Legiones antiquitata is a game where the historical ancients armies we all know and love exist in a world where timelines have slipped...

Back in 2021 I wrote part one about my Great Uncle William Henry Johnson and his service in WW1 notably as one of JRR Tolkiens' signallers in the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers. That post is here https://www.firstcommissionpainting.co.uk/single-post/william-henry-johnson-the-story-of-my-great-uncle-during-the-great-war-part-i Part One ended in August 1918 after the destruction of the 11th Battalion at the end of May 1918 in the final German offensive in a lonely last stand on a hi

First heard this phrase from the mouth of Sheriff Buck in the vastly underrated TV series "American Gothic" and along with "Someone's at...

The Trojan War was for a very long time believed to be a classic Greek Literary myth collected by Homer or Homers about a mythical war...

Continuing my completely non expert illustrated wander through the possible historical back stories of Game of Thrones I arrive at the...

Think of the Wildlings or Free Folk north of the wall and the immediate analogy which comes to mind are the Pict barbarians living North...