Gamer at the End of Time

  As usual March saw the regular ToIL early medieval MeG competition taking place at Boards & Swords Hobbies in Derby and I took the Great Seljuq Empire. On the first day I had suffered a big loss and gained a big win to leave me on 17 points (from a possible 30) and distinctly mid-table. To see if could improve on that on day 2 read on ...

As usual March saw the regular ToIL early medieval MeG competition taking place at Boards & Swords Hobbies in Derby. This is always a good weekend and this year 22 players took part. I went with a Great Seljuq Empire army and to see how I did, read on ...

  Over the weekend of 22nd and 23rd March the annual ToIL MeG competition was held at Boards and Swords Hobbies in Derby 22 players contended and here are the lists used ...

  The weekend of the 1st/2nd March saw 12 players gather for the Kent Clash. The theme for the competition was to field any army but that it must contain at least 1 unit of elephants. So this would allow a wide range of quite diverse armies. Also there was a special "Elephant King" prize for the Commander whose army killed the most Elephants. I decided to take an Indian army, Vijayanagar. Day 1 had seen me score 21 out of a possible 30. To see how I fared on the 2nd day, read on ...

  The weekend of the 1st/2nd March saw 12 players gather for the Kent Clash. The theme for the competition was to field any army but that it must contain at least 1 unit of elephants. So this would allow a wide range of quite diverse armies. Also there was a special "Elephant King" prize for the Commander whose army killed the most Elephants. I decided to take an Indian army, Vijayanagar. To see how it fared, read on ...

  The MeG podcast is back for an episode inspired by a post on the MeG Forum asking about the differences between catafracts and knights. The usual suspects, Richard, Matt and Nik, discuss these troops and have a couple of lists for your consideration. Read on for the link to the podcast and the army lists ...

  The weekend of the 1st/2nd March 2025 was the Kent Clash held, as you might guess, in Kent - at a private school in Sevenoaks to be more exact. All armies had to have at least 1 TuG of at least 2 Elephants that could be either from the main list or an allies list. Also there was a special "Elephant King" prize for the Commander whose army killed the most Elephants. The results as the list used can be found if you read on ...

  So after a first day of mixed fortunes in my games (win and losing draw) followed by a convivial evening involving Six nations rugby, beer and an Italian meal, the second day of the competition dawned bright and sunny. To see if I could improve on the first day read on ...

  The 2025 MeG competition circuit moved on to the beachhead competition in Bournemouth on the weekend of the 8th/9th February. The theme was any army up to 1000 CE that could have Coastal as a territory type in its list. After a certain amount of dithering I decided to take my Yamato Era Japanese. Read on to see how it did ...

  The MeG competition at Beachhead 2025 in Bournemouth was run over the weekend of the 8th and 9th February 2025. For the lists used read on ...

  So after two successful games on the first day of Ice and Fire 2025 the second day arrives with the Buyids riding high, although there is a pack at the top of the leaderboard that will get thinned down. To see how the Buyids fared in the next two games, read on ...

Here are the lists from the 2025 edition of the Ice and Fire Competition. As ever, we cannot vouch for the effectiveness of any of the lists (and note the comments on a couple of them) and you use any at your own risk ...

  The fourth running of the MeG "Ice and Fire" competition took place over the weekend of 11th/12th January. This kicks off the 2025 MeG competition year and has proved popular each time it has been run. The theme is "open", but with only "eastern-ish" armies allowed - so no date restrictions; but roughly speaking armies based west of Byzantium are not allowed (plus a few eastwards as well if they are deemed "out of character" for the comp). I took Dailami Dynasties (Buyid) and to find out how they fared read on ...