Irregular Wars Wargaming

I've now finished up the first three Warp Miniatures kobolds that I got from BS5 Beyond Games . I absolutely love these little guys who fall somewhere between goblins and puppies (two of my favourite things)!  I want to give another shout out to BS5 Beyond Games. They're only a small outfit, but their service was exemplary and the quality of the 3D prints second to none. As I mentioned earlier, they've also created a special discount code for readers of the Irregular Wars blog. If you check out their site and find anything that takes your fancy, use the code IWFB20 at checkout to get 20% off your order.

Skrotrot the goblin king took his lads for another long overdue outing this week, facing off with the army of the Byzernian Empire - a combination of well equipped formed infantry and cavalry, supported by whisky-infused, axe-wielding weirdy beardies. The game was Fantastic Battles , the scale was 10mm, the stakes were high, and the tension was real. As the attacker, my goblins elected to come on from the side where a large water feature constricted the battlefield by about 1/3. This allowed me to line up the bulk of the forces with a secure right flank, retaining a captain with two units of wolf-riders and a battle wagon off-table on a flank-march around the left. Jim's Byzernians deployed with a solid centre - cataphract heavy cavalry flanked by shieldwall/long spear formed infantry (none of which looked appetising for my squishy irregular army. On the Byzernian flanks were wild irregulars and skirmishing cavalry, while the galloping flame-thrower war-machines filled the gap betw

“Canes dementes et Coloni in meridie sol exeunt” in the words of the popular ballad. It’s the hottest hot season in living memory. This episode of  Song of Shadows & Dust  from the Graeco-Roman outpost of Pattayavium follows three potentially-interrelated narratives of inhabitants doing stuff they might not normally do. People are going troppo.  Here’s an overall view of the part of town known as the Suburra, looking N from the Temple of Europa (E end) to the insula commonly called the White Elephant (W end). Here are buzzards-eye views of various parts of the Suburra. Coloured dice identify the locations of interest. Levi, the Jewish rabbi at Pattayavium, wants to stop the activities of a newly opened pork market near his residence (which is also the synagogue for his tiny congregation). The market is identified by White 1. Pattayavium’s red-light district is another scene of tension. A newly opened brothel is proving too popular for the longer-established premises. Something must

Work and other commitments have paused our Devilry Afoot campaign for a few weeks. While I've not had the chance to do much painting (I have just started my next Seleukid unit), I have been conceptualising my next project; more details on that in the future. Suffice to say, I need a few more minis! Looking for something different, I've been eyeing up the 3D printed kobold range from Warp Miniatures for a while. I love the style of the sculpts, and have been more than happy with the  Warp stuff I have painted in the past . Frustratingly I haven't yet joined the 3D-printer-owners'-society yet, so much of the of Warp Miniatures range was out of reach until I discovered BS5 Beyond Games .  I discovered they were licensed printers of some Warp ranges so asked them about the kobolds. They didn't do them a week ago, but they do now and Rowland and Alex were good enough to send me almost a dozen of the little beggars! I'm now the proud owner of a kobold magic-user and

Session 3 brought us through three more scenarios for our Devilry Afoot campaign. If you need to go back, Session 1 covered the  first three hunts , Session 2 covered hunts hunts four and five . For this session, the party of Clijsters, Fr Hans, Gruber, Dr Midnite, and Betty were joined by the Scottish gentleman, Jacobus Stuart (a secret flagellant), and his follower Hamish. Scenario 6) Of Magpies and Ravens When the pay chests disappeared, it didn’t really come as a surprise. To have had such wealth protected by such a small escort had practically damned them all from the start. What had come as a surprise was the savagery dealt to the half-company meant to guard the army’s wealth: hamstrung, and with their heads dashed in with rocks or cloven by poleaxes, the hapless bodies left drained of blood. Now, as the shock of the barbarity wears off, thoughts turn to the treasures rumoured to have been buried in the neighbouring moorland. For this scenario the party set out without Fr Hans,