Gamer at the End of Time

  Back after a bit of a break, in this episode the team look at 4 field battles of one of ancient/medieval history's most famous generals, Belisarius.

  Over the weekend of the 13th & 14th January the 3rd edition of the very popular Ice and Fire competition was run at Battlefield Hobbies in Daventry, UK. As ever there was a great variety of lists - the theme is "sort of easternish open". To see the lists used, read on ...

  After a low scoring 3rd game I am definitely in the bottom half of the draw. The last game of the Ribble Rumble matched me up against Matt Poole who was using Chola Empire. It will include elephants, but we did OK against the last lost so it'll work out alright won't it? Read on to see if it did ...

  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 ...

  After an 8-8 draw against Cid's Nikeforian Byzantine the second game of the Warriors of the Silk Road competition saw my Yamato Japanese facing Peter Reilly's Ghaznavids. Whilst there is a clue in the blog title, read on to see what happened ...

The Ribble Rumble MeG competition held at Element Games on 2nd and 3rd of December was themed around armies along the famous Silk Road (sort of). The 20 lists used are here for your delight and delectation. Read on ...

  Over the weekend of 2nd/3rd December the Ribble Rumble competition took place at Element Games in Stockport. As part of this there was a 15mm MeG competition based around armies of the Silk Road. The competition rules only allowed a restricted number of armies and a limitation on how many times they could be chosen. I went for Yamato Era Japanese as an army I have painted up but never used in competition. Read on to see how it performed ...

  The weekend of 11th/12th November saw the traditional Warfare show which included a Mortem et Gloriam competition. Here are the lists used by the 28 competitors ...

  After game 2 produced a satisfying victory the Huns moved onto their 3rd game. This time they would face Dacians. An account of this game follows ...

  Following a near glorious victory, only being denied by the clock, the Huns moved on to the second game of the competition. This would see them face off against that wargames favourite, the Seleukids played by Simon Cooper. To see what happened, read on ...