Irregular Wars Wargaming

Antiochos VIII Grypos (Hooknose) 125-96 BC As most DBA players would be aware, evolving lists have been posted and made available through Fanaticus ( HERE somewhere ) for some time now. Back in July, I caught on to this and had a look at the Seleukid list (II/19) to see what changes had occurred and was relatively pleased with some things, rather concerned by others. I shot off the following email to Sue Laflin-Barker   at WRG: Dear Sue, Apologies for not being in touch sooner. I have been snowed under with work (and fatherhood) over the last six months and have only just seen the suggested DBA 3.0 army lists. I have a couple of comments or suggestions for the Seleukid lists (II/19) that I feel qualified to make. i) While I'm glad to see the Seleukid list finally being continued dow to the date of Pompey's dissolution of the Sleukid kingdom, the event happened in 64 BC, not 69 BC. ii) Sekunda's volume on the Seleukid army is very flawed and not regarded very highly am...

I have recently started work on a new battle of Colonial Spanish (using the less vicious post-1617 list) to compliment my Hollanders ( HERE and HERE ) and Caribbean Indians ( HERE ). Most of my original figures who were flagged as Spanish have since been absorbed into other lists. Finding time to paint at the moment is difficult so the completion date for these little chaps is estimated at 'some time in the future'.  As a starter army, His Most Catholic Majesty's man in the New World (Don Diego Diablo del Mar), will include the two compulsory company types: d2 Herreruelos  2 Militia pike I've then gone with five of the possible options the provide a limited amount of adaptability: d3 Militia shot d3 Armed mobs* 1 War-dogs* d3 Indian mercenaries 1 Saker* * completed The scale is 15mm using a greater variety of brands than I'm usually prone to - a mix of Grumpy, Essex, Museum and Peter Pig. The armed colonists, rallying to defend their settlements...

An after action report of Irregular Wars: Conflict at the World's End : It was all looking so well for the Hollander lord, Colonel Clijsters. En-route to the East Indies, he brought his small flotilla across to the Caribbean to stock up on fresh perishables, tobacco and the odd golden trinket which may or may not have held significance to the hapless indigenes.  Landing a small expeditionary force of a group of merchant adventurers,  two companies of trained shot, a company of mercenary halberdiers, two batteries of ship's guns and a personal retinue of ruijters, Clijsters established a beachhead on a small hillock within cannon shot of the shore. Before he had a chance to send out scouts to make contact with the poxy natives, he started to feel like he was being watched... "There aren't many of them sir - this might be a fore gone conclusion."  As the engagement opened, only three companies of Caribbean natives were visible to the Hollanders...

The Royal English battle arrayed Here are a few shots of the main infantry forces for the Royal English - the English mounted and longbowmen were previously previewed  HERE . All figures are Essex, a mixed selection from their 15mm 16th century and ECW ranges. I added the ECW figures to a) provide a bit more variety as far as poses are concerned and b) to try to give them a very late 16th centruy (O'Neill's rebellion-ish period) look. The colour concept was to have the demi-lancers, border horse, billmen, longbowmen and artillery in a red and green (Tudor) livery, while the pike militia and plantation militia are in greys, browns and blue. I think they came up alright. The Queen's billmen Saker Militia from the English plantations Finally, here are a few 15mm Irregular sheep and lambs. Irregular's range of animals is quite extensive. I used their goats for my DBA Paionian camp and I liked the figures very much. Unfortunately their she...

In order to use my Paionian figures < here > in battle against my beloved late Seleukids, I picked up and painted three extra elements that will allow me to convert the bulk of the army into a mercenary army in the service of Pergamon - DBA v.2.2 list II/34. The Pergamene army list allows 1x3Kn (Gen), 1x2LH, 1x3CV, 6x4Ax or 6x2Ps, 2x2Ps, 1x4Wb or 4 Ax. By keeping 1x2LH and 8x2Ps of my Paionians, I only had to paint up 1 elemnt each of Kn, Cv and Wb. Pergamene reinforcements The knight general Galatian cavalry Galatian warband The original Paionian host

I've had a couple of days off from work and have managed to take a few more photos of my various completed projects. The first up is my Paionian army for DBA.  The Paionians (or Paeonians if your a dirty Romanist) were a tribal kingdom in the middle Balkans, wedged between the Macedonians, Illyrians, Thracians and Dardanians - (very) roughly the area of the modern FYROM. The capital of the kingdom (and later Macedonian province) was Bylazora, a site excavated by an American team for the last few years --->  see here DBA v.2.2 dates the Paionians between 512 and 284 BC, covering the period from the first Persian conquests of the eastern Paionians until Lysimachos' attempted conquests. The list doesn't cover the later period of the kingdom for a reason only  the good people at WRG could explain. The army list allows 1x2LH or 3Ax (Gen), 1x2LH, 8x2Ps or 3Ax, 2x2Ps. I went for the maximum light horse/psiloi option when painting up my army. I have the figu...