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Showing posts with label roman. Show all posts
Monday, 7 June 2021

One from the "Memory Box": A Roman School Project

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This was a school project my youngest son did when he was seven (or at most eight), it still amazes me as to how good he got it (see below, ...
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Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Command and Colours Board Game: "Better Than Figures?"

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The set-up for the first battle, Akragas (see below, me playing against myself): Not quite a substitute for figures but more satisfying...
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Friday, 1 March 2019

DBA Version 3.0: You Tube Video of DBA Battles - Romans v Germans

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Another good Tony Aguliar DBA Version 3.0 Rules run through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyif3W22r9Y I do have the Early Imperial Rom...
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Sunday, 6 January 2019

"Nero" Board Game

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Over Xmas I picked up a copy of this interesting board game called Nero (or rather post Emperor Nero mess with four warring Roman factions) ...
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Tuesday, 5 June 2018

Early Imperial Romans WIP Update

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Early Imperial Romans don't look Roman until you give them their shields (see below, the first stage): The plan is to paint up thes...
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Thursday, 30 November 2017

Ancient Naval Musings: Academic Trireme Simulation Proposal

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This blew my tiny little mind from the Rams Ravens and Wrecks blog: http://ramsravensandwrecks.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/research-proposal-di...
Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Feeling hard-core with my 28mm Metal Romans from Warlord Games

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I knew the time would come when the lure of 28mm metal Ancients woudl get me and that time has come. To supplement the eBay (infantry) plast...
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Saturday, 28 January 2017

The (Early Imperial) Romans are coming ... in 28mm

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For a while now (well it seems to have been about ten years actually) I have continually found myself "humming and 'arring" ab...
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Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Fantasy with a twist .. Roman Style

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Put this down to the result of one of those two minute "conversations" you have with a friend at a wargame show. Something I was n...
Friday, 27 June 2014

DBMM (4 of 4): End Game (Rome v Chinese)

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The battle reaches its climatic end-game.  The power of the blades is self evident as the Roman Legion blows a hole and a half in the Chines...
Thursday, 19 June 2014

DBMM (3 of 4): Furious Fighting (Rome v Chinese)

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The Roman army proved its metal and rebounded into the fray. The Romans showed that they too could hurt at a distance as they had a wonder w...
Wednesday, 18 June 2014

DBMM (2 of 4): Advance and Action on the Flanks (Rome v Chinese)

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The Chinese "long thin line" advances en masse (see below): An early archery strike killing a warband stand fills the Chinese...
Tuesday, 17 June 2014

DBMM (1 of 4): Three Kingdoms versus Middle Imperial Romans

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The battlefield was set with the Three Kingdom Chinese determined as the aggressors, the Romans therefore have the advantage of a small defe...
Wednesday, 4 June 2014

Spectator Sport: Romans v Seleucid "Grim Reaper" (2) End Game

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The clash of cavalry goes the way of the Romans. As seems to be the way with DBMM, DBM and DBA rules sets, an initial +1 overlap tends to ri...
Tuesday, 3 June 2014

Spectator Sport: Duelling the Middle Imperial Romans DBMM Style (1)

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A wargaming friend has recently completed a spectacular "wargaming project" in 25/28mm, painting a small/medium sized Middle Imper...
Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Greeks and Romans ... tell me who were these Romans?

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Whenever one reads about the Greeks (lumping Alexander and the Successors all in as one) there always seems to be a few chapters "compa...
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Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Early Xmas present for Santa's list ... Perhaps

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Psst ... Under the guise of a 'garden ornament' I want one of these ... "It's a bit like a Roman 'bird table' ...
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