Irregular Wars Wargaming

It is the third decade of the 17th century. While the Spain of His Most Catholic Majesty, Philip IV, squanders its riches in fruitless wars against heretics and rebels in Europe, her possessions in the New World are increasingly under threat of sea-borne depredations from various piratical nations. Into this New World of sweat, blood and God enters the king's royal agent, Don Diego Diablo del Mar, sent to bring order to the defences of the colonies and lead the king's subjects to righteous victory. Our hero has word of the approach of a flotilla of Calvanist Hollanders cruising along the Miskito Coast, searching for trading partners among the local savages and seeking to undermine the commercial hegemony created by the Grace of God and held by good king Philip. It is about time that somebody called out the militia... The following post is design as an example of the recruitment process for Irregular Wars: Conflict at the World's End . It will out...

Just a quick update to show off a little 28mm Eureka Amazon that I picked up to round off my Wardens of Olympos warband for SBH . She has been painted up for some time, but it is only today that I managed to take photos of her, and a bunch of other stuff for posts in the very near future. She survived her first battle last month. Bless her. As always, she and her gagng can be followed over at the battle honours page HERE . Oh, also I'd like to take the opportunity to wish all readers a festive holiday season and a fruitful New Year!

About a month or so ago, a couple of my Antipodean comrades-in-miniature-arms did a little playtesting of the Hoplite lists for Irregular Wars: Hoplite Ascendancy , the Classical Greek adaptation of my Renaissance rules. I have been meaning to post the results since then but have been exhausted coming in out of the frozen mud in the evenings and haven't quite managed to post before now. Hypothermia is seriously exhausting.... Photos re-posted courtesy of the  Old Gnome . It was a classic match up between Michael's Athenians and Steve's Spartans. Michael set up terrain, placing two large woods a large marsh and a large area of rough going.  The intial setup. Athens vs Sparta, with Athenians in the foreground. Armies advance to do battle. Some more maneuvering. Note that one of the Athenian Hoplite units decided to go out of control and head east..  Battle is joined, with the Spartan cavalry trying to out flank the Athenians. Th...

Chapter 1,Sorviodunum Read stranger, the apocryphal words of Saint Neot the Lesser, servant of God and compiler of this, the Annals of the Relic of Saint Pius. It is a tale of Britons and Saxons, of Irish pirates and valiant knights. A song of holy relics and vile heathens, of the bravest of deeds and the most villainous of treacheries. I should know, for I was there... Flavius Constans, a man who fancied himself descended from a line of Roman Emperors, stared contemptuously down the slopes of Sorviodunum at the rabble gathering below. Sure, the combined Hiberno-Saxon host had driven him out of Venta of the Belgae– a centre his opponents were now calling Venta-chester, as if they thought he would let them stay. Sure, the barbarous hoards had forced him to seek shelter within the crumbling defences of Sorvidunum – but he had not gone down without a fight. Now, only two enemy warbands remained in any condition to continue the fight: Æthelwulf's band of Angles and a boat-lo...