Showing posts with label Ancients. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ancients. Show all posts
Monday, 27 January 2025

Of Ben Hur and Spartacus (with a nod to Gladiator…..)

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The box art The contents - the rules for both games are in one booklet. A close up of the gladiator figures - identical to the AH version as...
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Tuesday, 28 November 2023

The Nelson Touch

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All of these are approaching 50 years old and for sure there is probably more updated material to be found but for all that they are hugely ...
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Saturday, 25 November 2023

Triremes and Salamis

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A box of MDF goodies that will eventually become sixty triremes After what seems like an age my order for sixty triremes has arrived from Wa...
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Monday, 4 September 2023

Triremes Ahoy!

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The component parts. Thanks to the suggestion of Kaptain Kobold the angle of the oars was reduced from 45 degrees to 60. I also took the opp...
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Friday, 21 July 2023

The Evolution of a Trireme

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A and B incorporated a couple of requested tweaks from me - one of which was inspired by that all round good guy, Kaptain Kobold (thanks old...
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Tuesday, 4 July 2023

Of Galleys and Hoplites

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A later version of the classic Warfleets of Antiquity by Richard Nelson which also includes a copy of his Fleet Action Rules 1000 BC to 500 ...
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Wednesday, 7 June 2023

300: Earth and Water

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The box lid…. ….and the rear Lurking away in the dim and dusty recesses of my mental project list is an urge to fight the Greek and Persian ...
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Tuesday, 14 January 2020

Greeks and Persians

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Some classic Greek history and all in hardback. I mentioned previously about making use of my Christmas Amazon gift card and the pic...
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Sunday, 15 December 2019

Byzantine Intrigue

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The first of the new series and I am hoping that the Arab Conquests and the Crusades feature in due course. You may recall that a whol...
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Monday, 15 April 2019

"A beast approaches, and it was King Leonidas himself who provoked it."

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The climax of the film 300 - the Spartans and Greeks have been betrayed by Ephialtes and are now surrounded by the Persian host. A be...
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Sunday, 10 July 2016

Boot Sales and Blocks

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                                                                                      From tiny acorns do mighty blocks grow.... As it is a ...
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Sunday, 5 June 2016

Contemplating My Naval(s)....

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Work continues to dominate my life and so my gaming time has been greatly reduced. All I have been able to do is to catch up on a lot of rea...
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Thursday, 17 March 2016

Command and Colours: Ancients

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The set that launched a thousand expansions (well half a dozen really....) I have dabbled in ancient war games since the early 1980s....
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Friday, 13 November 2015

Salamis....Part 2

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Refighting an Ancient Naval Battle Okay then. I have most of the models and terrain, the rules I plan to use and sufficient research materia...
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Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Salamis....Part One

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A map of the battle of Salamis 480 B.C. One of the particularly helpful benefits of my recent Heroscape acquisitions has been the...
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Wednesday, 28 October 2015

More on Heroscape

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Following on from my last post I have managed to acquire another set of the figures from Heroscape as well as a complete copy of the game co...
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Monday, 8 June 2015

Favourite Rules

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Over the course of my Wargames career  must have tried umpteen set of rules - ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. I have used rules ...
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Saturday, 6 June 2015

Ancients Revisted

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                                                                             One of those dangerously inspirational tomes..... Way back in t...
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Sunday, 5 January 2014

Greek and Persian Galley Stuff

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The Battle of Salamis - with a little artistic licence re the sails which would normally be lowered or even left on shore. Way back ...
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Monday, 9 December 2013

Ancient and Renaissance Blocks

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The great block reorganisation has made some significant progress this weekend as the core sets for red, blue, grey and grey have been compl...
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