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 [...]
Impetus / Basic Impetus
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
