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The MeG Podcast, Series 5, Episode 5 - Rivers, Elephants, Catafracts and more

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  The MeG podcast is back again for an episode where the team chat about rivers and a number of troops types used in recent competitions that caught our attention. Read on for the link to the podcast. the army lists, some suggested reading and figures for armies ...

Kent Clash 2025 - Vijayanagar Day 2

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  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 ...

Kent Clash 2025 - Vijayanagar Day 1

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  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 ...

Beachhead 2025 - Yamato Era Japanese Day 2

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  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 ...

BadCon 2023 - A Carthaginian Odyssey Pt 2

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  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 ...

Rolling Skulls With the Angkor Empire

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

Angkor Empire Army - Medieval Khmer

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  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 ...