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These equal point armies were constructed with large contingents of heavy cavalry; the Teutonic order had 5 units of ‘A’ class Teutonic knights plus 3 units of mounted crossbow, and the French 8 heavy cavalry and 6 units of mounted sergeants. Both armies also had sizeable contingents of infantry to ...

We had a club meeting at the beginning of the club night, so I brought one of the 2 games from the previous week used for ‘training’ games. The meeting was concluded in little over 30 minutes and so, 4 of us decided to quickly spread the terrain and pitted 2 identical armies against each other; Tony...

Hi, Hordes & Heroes ancients was a response to persistent pressure from customers and in many ways is the natural progression back in time from the medieval ranges. The response to the initial release of 30 blisters -15 Imperial Roman and 15 Celts, has been very positive and I've had to schedule in ...

Hi, You will have to check the 'Gaugemaster' site, who are the British distributer for Noch, to see if the flock is avaible in different forms eg. sheets. We just use and sell the packs of fibres. Although we don't stock 'snow flock' it can be obtained fro a range of manufactures including Woodland ...

Hi, Yes the Hexon range of boards and terrain features is all flocked using Noch 50210 'Spring Meadow' which is easily obtainable from ourselves as well as a good number of hobby/modelling shops and on-line retailers. I use this flock for my figure bases on top of 'Wilko' dark wood filler. We don't ...

The Ottoman army in this game consisted of ‘B’ class Jannisary infantry and three units of elite ‘A’ Quapakulu guard cavalry, plus the ubiquitous Akinci and Sipahis cavalry. The Korean army had 5 light and 6 heavy ‘B’ class cavalry plus ‘C’ class infantry spearmen and handgunners. Both armies had 5 ...

This game pitted 2 WOTR armies with very different compositions against each other. The Yorkist army contained 8 units of mounted men at arms against the Tudor 5, and had 12 units of retinue longbow against the Tudor 8. However, to balance the points the Tudor army had 2 units of dismounted men-at-a...

This game pitted a Yorkist army which included 9 units of mounted men-at-arms, 12 units of longbow and 4 of billmen, against a Korean army with 6 units of heavy and 5 units of light cavalry, all bow armed, plus supporting spearmen, handgunners and archers. Both armies had 4 generals. IMG_3920.JPG Th...

In this scenario we wanted to create a cavalry on cavalry encounter in reference to the first part of the battle of Mohi 1241, and other smaller Mongol v Hungarian encounters which took place on the central Hungarian plane. To more accurately represent the open terrain on the Hexon layout, Andre, ou...

In this scenario the army compositions were the same as the previous game, but the terrain layout was very different. A non-playing club member presented the 4 players with a layout dominated by central woodland areas. Chris and I had command of the Normans and Dave and Tony the Saxons. IMG_3507.JPG...