Irregular Wars Wargaming

Well, somehow it transpired that I never bothered myself to get the chickenpox when I was a kid. Even when my friends or my brother had it, I was just never that 'into' contagious diseases and didn't catch it. Just over two weeks ago, my son got it. Now I am ridden with the pox and I'm not a happy camper; blisters everywhere, including one in one of my eyes.  On the upside, it looks like I'll be off work a little while and I've already managed to paint four more infantry units for my 6mm Seleukids project/obsession. I thought I'd just pop 'em all out on the table to see how it's getting on. My conclusions: I think I need more heavy cavalry. My cavalry already dominates the battlefield - and might be able to take on all my opponents' cavalry together with a fighting chance - but it just feels like I need more. It's not that I'm addicted to cavalry, I can stop any time I want to. This army roster shows the current state of pla...

As my prize from this year's Pendraken painting competition , I ordered some of the new 10mm Picts to flesh out my two Dux Bellorum armies (nether of whom are Picts I might add). Over the weekend I was able to slap a bit of paint on the new chaps and take a few grainy pictures. These are the Pictish cavalry. There are only two sculpts, which is quite a shame, as these are very versatile generic hairy cavalry types. The model with the spear/javelin is really quite splendid, although I'm not a huge fan of the horse for the other sculpt. Both figures wear trousers, long sleeved tunics and cloaks. The sword waving chap has a simple helmet and both obviously carry small-medium sized round shields. I've painted mine up to be riders - non-noble cavalary - for my Romano-British army. Here they are alongside a unit of noble riders (Pendraken Late Roman armoured cavalry). The Picts are quite a bit slighter than the Romans but this is more noticeable in the horses than ...

The play testing of Galleys & Galleons has gone very well and we are about to enter the proofing stage. I'm not particularly fond of tempting fate, but I can't see too many scenarios stopping the rules from being released on schedule - in time for International Talk Like a Pirate Day on September 19th. I thought I post a few more pictures to give an idea of some different fleet types possible in the game. So far I have shown off my pirate fleet , and my Dutch East India Company fleet . Powering out of port, propelled by the sweat of enslaved oarsmen, I'd like now to present my Barbary Corsairs. The three galleys are from Skytrex with Peter Pig deck crew; the xebec ( as some of you may have seen ) is a conversion based on a Peter Pig schooner. The Corsairs The Galley Sultana - 48 points Q3 C3 Special Rules: Galley, Intimidating, Swashbucklers, Yare The Galliot Emir - 50 points Q2 C2 Special Rules: Derring-do, Galley, Shallow draft, Swashbucklers, Yare The Galliot Pash...

In breaking news, the European Ministry of Defense had announced that it has seen fit to increase spending on the armed forces, bolstering each Imperial Response Group to include a full platoon of Special Forces Storm Troopers including a brace of Shadow Scouts, a Banshee Gun Ship, Goliath Mobile Artillery Unit and a Vixen Battle Walker. Costing 600 points, the Imperial Response Group is ready to tackle even the mightiest of Mighty Monsters .

Yoyo Skywalker has been at it again and has posted two great little AARs from recent games of Irregular Wars . I re-post a couple of photos from his games below, but for the full story and many more pictures, check out  his original blog post HERE . The first game saw the conquistadors ambushed by the Zapotecs. The second game saw the conquistadors making a punitive raid against a Zapotec village.