry are hunkered down in entrenchments hoping not to get hurt. Our game had a couple of bolt throwers in the entrenchments. It is unlikely that...

My old wargames table mat had become mouse and moth eaten so I decided to replace it.

A Roman column is ambushed by the Senones in 4th century BC.