Irregular Wars Wargaming

A little stop motion video of a simple mammoth hunt - with angry wild piggies for starter. In other news, check out the Wargaming in Sverigie blog to see a Palaeo Diet Viking bear hunt.

I recently gave in to a long time whim and bought a pack of guinea peegs from Bad Squiddo Games. They used to be sold in resin, but the price was always a little bit prohibitive. Now they are cast in lead, are therefore cheaper, and 30% of the price is donated to the charity Glynneath Guinea Pig Rescue. How could I say no! Anyway, I have painted up half the pack as marmots for Palaeo Diet: Eat or be Eaten . I love my critters but, as shown in the scale photo above, poor Rarr can never work out how to get close enough to swing his axe at them.

A one shot update to show that my Angles for Dux Bellorum  are almost done. My warlord's companions, a single noble warrior warband, and six common warrior warbands. At 28 points, these beardy gents are ready to raid and pillage, but I'd still like to find them some skirmishers...

August is shaping up to be a pretty manic month with work, but last weekend I spent an evening playing games. But not wargames... We played Tiny Epic Quest from Gamelyn Games, and The Cousins' War from Surprised Stare Games. I had played Tiny Epic Kingdoms a couple of times previously and rather enjoyed it. Tiny Epic Quest was also enjoyable, but perhaps not so much. The abstract nature of the game system works really nicely when played at a kingdom level, but I found some aspects of the system didn't work quite so well at the level of individual adventurers. Regardless, a fun game and with some great wee components. Earlier in the evening, we played three games of The Cousins' War . TCW was only released in June this year, and I hadn't heard a thing about it (not being much of a board game player) until Thomas Brandstetter (AKA Frank Shandy) posted about it HERE . I have since also discovered a video review on Board Game Geek which is worth a look.  I don...

Image borrowed from the interweb... Dan Mersey, author of Dux Bellorum and Song of Arthur and Merlin among many other fine games and books has posted an interesting article on early Medieval warfare and the poetry of the 6th century. Well worth having a look if you have even a passing interest in the period. http://merseybooks.blogspot.co.uk/2017/08/y-gododdin-poetry-and-warfare-in-sixth.html

A very quick (and delighted) note to say that Palaeo Diet: Eat or be Eaten is available now as a pdf direct from Ganesha Games. A hard copy will be available in the coming weeks. Check it out here ---> http://www.ganeshagames.net/product_info.php?cPath=1_59&products_id=328&osCsid=35svq6v12mkl49hvf76kf3tpq6 Palaeo Diet: Eat or be Eaten is a stand-alone set of gaming rules for recreating prehistoric animal hunts on your table top. The game models a time when humans were not yet in control of the world around them, when the landscape could just as easily give succour to a struggling tribe, as it could cripple a thriving people. Designed with solo and multiplayer games in mind, players take on the role of the hunting party while an integral response mechanism means that beasts react in different ways in different situations. In an unforgiving world, the choice is simple - either eat, or be eaten. Full color PDF, 58 pages, $10

Captain Concordia slid her mobile scanner back into its pouch on her belt. She nodded to her men and motioned over to the far side of the empty plaza before them. Quietly, almost under her breath, she outlined her plan over the internal comms system.  The reports that had come in from the hinterland had all hinted at a sand prowler. Vicious, destructive beasts that could clean out a village the size of this one in a single evening. Shadow scouts had pinpointed its location, and now it was down to Concordia and her specialists to flush it out, and take it down.  As long as the beast is killed, the mission will be a success. If it escapes or kills Concordia and her men, it will be a failure. From left to right: Trigger, armed with a sniper rifle (a bow, but with the Hunter trait allowing a reroll of one shot per turn); Concordia carrying a powerful blaster pistol (a spear, as well as the Thinker trait allowing her to send commands to her men); Sparky the bot hand...

I recently picked up this Xyston 15mm pack which is supposed to represent the diadoch Antigonos Monophthalmos (One-Eye). Antigonos had been left as the satrap of Phrygia as Alexander continued east, and was one of the major players in the power vacuum left by Alexander's death. He obviously had lost an eye somewhere along the way, but I don't recall any specific reference to him being carried into battle on a litter - he died at the battle of Ipsos (301 BC) leading his phalanx on foot at the age of 81. Regardless, the model is great and I couldn't pass up the opportunity of having it feature in the streets of Antiocheia Mikros. In Song of Shadows and Dust , I would give him the following profile: Faction leader in litter (52 points) Q3 C3; Clumsy, Group Fighter, Leader, Short Move As I was paying postage anyway, I also picked up some Jewish archers to be generic Jews or Arabs with bows, and some Greek hamippoi as Greeks with swords. As a quick and badly framed...

Elysium Trading Corporation TM is proud to unveil the latest step in economic security. The Firefly Infiltrator combines powerful - jump jet augmented - legs, with the agility of much smaller walkers to create this state of the art P2 frame. When you have a trade alliance to negotiate, or a hostile takeover that turns heated, you need a walker that can get in where the big boys can't. You need the Firefly Infiltrator. Scale photo comparing a standard airborne infantry section, light artillery, the P2 Firefly Infiltrator, and the P3 IRN Mech.