Irregular Wars Wargaming

Making up for lost time, we've just returned from a family trip to Copenhagen - a wonderful and gorgeous city, although not over-easy on the wallet. I plumb forgot to bring Four Against Raganök with me for a promo shot, but it was ever in our hearts... I can't say enough positive things about the city in general, but I wanted to flag up the National Museum to anyone who happens to pass through as a brilliant resource and source of inspiration for wargaming any number of theatres. We spent more than four hours there, and still didn't get to the Iron Age, High-Late Medieval or Modern galleries. The images below are just a taster of what's on show really. Mycenaean weaponry. The detailing on that gold pommel doesn't really show up, but I was impressed! Sub-Saharan African shields and swords from the Ethnographic collection. Mesolithic paddle, bow, and axeheads. Neolithic casualty (bone-tipped arrow through the nose), and Late Neolithic flint dagger. Bronze Age 'Egt...

Photo courtesy Andrea Sfiligoi With social distancing and self isolation becoming the new normal, it is worth remembering that there are a number of great games out there written specifically for solo gaming.  Some of them were even written by me!😉 Four Against the Titans , and Four Against Ragnarök are game books for sandbox adventures in worlds inspired by Greek and Norse mythology. Based on the highly acclaimed Four Against Darkness series of RPG-lite dungeon-delving adventures by Andrea Sfiligoi, they are standalone solitaire or co-operative pen-and-paper games for 1 to 4 players. You don’t need any other books. No GM is needed! All you need is a pencil, two regular dice, the book, and the luck of the gods! For a more traditional high fantasy dungeon-delving experience, you shouldn't look past Andrea's   Four Against Darkness . Now with 20+ expansions (and counting), 4AD has something to offer everyone. If you prefer your solo games to have miniatu...

Woohoo! Hard cover copies of Four Against  Ragnarök arrived in this morning's post. Lovely production quality from Lulu if I do say so. 

The monstrous children of Loki, the Mischief-Maker, strain against their bonds, and writhe and twist and plot to end the rule of the gods. Ragnarök, the destruction of the gods and all of the Nine Realms is coming. It is merely a question of when, and for how long it can be held off. Based on the highly acclaimed  Four Against Darkness  series of RPG-lite dungeon delving adventures by Andrea Sfiligoi, this is a standalone solitaire or co-operative pen-and-paper game for 1 to 4 players. You don’t need any other books. No GM is needed! All you need is a pencil, two regular dice, this book, and the luck of the gods! Available now, just in time for Yule and the festive season! You can find it at Lulu in book form as a  hardback  or  softback , or as a  digital pdf download . It is also available as a pdf direct from  Ganesha Games , or on the Ganesha  Gumroad  store. Soon to be available on Wargames Vault and Amazon too! ...

Andrew, Joel and Jim were kind enough to help me give Four Against Ragnarok  ( 4AR ) a run through for the first time. 4AR is a sister game (more like a half-sister, or a cousin) of my  Four Against the Titans , and will sit as a stand-alone game in Ganesha Games' Four Against Darkness series.   As can probably be guessed from the title, 4AR is a Norse-themed mythological adventure, where the player/s take on the roll of four characters (at a time) trying to make a name for themselves in a North Atlantic world filled with ill-begotten monsters and legendary creatures. The party moves around a map, exploring regions and completing quests. However, the ultimate aim is to have your characters become famous and powerful, and then die in glorious battle. The key is to die famous in the hope that the character will be taken to Valhalla. Once you have four dead heroes feasting Valhalla, the end game begins and the party of four heroically dead characters then ...