Sponsoring the ADLG 15mm Tournament at Recon 2025

We were approached once more to offer sponsorship prizes for the winner and runner ups at this year’s Recon 2025 convention. We were happy to do so with early Medieval packs from our 15mm range.  For those who are able to and are keen to attend here at the details.

The ADLG (Art de la Guerre) 15mm Feudal/Medieval Tournament is happening on April 26th Saturday from 9:00am to 17:50pm.  It will be a 200AP event of a total of Three rounds. The scale being played is 15mm.  You should bring a table mat and terrain as well when attending. The armies eligible are from 1000 AD to 1540 AD from the lists in the ADLG rulebook.

Venue: Wyndham Orlando Resort & Conference Center/ Celebration, 3011 Maingate Ln, Kissimmee, FL 34747, USA

You can learn more about the Recon Convention on its WEBSITE.  If you decide to attend look for the ADLG Tournament on the Saturday and ask for Tom when you reach the room.

We supplied ME4 MI Foot Soldier, ME7 Lt Med Bowman and MEC5 Teutonic Knight 13th Century packs for the prizes.  All the miniatures are singles on our website with lots to choose from.

Thanks for your time.

L’Art de LaGuerre Tournament (Recon 2024) sponsored by Alternative Armies - Updated

It is our pleasure to have given prizes from the 15mm Isarus Dark Age Range to the chaps organising the Biblical to 1000AD tournament at this years HMGS South Recon 2024 convention in the USA.

Prizes for first and second place with our compliments.  Here are the details of the convention as it relates to the L’Art de LaGuerre Tournament and we think there are still places to be taken in play currently sixteen players but could be more. Follow these external links for more information and to register.  Pictures are from the club’s own game.  This year is the first L’Art de LaGuerre Tournament to be held and we wish them the best of fortune.

L'ART DE LaGUERRE Tournament

Saturday APR. 27th, 2024

Wyndham Orlando Resort & Conference Center Celebration Area

3011 Maingate Lane, Kissimmee, Florida USA

16 Players Biblical to 1000 AD 200 pts 

For More Information on RECON 2024 – HMGS-South go online HERE.

RECON 2024 – HMGS-South

This link will allow those interested to register and book a hotel room too if they desire.  

The Results

The tournament happened on 27th April and Tom was kind enough to send some pictures of the day which are shown here.  The prizes were given out and everyone was most pleased.

Click on the images to enlarge

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If you play the Medieval period then we have the Medus Range of Western and Eastern EuropeMedus Range of Western and Eastern Europe including Hussite War Wagon and Artillery suitable in 15mm scale.

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If you play the Ancient and Dark Age periods then we have the Arabs, Late Romans, Byzantines, Vikings and many others suitable in 15mm scale.

Thank you for your attention.

GBS

Bakewell Winter Warmer DBA Tournament 2023

It was our pleasure to sponsor the lads at Bakewell for their Winter Warmer tournament of DBA. They had a fine turn out and we provided 15mm miniatures as prizes for the winners. Alternative Armies is happy to consider any event for sponsorship and we have resources for several a month if desired. See below for Simon's account of the event and if you are into DBA and its sister systems our historical ranges are well suited to this role. 

 

See the Isarus 15mm Ancient and Dark Age as well as the Medus Medieval Range and the mighty 15mm Renaissance 16th Century range. Over to you Simon! 

 

The theme was “Run for the Hills!”. All armies had to have a home terrain of “Hilly” and the usual terrain placement rules were replaced by a house rule that made sure there were lots of difficult hills to contend with. Players used their own armies on odd rounds and opponent’s on even rounds. There were six rounds in total. 

 

Tournament rankings and armies brought were as follows: 

 

1 Stephen Finn Cilician Armenian IV/2 

2 Mark Skelton Mapuche IV/84a 

3 Pete Duckworth Samurai IV/59a 

4 Richard Pulley South Welsh III/19c 

5 Ken Gordon Guti Revolt I/46 

6 Phil Johnson Lydian I/50 

7 Tom Whitehead Thracian I/48 

8 Colin O’Shea Cilician Armenian IV/2 

9 Andy Wheeldon Celtiberian II/39 

10 Simon Wilson Dacian II/52 

11 Keith Murphy Samurai IV/59a 

12 Mark Johnson Dacian II/52 

13 Paul Murgatroyd Illyrian I/47 

14 Robert Rush Guti Revolt.1/46 

15 Baldie Paionian I/63 

16 Neil Mason Guti Revolt 1/46 

17 John Saunders Early Japanese Yahoi 1/64a 

18 Stevie Andrews Dacians II/52 

 

Stephen was overall winner and took home the prize of several packs of 15mm Renaissance figures kindly donated by Alternative Armies. Details of other DBA Tournaments can be found HERE on Fanaticus.

 

 

Names of players for the team photograph are: 

 

Back row left to right: Stephen Finn (Winner), Stevie Andrews, Pete Duckworth, Ken Gordon, Rob Rush, Richard Pulley, Baldie, Colin O’Shea, Andy Wheeldon, Paul Murgatroyd, 

 

Front row left to right: Phil Johnson, Mark Skelton, Neil Mason, Tom Whitehead, Mark Johnson. Keith Murphy 

 

Thanks for the support!

Tabletop Fun June 2022

Across the world and the internet tabletop gamers, collectors, painters and players show off their miniatures and models bought from us or from our stockists such as Noble Knight Games. While the vast majority of these pass us by sometimes a kindly soul will show us their hobby results. Click on each picture on our blog to make it larger. 

 

 

In this round up are six such results ranging from 15mm Historicals to 15mm Science Fiction, to The Ion Age as well as Flintloque and 28mm Fantasy. Where possible names and links have been provided and in each case a link to the website is present. Enjoy! 

 

 

Tim Cook's Banneret of the Fleet! Tim painted up this 28mm Ion Age Miniature (IA002 in IB1 Retained Knights pack) as a Varlet Standard for his collection. He took several attempts at it but told us that he is happy with the effects and the basing he achieved. We agree! 

 

 

The Failed Apprentice painted by Heroic Miniatures (see them on Instagram) a one piece miniature CA1-05 from The Wizard's Progress pack. Painted in a night time dead flesh scheme using Vallejo colours to be a Necromancer's aide perhaps. He gives more details on his account. But yuck! That really works. 

 

 

The gallant South Mordor Regiment by Dances with Gnomes (see him on Instagram) his Slaughterloo Orc Line Unit using a photo editing program. One of the more famous regiments in the Army of Albion in a fierce battle with Armorican Elves and Diberian Werewolves. Featuring a scratch built Sergeant Obidiah speaking into his shako you can have your own unit with 54503 Orc Line including an officer and colour party. 

 

 

Cai-Z popped up on the mighty 15mm Science Fiction group on Facebook and kindly permitted the use of this picture from his growing collection. HOF155 Dominator Sphere on the attack amid a lovely looking landscape. All those limbs will give anyone a hard time in combat! 

 

Wargrunt Art (find them on Facebook) recently increased their 15mm historical forces with elements of Visigoths taken from our Isarus Dark Age Goths range. Lovely work on these and we often do not see these painted up. We hear he is now working on a Hun Army too. 

 

 

This just in by Tony Aguilar for his DBA Army of the Konstantinian Byzantine list two stands of mounted Norman Knights. Lovely stuff and restored Tabletop Games 15mm range you can see in the Israrus pages of the website. Tony has added artillery and infantry to his army and it is looking very strong. 

 

Thank you for your time! 

 

GBS

Bakewell DBA Tournament 2022 prizes from Alternative Armies

It was our pleasure to sponsor with prizes the resumed annual DBA tournament held by the Bakewell Club in England.  Our thanks to Simon for the following account and photos.  If you are interested in 15mm Dark Age miniatures see the website (Blemye were the prizes from us) and go to the Fanaticus Boards if you are keen on knowing more.  Over to you Simon!

Eighteen players turned up for the Bakewell Blinded by the Lights tournament yesterday and it was also good to see some new faces in Bakewell, particularly those who had travelled a long way such as from Kent and Worcester.  The above photo is from the tournament in progress and the other is winner of the grand prize Pete Duckworth giving thumbs up and that is me on the right! Congratulations to winner Pete Duckworth who went away with some Blemye 15mm figure packs kindly provided by Gavin at Alternative Armies. Thanks for your sponsorship.

Very close runners up were Mark Johnson and Rob Rush in 2nd and 3rd places respectively.

The Blind General rule was in play, whereby your opponent threw your PIPS dice and didn't let you know how many you had until you ran out. There was also a tournament requirement that only two elements in an army could have base combat factors of 4 or more and so there were some interesting armies on the tables.

Out of the 54 games, 47 were win/lose, 5 were winning draws and 2 were level draws.

Rankings:

1.  Pete Duckworth        III/55   Early Samurai

2.  Mark Johnson           III/70  Tuerag

3.  Rob Rush                 IV/42  Islamic Persian

4.  Neil Mason               IV/60  Catalan Company

5.  Mark Skelton            I/8c    Dilmun

6.  Neil Alexander          II/49  Anatolian Turkoman

7.  Phil Johnson             II/14  Ariarathid Kappadokian

8.  Arnaud Marmier        III/55 Early Samurai   

9.  Colin Alcock              II/57  Later Moorish

10. Tom Whitehead        III/29  Thematic Byzantine

11. Martin Smith            I/35b  Phoenician

12. Stevie Andrews        II/47f  Suevi

13. John Saunders         II/69a  Sassanid

14. Tim Rogers              II/14  Ariarathid Kappadokian

15. Stephen Finn           I/8b  Makkan

16. Pete Davis               III/40  Norse Irish

17. Pete James              III/18  Breton

18. Paul Murgatroyd       III/29  Thematic Byzantine

The Isarus range contains many different 15mm scale nations including Arabs (recently remastered and new pictures) and Blemye as well as Goths, Sarmations, Byzantines, Vikings, Saxons, Mongols, Normans, Huns, Artillery and Late Romans.  All single miniatures or small sets great for any game system.

If you have a tournament and would like to approach us for sponsorship we are happy to speak to you.  Contact sales@alternative-armies.com and tell us your event, address and other useful information.  We can offer prizes for historical, fantasy, science fiction events and we like to encourage the hobby.

Thanks for Reading,

GBS

Arabs 15mm dark age new pictures remastered camels and command

The Isarus range (originally the 1980's Tabletop Games 15mm Range) of dark age and ancient historical miniatures contains many armies in 15mm scale.  Selucid, Sarmation, Blemye, Goth, Hun, Mongol, Viking, Saxon plus Byzantine and the Late Roman.  

Excellently affordable single castings of infantry and cavalry plus small command sets, elephants and artillery.  We have re-mastered several Arab codes in the range and have new better pictures of all the Arab codes. Go HERE for the range.

There are eleven poses of infantry including command, sword, archer, spear and slinger.

Fifteen poses of cavalry including three pose command, two camels and armoured horses and riders.

Thank you for your support and we hope you enjoy these newly updated classic figures.

GBS

Isarus 15mm historical on Colonel Campbells blog

With kind permission from Jim Pitt over in the United States of America we are delighted to present some pictures and links to his painted up Isarus miniatures to be used in medieval wargaming.  You can see the range HERE which covers Arabs, Byzantines, Late Romans, Goths, Huns, Sassanids, Sarmations and other nations and lands.

Above are Byzantine heavy cavalry with lance and with bow as well as mounted command from codes BYC3, BYC4 and BYC8.  The figures can be used for any game system of course and these are based for the 'Command and Colours Medieval Rules' as stated on Colonel Cambell's blog. 

Arab Cavalry above making ready to take to the table.  There are three blog posts to look at if you click through.

Cavalry and Infantry – Colonel Campbell

Even More Cavalry – Colonel Campbell

And More Arab Cavalry – Colonel Campbell

If you have pictures of miniatures made by us and wish to show them to the team please make contact on sales@alternative-armies.com and we will be pleased to take a gander.  

Thanks for Reading,

GBS