Showing posts with label Ancients. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ancients. Show all posts
Tuesday, 8 July 2025

Alan?, ALAN!......

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Following on from the Goths are the Alans.  Both the DBA and ADLG lists give Alannic Horse Archers as an option in the Visigothic lists.  I ...
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Wednesday, 25 June 2025

How Goth were the Goths?

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Before we start let’s just park my dodgy dad jokes about black eye liner and black clothes right here shall we?  Good call, as this post act...
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Tuesday, 3 December 2024

More Moors

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The Moors are coming along nicely.  As usual I'm starting by building a DBA3 army but will probably extend to a small L'Arte De La G...
Sunday, 17 November 2024

The More the Merrier

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Or in this case 'The Moor the Merrier' or Mauri, it's the North West African chaps who are the focus of this post.  I was lookin...
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Tuesday, 5 November 2024

Mixed emotions!

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 A number of years ago I added a plea onto the Baccus forums for the esteemed Mr Berry to create a range of early Byzantines so I could repl...
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Monday, 15 February 2021

The 2021 to do list - another objective met

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The Dacian DBA baseline army is complete along with a few extra options.  I make it 17 elements which gives me some extras for the basic 12 ...
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Tuesday, 9 February 2021

The Dark Ages Campaign

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 Its been few weeks since I did any updates on the Dark Ages campaign.  My focus has been elsewhere mostly on painting figures and for the l...
Wednesday, 18 November 2020

Dal Raitia 799AD - Pictia attacks Comgail (Dal Raitia)

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The Pictish Forces are advancing from the North East and near an insignificant settlement called An Cladach they clash with the Dal Raitian ...
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Friday, 9 October 2020

The Dark Ages campaign - 799AD Scots v Picts setting the stage

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With the dawning of 799AD comes new strife. It's in the North in the lands of the Picts and Scots where a dispute over the little travel...
Tuesday, 6 October 2020

The hunt for a Late Imperial Roman shield pattern

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back when I war gamed with 25mm Hinchcliffes I bought a copy of 'What the Soldiers wore on Hadrian's Wall' from lovely little bo...
Wednesday, 30 September 2020

Mercia 798AD - The battle of Wudiandum continued

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At the end of the last post things the West Saxon centre was finally in action, their right was potentially in trouble as the Mercian comman...
Sunday, 20 September 2020

Meanwhile back in the Dark Ages - Mercia 798AD

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Its been a while since I last returned to the Dark Ages campaign. It's the downside of a solo campaign, my opponent tends not to pester ...
Monday, 22 June 2020

Dark Ages Campaign - campaign rules update

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Just a quick update on the rules this time.  I looked at the next field action (Wessex invades Hwicce) and realised that the numbers of troo...
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Saturday, 13 June 2020

On The Painting Table

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You might have thought that with the lockdown forcing us all to stay at home that I would have done a lot of figure painting, but in rea...
Monday, 8 June 2020

The Dark Ages Campaign 798 AD - Border disputes in Pictia

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Fearing the growing  power of the Pictish Kingdom Riderch King of Strathclyde has determined on a show of force.  The target is the region o...
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