Gamer at the End of Time

  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 ...

  Here are the lists used at the Ice and Fire MeG competition that took place over the 22nd and 23rd January at Battlefield Hobbies in Daventry. 32 players attended to fight it out with (roughly) non-European armies.

  Last year I wrote a couple of blog articles about my Song army and how I was replacing the figures with ones I felt were more historical. This is a piece about how it turned out.

  Following the last MeG Podcast episode -  The Great Raid, Mongol style 1220-1223CE - Richard and I had a game where we used the lists we had drawn up for the podcast. So Subutai faced off against Jalal al-Din; which list prevailed? Read on for a short account ...

The MeG Podcast goes back to history in this episode with the team looking at a number of army lists in the context of Subutai and Jebe's "Great Raid", plus a look back at the recent Derventio IV competition. Read on for links and supporting information ...

  The dust has settled on the first "proper" UK MeG competition of 2021, and the team look back at their army choices - why they chose the armies they did, the composition, and how they fared in the heat of battle. Did they regret their choices? Did they make mistakes? Read on to find out ...

  After the last MeG Podcast on the later Crusades it was inevitable that one of the lists got a run out. So Ray ran the Later Crusader list that went down so well on the podcast, whilst I used an Ilkhanate army that I painted up last year during one of the lockdowns. As to what transpired, read on ...

  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.