Irregular Wars Wargaming

Introducing my new SBH warband made up from miniatures from Splintered Light.These chaps stand about 20mm tall, so working on the assumption that hedgehogs etc aren't generally human-sized, they are more than suitable to go up against my other 28mm warbands. The  Heroes  of  Hedgerow The creatures of Hedgerow are not known for their martial traditions, but even the humblest of creatures may act like heroes... under the right circumstances. Points Personalities 96 33% Warriors 198 67% Total 294 100% Håkon the Hedgehog Points: 96 Q:3 C:3 Special rules: heavy armour, hero, leader Pyrrho the Polecat Points: 38 Q:3 C:2 Special rules: acrobat, free disengage, savage Jack Rabbi...

Watching my son shove the third piece of pasta in blue cheese sauce up his nose, I start to get the tingling feeling down the back of my neck - perhaps he is the Ayatollah of Gorgonzola...

I am not prone to writing virtual diary entries (blogs I believe they are called... crazy...), but I thought it was time for a combined arms account of my wargaming projects as they stand. 1) Irregular Wars: Conflict at the Worlds End - new edition on its way The revised edition of Irregular Wars is currently being formatted and proofed over at Vexillia Ltd. Keep an eye out in the next couple of weeks for a full release announcement and details of the changes. In short, these include a better system for scenario generation including Cattle raids and ambushes, and  24.3% more battle lists! 2) The 2012 Pendraken Painting Competition The judges have come out of their symposium, the votes have been tallied. The decisions are final, and I have been asked to leave the tribal... hold on a second. I've just hopped on a tangent. The results of the Pendraken painting competition have been announced with some very favourable results for yours truly ( HERE and...

Recently arrived from across the waters, I'm pleased to present two new SBH characters to round out two of my warbands (a fourth warband to replace the transfer of the Cheddar rats is in the post - insha'allah). The Battle Honours  page has been updated. Joining the boys from Ballybogside, Milik is a púca (phooka), a shape-shifting Irish goblin and trickster. Often appearing as a black horse, goat or rabbit, Milik's favoured form is a black cat. Her role in the militia is to scout ahead in the shadows and disrupt enemy movements by distracting them.  Q:2 C:1 distract, free disengage, stealth (58 points) To the north, a Will o' the Wisp has come to do the bidding of Sycorax, the tundra shaman. Will o' the wisps  are ethereal lights which traditionally drew travelers at night to their deaths across bogs and moorlands. I'm testing out drain special rule to reflec t the wisp's  incorporeal   nature. He can't knock an enemy back, but he ca...

A year ago, at the SBG DBA Historical comp, I managed (through little fault of my own) to be declared the Imperator (HERE)  and got my name on a plaque. This year I wasn't quite so lucky - or skilled -  and managed a measly two draws and three losses... This Imperator has certainly misplaced his mojo. Well done to Martin for bringing home the proverbial bacon and ensuring that none of the previous winners got their name on the plaque a second time. I lead Alexander's Macedonians to their Paionian doom.... My Early Samurai stall the Koreans to a draw. An Athenian expeditionary force is crushed in Thrace. A reprise in which I led the Paionian defence against Macedonia - and drew. Another Paionian/Macedonian reprise in which I managed to scrape defeat from the jaws of victory An unexpected discovery this time round is that most people have a secret fear of psiloi. Both playing a psiloi army and having also te...

That's right, we tested out three of the new scenarios of Irregular Wars: Conflict at the World's End last night - and I continue to be hampered by the author's curse. Three games, three losses. Not entirely discouraging though as we nutted out a few more little issues with the scenarios and had many laughs in the process. My thanks to Steve Webb at the Southern Battle Gamers (here)  for once again teaching me how to play the game. First up we played the 'punitive raid' scenario. The aim of the game is for the attacker to burn down as many of the opponents buildings as possible in the allocated time. As the Irish attacker, it was up to me to try to send the English home to their smelly queen. Unfortunately we didn't quite balance the game properly and the village was deployed during deployment rather than during terrain placement (a very silly oversight). As a result, the English naturally deployed in such a way as to block my approach...