Irregular Wars Wargaming

Over at the Lead Legionaries blog , Mike Demana has posted a nice little review of their first encounter with Blood Sweat and Cheers. Worth a look it you're passing through . 👍 

Andrew, Joel and Jim were kind enough to help me give Four Against Ragnarok  ( 4AR ) a run through for the first time. 4AR is a sister game (more like a half-sister, or a cousin) of my  Four Against the Titans , and will sit as a stand-alone game in Ganesha Games' Four Against Darkness series.   As can probably be guessed from the title, 4AR is a Norse-themed mythological adventure, where the player/s take on the roll of four characters (at a time) trying to make a name for themselves in a North Atlantic world filled with ill-begotten monsters and legendary creatures. The party moves around a map, exploring regions and completing quests. However, the ultimate aim is to have your characters become famous and powerful, and then die in glorious battle. The key is to die famous in the hope that the character will be taken to Valhalla. Once you have four dead heroes feasting Valhalla, the end game begins and the party of four heroically dead characters then set off to help

A lot, but not all, of our gaming gets fully posted on here. Here are a few additional photos to give a flavour of what we've been up to over the summer so far. Lee and I had a go with our 1/600 scale ancient war galleys - my assorted vessels (quadreme, trihemiolia, and two hemioliai) were all from Xyston, while his triereme squadron from Skytrex mixed well on the same table. Lee quickly managed to sink my trihemiolia and capture a hemiolia, but then my remaining galleys pulled their proverbial finger out and got to work, sinking all three of his trieremes. Brett, Lee and I played a three way treasure island game of Galleys & Galleons . Lee was running his own squadron for the first time, so he had a number/points advantage, but he didn't need it. My two Dutch cromsters took the fight to everyone and performed remarkably well, but Lee managed to find the only treasure on the archipelago and, although I had him grappled and on the back foot in a boarding action, ma

Continuing on with my new medieval collection for outlaw-ish deeds of daring, here are the rest of my current wolfsheads: Well-fed friar (AKA Friar Tuck), Trent Miniatures Alan-a-Dale (note the lute strapped to his back), Midlam Miniatures Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, recently returned from Crusade (or Hereward the Wake, recently returned from Flanders), Gripping Beast Miniatures with a shield swap Generic Norseman, probably supporting Hereward the Wake...? Wargames Foundry with added bow and scratch-built arrow  Next...? On with some villains!

As rule writing gets into full swing for my forthcoming game of stealth and derring-do, the collection of medieval outlaws has likewise begun. The core game mechanics are derived from my pre-historic hunting game, Palaeo Diet: Eat or be Eaten , but there will be more nuance and a significant amount of tweaking to better reflect the area of awareness exerted by non-player villains. The working title is Shadow of Sherwood ... The first of my new medieval collection are below: Robin Hood, Conquest Games Little John, Conquest Games Will Scarlet, Conquest Games Much the Millar's Son, Conquest Games Generic noblewoman (AKA Marian), Trent Miniatures