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Britcon 2024 - The Lists

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  The annual Britcon MeG competition took place over the three days of 9th, 10th and 11th August in Nottingham, UK. To see the results and armies used read on ...

The MeG Podcast Series 4, Episode 8 - The "Great War" of the Tenth Century: Battle of Brunanburh

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  The MeG Podcast team are back with a look at 10th century Britain and in particular the Battle of Brunanburh. Read on for the episode link and other information ...

The Theme With No Name - the Lists

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  Over the weekend of 1st/2nd June 2024 we held a medieval themed competition at Battlefield Hobbies Battlefield Hobbies . Lists had to be chosen from a selection of western-ish medieval lists and had to be dated between 1204 and 1384 CE. To see the lists used, read on ...

The MeG Podcast Series 4, Episode 7 - Terrain

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  The MeG Podcast team with a special guest discuss terrain, how it works in MeG and how we represent it on the table. Read on for the episode link ...

Campaign 2024 - Most of the Lists

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  The 11th and 12th May saw the annual Campaign show held by the Milton Keynes Wargames Society take place in the main shopping centre in Milton Keynes. As usual there was a MeG team competition with teams of 3 players in 3 different themed pools. Below are most of the lists used.

Havoc on the Hamble - Lists of Myth and Legend

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  On 11th May the  Sarisbury Green Wargame Club event “Havoc on the Hamble” took place. The theme was that the army  must contain a Legendary general. The Legendary general must be named, the army date must comply with the life of the legendary general – and a brief (one line) justification for classification of Legendary must be provided. The Legendary general will normally be the C-in-C (the single exception being Achilles in the Trojan War Achaean list #1215). The Legendary general may be an historical figure of legendary status (e.g. Alexander, Caesar etc), or, to make the choice as open as possible, may be any general considered by the player to be ‘deserving’ of legendary status. Below are the lists used.

The MeG Podcast Series 4, Episode 6 - A Million Elephants: Southeast Asian Armies

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  In this episode of The MeG Podcast the team look at some armies, and enemies, from the Southeast Asia list PDF - possibly one of the more obscure of the list PDFs for many players. As usual we have some history and answer some questions posed by our listeners. Read on for details, links and army lists ...

ToIL 2024 - The Lists

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  The annual ToIL competition took place over the Easter weekend, 30th and 34th March, 2024 at the wonderfully hospitable Boards and Swords Hobbies . These are the lists that were used.

The MeG Podcast Series 4, Episode 5 - The Early Arab Conquests

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  In the latest episode of The MeG Podcast we take a look at the Arab Conquests in the period 629 CE to 685 CE, a period that can certainly be described as world changing There is the usual historical overview and a look at some army lists based on the period, plus some reading and figure suggestions. Read on for the army lists and link to the podcast ...