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Legiones - Turn two - the killing starts.

Initiative roll. Amerindians 3 Northmen 1 - Amerindian win. Turn two started well for the Northmen with the Elves activating on Advance...

Legiones IV - Turn one - The game starts for real

And we're off! Northmen turn 1 roars into action as the Northmen player slams down a red 5 and activates the Shaman. Shamans are a safe...

Legiones III - Deployment thoughts

This is the bit before the battle when both sides have well thought out plans and deploy accordingly. It is the part just before the bit...

Legiones II - Setting up

The first thing to do in setting up a game of Legions is to decide the two armies and to find out which is the home army as this will...

Legione Antiquitatas I - Why the rules are as they are, or design notes...

We started developing what has become known as Legions at the start of Covid in 2019 when it was no longer possible to play our weekly...

William Henry Johnson - Part 2, A Great War story

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'...

Now you see it now you don't - Painting Modern British Camouflage

I recently completed another eclectic job for a South Korean customer of which part was the painting up of these White Dragon modern...

The past isn't dead - hell it's not even the past! (1)

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

Busting out all over

Realised I hadnt Blogged for a bit so thought I would do a quick review of June and its glories, or what I painted anyway, some less than...

As full of spirit as the month of May

As those of you who had to study Henry IV part one at school ( in the olden days ) might recognise, the quote above is Shakespeare....