Gamer at the End of Time

After 3 successful games, including 2 outright victories I am now lying in 2nd place in the competition 5 points behind Paul Cummins and his thrice victorious Nikeforian Byzantines. If either of us breaks the opponent we are guaranteed first place in the competition. So all to play for; read on to see what happened ...

  So after a good first day - 25 from a possible 30 points - followed by an excellent evening out, we move onto day 2. Can I continue successfully, or will I be humbled? Read on ...

  Following my success against the Normans the second game of the weekend saw my Uqaylids drawn up against Matt Haywood's very pretty Thematic Byzantine army. To see if I could repeat my first game success read on ...

  The weekend of the 18th and 19th of March saw the regular ToIL competition held at Boards & Swords Hobbies in Derby (ToIL = Time of Inadequate Light - we don't say "Dark Ages" these days 😁 ). I took a Bedouin Dynasties army, Uqaylids of Mosul. To see how the first game went, please read on ...

  In this episode of The MeG Podcast the team look at one of the iconic "classical" era armies, the Carthaginians. Covering not just the well known Punic Wars, but also the history of Carthage before their conflict with Rome, the team discuss a number of army lists of what can be a tricky pair of lists to get a good army from. So to learn more, read on ...

  As the BadCon competition entered the final stretch I am drawn against an Early Iranian army - so loads of shooty stuff a bit like the Persians I faced in the first game. I did OK against the Persians, can I do better against their ancestors? Read on ...

  So on to game 3 in this Carthaginian mini-odyssey. This will match me against Camillan Romans in an almost, but not quite, historical match-up. A sort of Punic Wars preview 😄 So did the Carthaginians do better than they did in the Pubic Wars, or did the preview set the tone? Read on ...

  After a partially successful first game against Persians (which can be found HERE ), my second BadCon game was against Classical Indians. Could I do better than my first game? Read on to find out ...

  The annual BadCon competition in Burton-upon-Trent has just been and gone. The MeG theme this year was "Armies and enemies of the Greeks, Medes and Persians from 670 BCE to 357 BCE". I took a version of my Early Carthaginian. To see how it fared, read on ...