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Society of Ancients members can stop reading now One of my favourite reads every two months is Slingshot. This is the journal of the Society of Ancients, based in the UK. The Society is a collection of wargamers, historians (military and otherwise) whose common interest is ancient military history and playing games with [...] A Wargamer’s Indecision Dilemma. I have a bunch of 6mm figures painted and ready for basing. That’s them on the left there with the bases I was going to use. They look neat laid out ready for basing. I was intending to base them on 60x30mm bases for Polemos. On the left would be [...]  Tags: 6mm, ancient, DBA, Polemos, Wargames, warmaster | 
One comment so far |  Print This Post |  Email This Post |  One of my favourite podcasts has been The History of Rome. I have spent many an interesting hour driving to visit my mum near Coffs Harbour or my kids in and around Canberra, listening to this podcast on my iPod as the kilometres sped past. This has been an ambitious project of Mike Duncan, to [...] For one of the many wargame projects I have running here I need some Greek Cavalry. I have some Thessalian light horse already so I’m looking for 9 to 12 painted 15mm Greek Cavalry – either from the Early or Later Hoplite period. Basing not required. I have picked up enough figures off eBay to [...] My first competition game at Cancon 2011 (well, at any time really) was against Dave Turner, a Canberra local, and his Book II, List 73 Old Bavarians with Avar and Western Slav Allies. This gave him a good troop mix with the Avars providing Superior Regular Cavalry (Reg Cv(S)), the Western Slavs providing a [...] Tags: 15mm, ancient, cancon, DBMM, franks, saxon |
One comment so far | Print This Post | Email This Post | I had decided to play the De Bellis Magistrorum Militum (DBMM) competition at Cancon 2011. Looking through the army lists as well as the figures I had at home I had settled on something Carolingian in appearance. I had some figures that I had acquired at a bring and buy in the UK and [...] To complete my battle reports from Cancon 2011 of the DBA competition, I thought I would include the final scorecard which lists players, armies and final results. This was such a fun competition, the games played in great spirit, the juniors, in many cases, outperforming the seniors. I can thoroughly recommend anyway thinking of playing [...] Tags: 15mm, ancient, Canberra, cancon, DBA, Wargames |
One comment so far | Print This Post | Email This Post | The last battle – round 6. For this round I had drawn Adrian Williams and his Samanids (“Sama-what’s” said I, “Samanids” said he). I could not find that list easily in the rules so thought “what the heck, let’s just deploy and see what turns up”. In fact the list Adrian was using [...] Tags: 15mm, ancient, Canberra, cancon, DBA, khurasanian, rajput, samanids, Wargames |
One comment so far | Print This Post | Email This Post | Round 5 arrived. For this round I had to face the Wars of the Roses English of Peter Braham. Peter’s two sons, Bas and Sam, were also playing as juniors in the competition and both finished higher up the table than Dad. I was a little concerned as one of the options available to [...] I had lunch (the by now usual burger with the lot and Coke Zero) and in the first round following that Rajputi feast, I faced Brenton Searle and his list IV/33 Epirot Byzantine. This looked to be a difficult game for me as apart from Brenton being a good, experienced player, the Byzantines have a [...] Tags: 15mm, ancient, byzantine, Canberra, cancon, DBA, epirot, epirus, rajput, Wargames |
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