Gamer at the End of Time

  Well much to my surprise I find myself on the top table in the final round of the competition. I am facing Simon Hall who is using Mongol Conquest. We had played a few weeks earlier and Simon had the advantage, how would it turn out in this rematch?

  Day two of Ice & Fire drew my Early Northern Song up against Lee Sanders' Yuan Chinese - lots of Mongol cavalry with Skilled shooting, how would I do ...

  Following on from a satisfying victory over the Khwarasmians in the first game, the Song moved onto to face Early Fatimids in the second game. Read on for details ...

  My newly finished Early Northern Song army made the trip to the Ice & Fire competition at Battlefield Hobbies in Daventry. I was unsure how well it would do, so read on to see what I found out ...

  Here are the lists used at the Ice and Fire MeG competition that took place over the 22nd and 23rd January at Battlefield Hobbies in Daventry. 32 players attended to fight it out with (roughly) non-European armies.

  Last year I wrote a couple of blog articles about my Song army and how I was replacing the figures with ones I felt were more historical. This is a piece about how it turned out.

  A few weeks ago I posted on  Zhao Kuangyin and Peace Through War; an Early Northern Song army - a piece about doing an army that is often seen as a rather poor performer. I commented that I was using figures that were not quite right because " I am not sure anyone does a proper 5 Dynasties/Early Song range anyway.". Well, that prompted me to have a look around and things changed. Read on to find out what ...

  Zhao Kuangyin, aka Song Taizu reunified China at the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period founding the Song dynasty. However, the army of the Song has had a bad press, so why choose to do this army ...

  A blast from the past. Last year Ray Duggins and I played a few games in Ray’s garden under social distancing circumstances – with a festival tent to keep inclement weather off us. We wrote up a couple and posted them to the MeG Facebook page, but I thought it might be worth posting one of them here. Commentary is from both of us.