Irregular Wars Wargaming

And that's a wrap on 2024! It's been a busy and productive year for Irregular Wars Wargaming, and for hobbying in general. Devilry Afoot was launched back in the summer and word seems to be spreading as the game continues to pick up more and more players. The rules have consistantly been in the top 20 sellers on Wargame Vault since release, and has now reached Electrum Best Seller status (in the top 6.25% of sellers). I was gifted the headless horseman above (a Dragon Trappers Lodge 3D sculpt) by JB, and he might just hint at the first free expansion that will be coming for Devilry Afoot . Nothing too grand, just another monster profile with one or two new scenarios that will be made available to download through the Facebook group and slipped into the download pack on Wargame Vault. If that is popular there may well be more on the cards... Andrew and I completed out most ambitious project to date with the Seleukid army for Magnesia (190 BC), built to be compatible with severa...

Nigg, the little questing knight , has been joined by some fellow bog goblins to support the wyvern, Clachtoll, in whatever mischief he's about.  The new goblins - all on foot - are lovely little 3D sculpts from Highlands Miniatures. As someone with mild-middling severity red-green colour blindness, it was both a challenge and a bit of fun painting up a party whose palette is almost entirely reddy browns and different greens. Dingwall the shaman is the only named character of the group. This little seer is pretty hardcore, having stappled a horn or tusk to his right shoulder, and wearing a prosthetic chin... The wee crystal hanging from his staff is the first time I have attempted a yellow gem. It, sort of, worked and could be a topaz perhaps, or maybe amber? The goo bubbling in the little cauldron and spilt all over the nearby mushrooms is a lovely little feature. These two minions have wicked little shortbows and frogs. I love the frogs. In-game they will be treated as having poi...

I've been telling myself for sometime that I needed to do a video showcase of some of my Fantastic Battles armies. However, as I may have mentioned before, I am confident in neither my production nor editing skills (it shows!) so it has taken a while to work up to pulling something together. This may be a one off, or the first of several. We'll have to see... Meanwhile, this has taken its mental toll, and it is most definately hygge time, so I am away.  Wishing everyone a very happy Christmas and New Year!

I've now added two more jesters from Midlam Miniatures to the Company of Fools party for F antastic Scuffles - the halfling fool and the puppet-construct. Unlike the other parties I've built for testing FS to date which are all 3D printed, the Fools are all metal. It's something lovely about having that weightiness to the miniatures, and the scaling is much more predictable! Here we have six figures from four different manufacturers and they all look like one happy conclave.  On the left we have Scaramouch, the halfling fool, and next to him on the right, Pinocchio the living puppet. There was much debate in the house as to whether the puppet would have a gem face, or a wooden face. Generally it was agreed that a featureless wooden face was creepier, and so that's what I attempted.

*** These rule amendments to Dan Mersey's Dux Bellorum were  penned and playtested by Lee Cadieux and I back in 2019. We sought and recieved Dan's blessings to have them published in a magazine, and then the world went a bit mad and these were never submitted. Since then I have created Fantastic Battles which, for me, deals with hoplite warfare very well. However, having recently been contacted by somebody looking for a copy of this Classical mod for DB , I've decided to dust them off and to post them here. *** Adapting Dux Bellorum for Ancients (part 2): Hoplomachia Lee Cadieux and Nic Wright   Back in WSS Issue 70 (2014), the late Allen E. Curtis wrote a piece about adapting Dan Mersey’s Dux Bellorum for ancient battles. Curtis’ article came out hot on the heels of the release of Dux Bellorum ( DB ), the first of Osprey Wargaming’s blue title series. A surprising number of ancient wargames have been published between then and now – not least by Osprey Wargaming itse...