Category Archives: Wargaming

Kings of War 2nd edition – thoughts and a run through the game – Turns 1 & 2

Mantic Games first came to my attention in 2009 as a producer of plastic wargames figures for massed ranked battles. They produced spindly Elves and solid, chunky late armoured dwarves and lots of undead. The next year, the veteran rules-write … Continue reading

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Review: “Royal Armies of the Hyborian Age” – A Wargamers Guide to the Age of Conan – Lin Carter & Scott Bizar

That these fantasy wargames rules, first published in 1975, are still in print, or at least available in PDF, is less a testament to these rules and much more about the strange business habits of Scott Bizar, who kept products … Continue reading

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Foldable Project, ready to deploy

I have a map, I have decided on the rules (Basic Impetus) and I finally have my order of battle and counters. Although I thought 3cm frontage would look fine on the map, I also scaled them to 2cm and … Continue reading

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Foldable Project – not forgotten

The travelling has impacted severely on my time. Even the days I am not working in Edinburgh, my lunchtimes are usually taken up out doing errands. Nonetheless, the actual counters are done. I am partway through putting them onto a … Continue reading

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Foldable Project scales again

My battlefield works out at about 1/3the size of the standard Impetus battlefield. The standard frontage is 12cm per unit. So I am looking at at four cm unit width. Seems a bit big for this battle. The Basic Impetus … Continue reading

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