Irregular Wars Wargaming

Sing, goddess, of the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus, the accursed anger which brought uncounted anguish on the Achaeans and hurled down to Hades many mighty souls of heroes, making their bodies the prey to dogs and the birds’ feasting … Homer, The Iliad 1.1-4 The final - and arguably most famous - contingent that I'll be painting up before the release of Ilium: A Game of Heroes hails from Phthia in southern Thessaly. Led by Achilles, the only son of King Peleus, here are the Myrmidons. All are splendid 28mm sculpts from Lucid Eye Miniatures. The sculpt chosen to be Achilles is actually one of the regular Myrmidons from the Myrmidon 2 pack from Lucid Eye. However, all the Lucid Eye models are sculpted to the same high quality and he utilises the fancier armour and kilt body that was originally sculpted to be Achilles anyway, but with what I felt to be a more commanding presence. I used the figure named as Achilles (on the left) to be my Patroklos. He too has fancy armour, and h...

At the start of the month we braved the July heat to return to Greece - this time, to explore some of the sites across (and around) the plain of Argos. The region is packed full of amazing archaeological sites and some lovely smaller museums. Here are a few of the sites and sights that we visited that could be inspiring for wargamers/builders of model Bronze Age walls... Bronze Age/Late Helladic sites in the area were the focus of our trip and really it was a bit of a study of cyclopaean architecture. There are four very impressive Mycenaean citadels overlooking the Argive plain. Mycene to the north, Midea to the east, Tiryns to the south, and Argos to the west. From book 2 of the Iliad we know that Agamemnon was supposed to have ruled at Mycenae (and further north), while Argos and Tiryns were ruled by Diomedes. Midea is not mentioned in the Iliad , but feels more at home with Argos and Tiryns. Mycenae Lion Gate and cyclopaean walls. Modern guardian of the gate. Grave Circle A, where...