Gamer at the End of Time

  In this last episode of The MeG Podcast for 2022 the team and guests sit down for a bit of a rambling chat looking back and 2022, forward to 2023, and a few other things. Hopefully a bit of light entertainment for you for the holiday ...

  The last weekend in November saw me back in Preston for a MeG competition, this one based around the Plantagenets and their enemies - with a few liberal additions. Last competition there I won, but that seemed unlikely this time. To find out why, and how I did, read on ...

  After an unplanned break since the last episode, the team returns refreshed to cast their eye over the history some of the armies of the Korean Three Kingdoms period. Read on for the link to the podcast and the army lists discussed ...

  As we try to do after each competition here are the lists used at the MeG competition at Warfare 2022. No promise as to their efficacy, that is all down to the player and, of course, the dice ...

  Warfare 2022 was held at the usual mid-November date but at a new venue -  Farnborough Exhibition Centre. The new venue is excellent and will hopefully be used for many years to come. I decided to take my "late" Romans along as the MeG theme was "Rome and its Enemies". I have previously had reasonable success with this army, but how would I do with a new list I had come up with ...

  The last weekend in October saw the MeG regulars, plus some less than regulars, gather at Boards and Swords Hobbies in Derby for the 5th running of Will Denham's Derventio competition. I took an all time favourite of mine, Middle Sasanid Persians. Read on to see how they did ...

  The weekend of 29th & 30th October was the fifth running of the Derventio MeG competition at Boards and Swords Hobbies in Derby. Here are the lists used.

  Over the weekend of 22nd/23rd October I took my Former Yan Xianbei army to the Ribble Rumble held at Element Games in Stockport. Four excellent games ensued. Read on to see what happened ...

  Being an account of how my Angkor Empire army did at the Skullrollers 2022 competition. Read on to find out what happened ...

  A couple of years ago on a whim I decided I "needed" a south-east Asian army for my MeG collection. After a brief perusal of the army lists I decided on the Khmer army of the Angkor Empire. Here is the result ...

  The dust has just about settled after the 5 games of Skullrollers 2022 and a new champion has been crowned. So as is now traditional, here are the army lists used ...

  For a few months I have been painting up a MeG army for Richard, Duke of Gloucester's army which invaded Scotland in 1482. Having finished it, here it is for your perusal ...

  After a late summer break the team returns refreshed to cast their eye over some of the armies involved with the almost continuous warfare of the late Roman Republic. Read on for the link to the podcast and the army lists discussed ...

  The dust may not quite have settled after Britcon, but the competition is most definitely over, the victors crowned with laurels and the rest of us licking our wounds and planning revenge. Therefore, for your delight and delectation read on for the lists used by those who took part ...

  The 9th and 10th of July saw a "biblical" themed competition at Battlefield Hobbies . Here are the lists that were fielded.

  The team plus guests look back at the God Wills It competition and the armies they used, why they chose it and how they did with them. Read on for their pearls of wisdom.

  Over the weekend of 25th and 26th June Battlefield Hobbies in Daventry hosted a "Crusades" themed MeG competition. Here are the lists that were used over the 2 days ...

  The team return and in this episode turn their collective eyes on central/eastern Europe and the army of Hungary as led by Janos Hunyadi. Do they find any gems amongst the armies, or just also rans? Listen and read on to find out.

  On 21st and 22nd May the "Footsloggers" competition was run at Battlefield Hobbies . As the name suggests this had a theme of infantry armies - other than a camp armies had to wholly comprise of “Foot” troops. To see the armies and results read on ...

  In this episode the team look at the Spanish Reconquista to about 1250 CE, and a selection of army lists from the MeG lists for the period.

The Ribble Warriors hosted a MeG competition over the weekend of 23rd/24th with a theme of "Armies and Enemies of the Caesars" - so Roman armies and their enemies. After some dithering about what to take I went with Hunnic. It proved to be a good choice...

  In this episode the team plus guest Rob Hutton look at a selection of the Indian armies that are available in the MeG lists.

  So after 3 games I have 2 wins and a loss. Will the final game see the Liao return to winning ways or again fall by the wayside. As ever, read on to find out ...

  So after a successful first day at Badcon winning both games it was onto day 2 to see if the winning streak would continue. Did it? ...

  Following a victory over the Tribal Mongols in game one, game two faced me off against John Munro who was using Khawarij. In recent games John leads me 2-1; can I drag it back to 2-2 ...

  Having spend a lot of time getting a Khitan Liao army that I liked together I finally plucked up the courage to take them to a competition rather than just using them in one off games. Badcon 2022 was their debut. See how they went on ...

  In a return to a historical topic for this podcast after a couple of competition based ones, the team cast their collective eyes over the Romans in western Europe from the time of Augustus to the Batavian revolt.

  Well much to my surprise I find myself on the top table in the final round of the competition. I am facing Simon Hall who is using Mongol Conquest. We had played a few weeks earlier and Simon had the advantage, how would it turn out in this rematch?

  Day two of Ice & Fire drew my Early Northern Song up against Lee Sanders' Yuan Chinese - lots of Mongol cavalry with Skilled shooting, how would I do ...

  Following on from a satisfying victory over the Khwarasmians in the first game, the Song moved onto to face Early Fatimids in the second game. Read on for details ...

  My newly finished Early Northern Song army made the trip to the Ice & Fire competition at Battlefield Hobbies in Daventry. I was unsure how well it would do, so read on to see what I found out ...

  Here are the lists used at the Ice and Fire MeG competition that took place over the 22nd and 23rd January at Battlefield Hobbies in Daventry. 32 players attended to fight it out with (roughly) non-European armies.

  Last year I wrote a couple of blog articles about my Song army and how I was replacing the figures with ones I felt were more historical. This is a piece about how it turned out.