Review: Sword and Spear
Rating: Sword and Spear are a new set of wargames rules for gaming in the Ancient period, from the time of the Ancient Egyptians right through to Medieval Europe. They have [...]
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Review: Lion Rampant
Rating: Lion Rampant is the eighth in the series of Osprey Wargames rules. This set allows you to fight battles from the medieval period, in either an historical or [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 130 – In Her Majesty’s Name
Download Episode 130 Welcome to Episode 130 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this show, hosts Neil Shuck & Mike Whitaker provide an in-depth review of the [...]
Sword & Spear – the Holy Grail of Ancients rules?
I don’t know about you, but I’ve never been 100% happy with many of the Ancients rulesets that I’ve played over the years, bearing in mind that I’m [...]
Review: Jugula
Rating: Jugula is a gladiator game, written by the same team that have previously published Saga and Muskets & Tomahawks. Unlike some previous gladiator games, Jugula [...]
Battleground: Historical Warfare returns with a Kickstarter project
Back in 2005, Your Move Games came up with the idea of creating a tabletop miniatures wargame, without the miniatures: Battleground: Fantasy Warfare. The whole idea was to [...]
Those about to die…
The recent release of Jugula from Studio Tomahawk has once again brought gladiator games into the gaming consciousness. Whilst Gripping Beast provide a very nice vinyl [...]
Warbands & Legions on Kickstarter
There is a Kickstarter project running at the moment for an Ancients wargame called ‘Warbands & Legions‘. Whilst I’m currently unconvinced by either the [...]
War & Empire: new Forged in Battle Kickstarter launches at 15:00 GMT
Forged in Battle, part of West Wind Productions, are launching a new range of Ancients in 15mm, under the name War & Empire. The range will cover the Macedonian & [...]
Kickstarter Updates…Battle Systems, AvP, Sulphur, War & Empire and Ex-Illis
Battle System After a hectic first few days, the Battle System Sci-Fi Modular Terrain project appears to be settling down with a steady stream of backers. It has already [...]
Review: Deus Vult!
Rating: Fireforge Games burst onto the scene at the start of 2012 when they released their first box set of plastic Teutonic Knights. They have since released a further two [...]
Miniature Review – 28mm Plastic Norman Infantry from Conquest Games
Welcome to Episode 36 of the Meeples & Miniatures Miniature Review show In this show, I take a closer look at the box set of 28mm Plastic Norman Infantry from Conquest [...]
Miniature Review – 28mm Plastic Mounted Sergeants from Fireforge Games
Welcome to Episode 35 of the Meeples & Miniatures Miniature Review show In this show, I take a closer look at the box set of 28mm Plastic Mounted Sergeants from Fireforge [...]
Meeples & Miniatures – Episode 92 – Augustus to Aurelian
Download Episode 92 Welcome to Episode 92 of the Meeples & Miniatures Podcast In this show I look at the recently released ancients ruleset, Augustus to Aurelian. I speak [...]
Society of Ancients Battle Day 2012 – “We’re going to need a bigger goat”
Back at the end of March, I went to the Society of Ancients Battle Day in Bletchley, near Milton Keynes, UK. The aim of the day was to re-fight the battle of Plataea (479 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Review – Hail Caesar: Army Lists: Biblical & Classical
Rating: As soon as Hail Caesar hit the wargaming public back at Salute (was it only 7 months ago?) an outcry was seen on many different forums… Where were the army lists? [...]
Review: Clash of Empires
Rating: Clash of Empires is a set of Ancients rules produced by Great Escape Games, who are previously known for producing the World War 2 rules Rules of Engagement. As [...]
Miniature Review – Warlord Roman Legion Box Set
Welcome to the latest video review from Meeples & Miniatures In this episode I review the latest Roman Legionary box set from Warlord games, which includes 20 Roman [...]
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