Brothers in Arms: A Shattered Lances game

“Ridwan of Aleppo was worried. To the south in Damascus, his brother Duqaq was preparing for war. On succeeding his father as ruler of Aleppo, Ridwan had quite sensibly began murdering his brothers. Duqaq, however, managed to escape to Damascus and was now ruler there. Duqaq seemed to be bearing a grudge over his attempted…

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A 6mm Crusades Project

Crusades is one of those periods I keep coming back to. Most recently I did it in 15mm, but now it’s become the latest period I’ve decided to convert to 6mm. I started out with 6mm a few years ago as a way to get a lot of figures painted quickly, then with Napoleonics. So…

6mm Viking Age: Buildings

In the last post I wrote a bit about the figures for the 6mm Viking Age project. Now I thought I’d cover some of the scenery. While the project is primarily aimed at doing large battles, I’ll be looking to use the figures in other games as well. One of these games will be the…

6mm Viking Age

The genesis of a project for battles in the Viking Age stretches all the way back to the 1980’s and a wonderful series on British early medieval battles by Guy Halsall along with a set of rules called ‘Dark Age Infantry Slog’ by Andy Callan. I’d had a few goes at doing something ‘Dark Age’…

Tora No Monogatari: A solo Test of Honour campaign. Part Two

I previously talked about a solo Test of Honour narrative campaign here. The basic principle is that the AI for the opponents is very simple, and events on the table-top, coupled with occasional use of random events, form the narrative that holds it all together. What follows is an account of the second part of…

Linking figures to cards for Test of Honour

One of the issues with test of Honour, or any other game where each figure has a card to record its abilities, is working out a way to connect the figure on the tabletop to that card. This is especially true with Test of Honour for me as I use any cards for any figures.…

Tora No Monogatari part 1. A Test of Honour solo campaign.

I talked a bit about a 'narrative' solo Test of Honour campaign in an earlier post. I thought I'd collate the story so far. The historical setting is Owari province, where Oda Nobunaga is attempting to gain control of the province by deposing the senior branch of the Oda clan. Ambush at Atsuta. Toranosuke, a…

Solo Test of Honour

I’ve recently revisited Test of Honour and had a go at reworking my approach to solo games with it. My basic approach to solo games is that you don’t have to create an ‘AI’ that plays the game in the same way that a player does. If a game has the player only able to…

Adventures in 3mm

I recently got some 3mm WW2 figures to try out on a bit of an impulse. I wanted to do some jungle-type bases in a similar style to my 6mm WW2 Eastern Front bases. While I had done some such bases in 15mm, this really only amounted to putting a load of foliage on the…

Feudal (Japan) Patrol

Feudal Patrol is the Medieval version of Buck Surdu's WW2 rules 'Combat Patrol.' I really liked Combat Patrol, but I'm not the biggest fan of platoon level WW2, so I haven't played it that much. I was keen to see how the system would work in an earlier period. When the rules arrived on pre-order,…