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Edgehill at Partizan
On Sunday at Partizan (the excellent wargames show in Newark) Andrew Brentnall and I will be running a participation game of our forthcoming "For King and Parliament" ECW rules. We have spaces for...
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Nellie news
Aventine have produced some new ride on crew for their new resin elephants, and Keith kindly sent me some photos which I reproduce here. These are really great minis- all the heads are separate so it...
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Opening a new front...
I'm sorry for the recent lack of posts- I've been very busy writing "For King and Parliament" for release late this year and it's cut right across my blogging time. I still have loads of units that I...
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Normans
I'm going to try to get back to two or three posts a week. Here are some Normans that Shaun McTague painted and which I've detailed. I plan to produce a good-sized Norman army and a Byzantine army to...
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ECW 2
Terrible photo but the ECW minis are coming on- I now have 60 "under the brush". The chaps on the left will be Royalists and the right, New Model Army. Two things I have learned thus far:-ECW minis are...
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Norman foot
Here are some of the Norman foot that Shaun McTague has painted for me- I hope to eventually have around four times this many. They are mounted on temporary painting blocks- I really should be...
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ECW 3
Steady progress with the ECW minis- I'm around 70% in on the first (front) regiment now, they need to be piked, inked and varnished. The command stand are mustering at the rear... They are going to...
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ECW 4
Progress on my first regiment- the command stand and casualty minis are blocked in and the rest are inked. Turns out that command minis are even slower to paint than musketeers! Still, I am on the...
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Summer sale!
I will be holding a summer sale of the “To the Strongest!” ancient and medieval wargames rules, lasting until midnight UK time on Friday 7th July.The rules' unique activation mechanism and simple grid...
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New "For King and Parliament" Blog
I'll be posting a great deal about the English Civil War during the coming year, so have decided to set up a dedicated ECW blog- it's called For King and Parliament (the same name as that of the rules...
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More Greek horse!
Mea culpa- it has been over three weeks since my last blog post here.After a lengthy busman's holiday on my new English Civil War blog I have returned from an actual holiday (Whitby) to ancients. Here...
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28mm Desert buildings
Chum Welsh Raglan is trying to persuade Total Battle Miniatures to replicate this range of 10mm buildings in the larger 28mm scale. The lovely buildings are cast in light weight resin. They would be...
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Thebans at the charge
I have around 10 painting sessions before Partizan and have been racing to finish what I'm calling the Theban mega-phalanx for Leuctra- it'll be touch and go. Here are the shields- painted, varnished...
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Mega-phalanx 2
A hastily snatched shot of Thebans forming up for Sunday-week's mega phalanx. Here are the 70-odd hoplites (Lucid Eye, Foundry and Victrix) that will constitute the 6-deep formation. They are all in...
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Mega Phalanx 3
A quick WIP shot of the forming phalanx; all minis finished and varnished. Ranking up is always a challenge with animated minis like the ones I'm using here. Happily I am currently ahead of target for...
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Mega phalanx 4
Here are a couple of WIP shots of the Theban phalanx for Sunday. This will represent the very deep Theban phalanx used at Leuctra. The bases are only part painted and also need to be flocked, but...
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Leuctra at Partizan
Hi all, I'm still playing catch up after Partizan but here are a couple of photos of the game, taken by chum Ian Notter.Above is the Spartan deployment- that's Cleombrotos I at the start of the battle....
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Mea culpa...
...mea maxima culpa- it has been six weeks since my last blog post in the BigRedBatCave! I have been posting on my new ECW blog, For King nd Parliament, but writing and modelling time has temporarily...
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With Ruspina to SELWG!
The annual SELWG show (Crystal Palace on Sunday week) is now just ten days away and I'll be putting on a rather grand game of To the Strongest!Ruspina is one of Caesar's less well known battles, but...
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Announcing the 2018 To the Strongest Worlds!
The fourth "To the Strongest!" World Championships will take place in the village of Chalgrove in Oxfordshire on Saturday 24th February 2018. We believe that "Worlds" is the largest big-battle...
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