Infamy, Infamy! – New Ancients rules from TFL available for pre-order
After many months of anticipation, Too Fat Lardies are finally ready to publish their Ancients rules of warfare in the age of Rome – Infamy, Infamy!* The rules are [...]
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Infamy, Infamy! – starting a new project?
If you are a fan of Too Fat Lardies rules and follow them on social media, it will have been difficult to miss the fact that they are currently working on a set of large [...]
Lords of Hellas – First impressions
When I first saw it, I thought that Lords of Hellas by Awaken Realms was just another ‘dudes on a board’ area control game, albeit with an interesting theme. It [...]
Review: Painting Wargames Figures – Early Imperial Romans
Having recently played the forthcoming ‘Infamy, Infamy!‘ rules from Too Fat Lardies, it seems an opportune moment to take a look at a book which gives a detailed [...]
First play of “Infamy, Infamy!”
Last weekend saw myself and The Halfling Hickman travel down to the Forest of Dean for a day of gaming with Matt Slade and Ralph Plowman – we were also joined by [...]
Grenzer Games running Kickstarter for 15mm plastic Imperial Romans
Grenzer Games has launched a kickstarter project to create a box set of 15mm scale Imperial Romans as part of their new game At Lances Point. The box is intended to contain [...]
Footsore Miniatures & Games launch ‘Mythic’ expansion for Mortal Gods
Ever since Footsore Miniatures produced Mortal Gods – their skirmish game set in Ancient Greece – people have been asking if/when they will release an expansion [...]
Bringing Rome to life
It is perfectly possible to play our wargames on a table populated with roads, buildings and vegetation. However, it looks so much better if the terrain has a ‘lived [...]
Gangs of Rome on YouTube
Gangs of Rome has now been released, and as part of that, Footsore Miniatures have published a complete series of Overview videos on YouTube, explaining the various aspects [...]
Gangs of Rome available for pre-order from Footsore Miniatures
Footsore Miniatures are launching a brand new gang skirmish game – Gangs of Rome You may say “Oh no, not another skirmish wargame on a 3×3 table”, but [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
