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Please find below the Shield Wall rules. Certain armies contain units which can form a shield wall, which reflect the way in which these particular troops fought historically. This means that units forming a line of adjacent hexes can be said to be giving support to each other. Unit types which can ...

Two ‘masked’ warriors pitted their generalship skills against each other in accordance with the latest rules in these CV-19 impacted times. The Ottoman army was commanded by Chris and I had the Hungarian army. IMG_4887.JPG The Ottoman army was typical of the period with nine units of Sipahis and Aki...

Hi Julias, Ratty has already answered most of your questions - many thanks Ratty - things have been rather busy at Kallistra HQ recently! Q2 Artillery shooting at hard targets. This has been an area of discussion in our club games. We allow artillery shooting as normal(unlike small arms), when shoot...

Hi Tim, Play sheets for the ACW and AWI rules can be e-mailed to you on request. Dan has produced a Napoleonic adaptation of the rules which I'm sure he will OK us to send you a copy. As mentioned in the 'Battle chat' with Henry Hyde in December 2019. The intention was to release the Updated version...

For this second Skype game Sally teamed up with Alex in Canada to take on my War of the Roses Yorkist army with a Tudor army. The table size of 6ft x 4ft enabled quite sizeable armies of approx. 275 points to be pitted against each other with plenty of room to manoeuvre. We positioned the camera ang...

With the wargames club still suspended due to the CV 19 ‘lockdown’ it would seem the right time for Sally to step forward bravely and play a Hordes and Heroes game. It’s been quite a while since she’s played so it was only fair that she should choose the opposing armies. Sally chose High Elves, a fa...

Recent photos from the Ming project.

Thanks for the thumbs up! I researched some authentic Chinese symbols, but after painting the first few I decided that they didn't look right on the shields. I then started to just doodle various abstract patterns which would fit better onto the shield shapes. This use of 'artistic license' seemed t...

Over the lock-down weeks I have been painting a large Ming army. Below are some photos in various stages of the project. IMG_4205.JPG IMG_4207.JPG IMG_4208.JPG IMG_4169.JPG IMG_4171.JPG IMG_4175.JPG IMG_4576.JPG IMG_4579.JPG IMG_4580.JPG IMG_4583.JPG IMG_4585.JPG IMG_4588.JPG

This was our first Skype game of Hordes and Heroes with the two players 3250 miles apart! Alex based in Ottawa Canada, and myself based in Warsop in Nottinghamshire. With the board and miniatures in the UK it was vital that the Canadian player had a clear view of the table and the exact locations of...