Gamer at the End of Time

  In part one of this write up we saw how my Ilkhanate army fared against Qin and Bantu on the first day of the 2023 running of the MeG Ice & Fire competition. That left me in "mid-table mediocrity"; would day 2 see me improve. Read on ...

  The first UK MeG competition of 2023 took place at Battlefield Hobbies and was a repeat of the popular "Ice & Fire" theme from January last year. Basically it was armies outside of Europe (sort of). I went with my 2020 lockdown army build of Ilkhanate. As the title may suggest it didn't go as well as maybe hoped, but was still a great weekend with fun games. Read on for details ... 

  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 ...

  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 ...

  We now turn to the second day of the MeG "Skullrollers" event. After two wins and a draw on day one I'm doing pretty well if a bit off the pace of the leaders. So how did the fourth game turn out ...

  So we now move onto the third game in the 2021 "Skullrollers" competition. The third game in a day can be the hardest due to a bit of mental fatigue setting in, so to find out if it got to me read on ...

  To follow the account of the victory of my Seljuqs over the Almoravids in the first round of the 2021 "Skullrollers" competition, here is what transpired in the second round...

  As mentioned in my last blog post over the weekend of the 25th/26th September 30 eager MeGers gathered at the London Grand Tournament for the MeG World Championships - a.k.a. "Skullrollers". At the last LGT event I had taken Middle Sasanid Persians and managed to finish 3rd; this time I took Sultanate of Rum. This is an account of the first of 5 games; to see how I did read on ...

  So with the Warriors of the Cross and Crescent competition in Stockport now done and dusted, the Podcast Team look back at how they did and how their armies fared. Read on for a link to the podcast and the gory details, plus nearly all the lists used over the weekend ...

  "Needing" an army for the Classical/Hellenistic period, a period I am not that interested in, I almost accidentally ended up building an Early Carthaginian army which turned out more effective that I thought it would be. Here is a bit of an account of how it came to pass ...

In which our two heroes explore the joys of Tribal manoeuvre with many Yellow Cards used for wheeling and for MF1 moves. Read on ...