Society of Ancients Battle Day 2012
Saturday 31st March 2012 is the ninth annual Society of Ancients Battle Day. This years sees a refight of the battle of Plataea from 479 BC – ‘The day the Greeks [...]
March 2012
Meeples & Miniatures Podcast news
I recorded the main content for Episode 85 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast on Monday night – a three-way show with guests Rich Jones and Mike Hobbs. As [...]
Samurai Battles? News of a new C&C game from Zvezda
Boardgamegeek are carrying news of a new game by Zvezda in their Art of Tactic series, the first of which was Barbarossa 1941. This new game will have a Samurai theme, and [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 84
Download Episode 84 Welcome to Episode 84 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this show, I look back at the new releases and news from around the wargaming world that [...]
Saga ‘Northern Fury’ release date annouced
Gripping Beast have announced the release date for the much-anticipated first expansion to their ‘Saga’ dark age skirmish rules. Northern Fury will be released on [...]
Shiny new games…
Several of us at Scimitar have taken advantage of the current sale at Heron Games to add a couple of board games to our collections. Though not in the sale, Pete did take [...]
Ex-Illis day @ Total Wargamer – 17th March 2012
Just a reminder that this coming Saturday sees another Ex-Illis day at the Total Wargamer shop at Blackminster, Evesham. We are once again running a swiss-style tournament, [...]
Big Rich enters the points debate (again!)
If you are a regular listener/reader, then you will know my lack of enthusiasm for using points systems for Historical wargaming. Well, Richard Clarke, he of Too Fat Lardies [...]
New gadget = new show?
I’ve just got hold of a new gadget – the Zoom H1 portable recorder. This handy piece of kit replaces my old mp3 recorder with some much improved mics and [...]
Saga Day – 31st March 2012, Enfield, UK
Rich Jones, occasional co-presenter of this Podcast, has asked me to publise a ‘Saga Day’ that he has organised in Enfield with the support of the guys at [...]
Podcast hits new download milestone
The podcast achieved a new milestone overnight, as it went over 300,000 total downloads – something of a mind-boggling figure! Many thanks to everyone for your [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 83
Download Episode 83 Welcome to Episode 83 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast. In this show I interview Rob Broom of Scarab Miniatures about their recently released [...]
New Podcast Sponsors
Following my appeal for new podcast / website sponsors in Episode 82 of the podcast, I am very pleased to announce that the following companies have agreed to sponsor the [...]
Tales of The Brummie Dwarf 