Gamer at the End of Time

  The start of day 2 of the Ribble Rumble saw me sitting about mid-table mediocrity. The draw pitched me up against James "Hammy" Hamilton who was standing in for Paul Cummins who, alas, could not make it. Hammy used the army Paul was going to use, Khitan Liao. Read on to see how it went ...

  So after a successful first day at Badcon winning both games it was onto day 2 to see if the winning streak would continue. Did it? ...

  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 ...

  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 ...

Back in April I blogged about my quest for suitable cavalry figures for Khitan Liao cavalry. I decided on figures from Khurasan Miniatures with some minor conversions. At the time I commented that I would then move on to the rest of the army, and here is what happened ...

  For a long time I have had the desire to do a Liao army, mainly for the reason that you don't see it very often and because the Khitans, who formed the Liao , seem to be a somewhat overlooked power despite their immense influence on China from the early 10th century to the early 12th. Even after the fall of their Liao dynasty a remnant formed the Qara Khitan empire in Central Asia until conquered by the Mongols, and it is likely that the west got the name Cathay for China from these Qara Khitai.