Irregular Wars Wargaming

Ratatosk, or Ratatoskr, was the mischievous squirrel that lived on Yggdrasil (the World-Tree) and spent his time running up and  down its trunk between the eagle at the top, and Nidhug the dragon at its base, to tell them each the latest insult that each had uttered against the other. I took a notion. I am apparently now going to put together a Norse force for Of Gods and Mortals . I thought the following might reflect how he would play as a legend: Ratatosk Q3, C2 Forester, Illusions, Long Move, Stealth Here he is with a sample of my existing Norse force to give a sense of scale: troll   f rom Copplestone Castings, dvergar dwarf from Macrocosm Miniatures. For the most part, this wee chap is one of the sabre-toothed squirrel rats produced for the (now defunct?) Flytrap Factory kickstarter. The head was my attempt to sculpt something out of green-stuff that vaguely resembled a red squirrel. It may have worked, I'm still not sure. The shield is a spare from a...

I finally got around to converting my old Glorantha not-Herakles to give him a club rather than a spear. It's not exactly elegant, but neither is a club. I'm happy enough with that result.

It would appear my birthday present from my brother has just arrived. That's a little exciting...

Delighted with what the postman brought me today. Hardcopy Fireside Tales , fresh from Lulu , but also available from Amazon .

Sneaking in one last game before a travel induced break, we agreed to get our French and Indian Wars chaps out on the table for a spot of Sharp Practice 2 .  Unfortunately, due to it being one of those  weeks, the above photo was as far as we got with that game as the French and their allies were left at home and failed to arrive at the table. I'm going to count that as a British win... Instead, we decided to have another game of Lord and Lands  - The Hearthshire halfling militia taking on the night elf - skeletal alliance known as the League of Super Evil. Initial deployment shown above: night elves at the top, halflings at the bottom. Both armies were 1,200 points, each had a commander, a captain and a magic user. The halfling army was larger, but included six skirmishing units which meant it's breakpoint was 6. The smaller evil army had a breakpoint of 7. The opening rounds saw the elves conducting wide sweeping maneuvers to left and right, while the halfli...

To paraphrase Helmuth von Moltke, "No plan survives contact with the enemy Andrea Sfiligoi." I had some splendid plans for my hobby time over the last few months, in a whole smatter of different scales. All have been stalled as I work away on a really nice little project for Ganesha Games. As a result, I have been posting much less than usual, as I've had much less to show off. There are the 15mm Prussians for my c.1806 force for Sharp Practice 2 . I have yet another group of jäger lined up, and a group of engineers led by an officer. Then there are my lovely, lovely, new ships; a handful of 1/600 ancient vessels which will be used for Galleys & Galleons , but for which I have been messing around with a few other ideas to do a much more detailed set of ancient naval rules. The concept is to run one galley per player and have a sort of galley-ballet. More of that anon. There are also 6mm horse archers lined up that I need to be able to field Kushan, Kommagen...