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Tony has produced the stats for a number of different ancient armies for use with the Hordes and Heroes game system. Tuesdays’ club game pitted a Roman army against the Gauls using some of Tony’s extensive 6mm miniature collection. IMG_2056.JPG IMG_2053.JPG The terrain layout was reasonably favourab...

A couple of years back I made some experimental 'Mars' type Hexon boards for a scifi project. They are stored in the unit somewhere! I will seek them out and post some photos.

A brief historical account of the Battle of Varna - Ottoman Empire v Christian Papal army On the 9th of November 1444 a large Ottoman army of 50 to 60 000 under the command of Murad II advanced towards Varna and in doing so effectively trapped the Papal army, which had a combined strength of 20 to ...

After the clobbering that the Saxons had received two weeks earlier we decided to pitch these large 250 point armies against each other in a re-match. Tim, Mark and I were in charge of the Saxons and Dave and Tony the Normans. Although the Saxons had 6 more units and an extra general, eleven of thes...

For this encounter Steve had made some slight revisions to his rule system which seemed to speed up play and I feel, further improved the flow and feel of the game. Dave and Tony were the admirals in charge of the British fleet and Chris and I the Spanish. We divided the Spanish fleet into mixed squ...

Norman Army Armoured cavalry 4 units Unarmoured cavalry 5 units Armoured spearmen 3 units Unarmoured spearmen 4 units Norman Archers 4 units Generals 4 Total 247 points Saxon army Housecarls 4 units Select Fyrd 7 units Greater Fyrd 11 units Archers 4 units Generals 5 Total 249 points This was a lar...

Hi Norm, Steve has use a sponge and white model paint thinned with water to create the sea effect on the blue hex boards. Since this battle report he has done more work on the boards and they look even more impressive. I will post a report on the most recent game with plenty of photos of the new boa...

For this 250 points per side War of The Roses encounter, the Yorkist army was entirely made up of retinue troops and the Lancaster army was more numerous but cheaper troop types. The Yorkists had 3 units of mounted men-at-arms, the Lancastrians 2. The Yorkists also had 2 more units of retinue longbo...

This encounter pitted the British fleet of 8 ships against a Spanish fleet of 8 ships, both fleets divided into 2 squadrons of 4 ships. This was the second club game using a set of naval rules developed by Steve. IMG_1548.JPG IMG_1546.JPG This was my first game using these rules and it was a pleasur...

The last time the Koreans hit the table in a club game was against a War of The Roses Yorkist army with plenty of mounted men-at-arms. However, the terrain was much more open and Tony used the Korean cavalry to shoot to death the Yorkist cavalry before dealing with the infantry. In this game by losi...