Review: Broken Legions
Rating: Thus begins Broken Legions – another in the series of Wargames Rules from Osprey Publishing, written by Mark Latham. As you can already deduce, this is a [...]
Ancients
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 188 – Dr Harry Sidebottom
Download Episode 188 Welcome to Episode 188 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this show, hosts Neil Shuck and Mike Whitaker talk to best-selling historical [...]
A visit to Gripping Beast…
Sunday 30th October saw the rather unusual event of the entire Meeples podcast crew joining together for a day of gaming, followed by an interview. The occasion? We had been [...]
Review – Mortem Et Gloriam
Rating: Mortem et Gloriam is a new set of Ancients mass battle rules, written by Simon Hall, who was previously a co-author of the Field of Glory rules, which were published [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 181 – Mortem Et Gloriam
Download Episode 181 Welcome to Episode 181 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this episode, hosts Neil Shuck Mike Hobbs, Mike Whitaker and Dave Luff are joined by [...]
Deus Vult: Burn & Loot now available
Fireforge Games have now released Deus Vult: Burn & Loot. This set of rules allows players to fight small engagements in Eastern and Western Europe between the 11th [...]
Ship counters for Poseidon’s Warriors
You may remember that last week I was talking about getting hold of some ‘cheap’ war galleys in order to have some test games of the new ancient naval rules [...]
Poseidon’s Warriors – looking for war galleys
I’m currently working on a review of the recently released Poseidon’s Warriors, written by John Lambshead and published by Osprey Publishing. This is a set of [...]
To the Strongest Welsh Open 2016
Following my recent foray into the world of To the Strongest competition, there is another day being held at Firestorm Games in Cardiff on May 21st 2016. The event is being [...]
A final word on the TtS World Championships
As I mentioned at the start of the week, last weekend I was playing in the To the Strongest World Championships last Saturday. I was playing with a beautifully painted Early [...]
New printed unit cards for Aurelian
Aurelian is the recent Ancients wargame from Sam Mustafa. You may remember that these rules have been released in PDF format, and can be played using unit tiles rather than [...]
To the Strongest World Championship
Today I drove down to the village of Chalgrove in Oxfordshire to attend the second ‘To the Strongest’ World Championship. The event was organised by Steve Dover [...]
Review: Soldiers of God
Rating: Soldiers of God is a set of Ancients rules written by Warwick Kinrade and published by Artorus Games. The game is specifically aimed at gaming tabletop battles [...]
Legions of Rome Kickstarter smashing final stretch goals with 2 days left
In episode 161 of the podcast, we talked to Andy Cooper and Antony Spencer about War & Empire, including the Legions of Rome Kickstarter. With two days left to run on the [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 161 – War & Empire
Download Episode 161 Welcome to Episode 161 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this episode hosts Neil Shuck & Mike Hobbs chat with Andy Cooper of West [...]
Aurelian now available
Back in Episode 154 of the podcast, we talked with Sam Mustafa. As part of that interview, he spent some time telling us about Aurelian, which was his next set of rules, [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 160 – Sword & Spear 2nd Edition
Download Episode 160 Welcome to Episode 160 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this episode hosts Neil Shuck, Mike Hobbs and Mike Whitaker chat about what [...]
Legions of Rome from Forged in Battle on Kickstarter
Forged in Battle have launched their second War & Empire Kickstarter today: Legions of Rome – it funded in just over 3 hours… It’s running until [...]
Sword & Spear Second Edition now available
The second edition of the Sword & Spear rules, written by Mark Lewis, are now available from Great Escape Games. If you are wondering what the differences are, they are [...]
Crowdfunding news – Baueda creating 15mm Marian Roman Army
Baueda are currently running a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to create a new army for Caesar’s legions: The Marian Roman Army 105BC – 25BC The campaign is [...]
