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Category Archives: Impetus / Basic Impetus
NOT re-inventing the wheel
As I’m sure you are aware by now, the coming weeks will see a veritable horde of new rules for gaming Ancients descending upon the wargames community (I’m aware of at least 4 sets due out between now and summer) One … Continue reading
One reason to love Impetus
For a while now, Impetus & Basic Impetus have been my Ancient Wargaming rules of choice, if I haven’t been using C&C: Ancients. If you are wondering about some of the advantages of Impetus, then check out this website. This … Continue reading
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Meeples & Miniatures Podcast – Episode 68
Download Episode 68 Welcome to Episode 68 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast. In this show I take a look at the Ancient Warfare 2010 Special, Extra Impetus 3 and delve deep into the pages of one of the latest … Continue reading
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Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 55
Download Episode 55 Welcome to Episode 55 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast. In this show, I am once again joined by Rich Jones, and we discuss various games during our chat together. The main focus of the show are … Continue reading
SOA Battle Day 2010 – Of Time, Space…and Practicallity
As I’ve put together the two armies for Zama, there is one thing that I can’t get away from – this battle is potentially big, really big. We are looking at 2700+ Infantry, 200+ Cavalry and 18 Elephants – Even … Continue reading
SOA Battle Day 2010 – The Carthaginians
So, having dealt with the Romans, it’s time to deal with Hannibal’s army at Carthage. As with the Romans, the exact number of Hannibal’s troops at the battle is open to some speculation, but I’m pretty happy to go with … Continue reading
SOA Battle Day 2010 – The Roman Forces
So, time to think about how many figures I need for this game of Zama for next year. This may seem strange, but since I’m recently new to massed battle games (being a skirmish game junkie) I’ve never actually put … Continue reading
SOA Battle Day 2010 – Starting early
I’ve recently recorded an interview with Richard Lockwood of the Society of Ancients (soon to be heard on the podcast feed) and as part of that we chat about the SOA Battle Day. Battle Day 2010, unusually, has already been … Continue reading
6mm Basing for Impetus
Several people have been asking me what basing convention I am intending to use for 6mm figures with the Impetus set of rules. First of all, I am going to use the ‘standard’ Polemos basing convention of 60mm x 30mm (it … Continue reading
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6mm Ancients
6mm Roman Army I’ve been playing the ‘Basic Impetus’ and ‘Impetus’ Ancients rulesets for several weeks now with borrowed 15mm armies, but I’ve decided to bite the bullet and start collecting new ancients armies for the game. Several months ago, … Continue reading
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Impetus has arrived…
My copy of ‘Impetus‘ arrived from Italy earlier this week – why is it that it’s actually cheaper to buy this from Italy and get it shipped to the UK, rather than buying it via mail order in this country? … Continue reading
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Are Gamers like Magpies?
Ever since Hammerhead in February, I have been planning on buying a Command Horizon army from Baccus at the Partizan wargames show in May. …that was until this week… Over the last couple of weeks a few of us at … Continue reading
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