Midgard at Hammerhead

This weekend, I assumed my role as 'Chum' and joined the Morris and Chums game at Hammerhead wargames show in Newark. 

We've been playtesting James' 'Midgard' rules for a little while now, and used them to put on a Dark Ages Picts v Saxons battle  - all of James creation, all we did really was turn up, chat to people and roll some dice!

I have enjoyed in recent months creating some 3D printed rulers for the game, and knocking up a cover for the draft rules (just a placeholder until proper arty people get involved!) which James used for the T shirts this weekend.

Find out a lot more about Midgard, and a full account of the game, over on James blog.

Some pictures from day:

And just a few of the many other games from the day:

Nick Skinner's (Toofatlardies) lovely Dutch table

Mark Backhouse was showcasing 'Strength and Honour' - 2mm ancient battles

Steve Metheringhams wonderful Old School SYW toys

Ego Pugno! Painting Gladiators for Sons of Mars

Many (many) years ago, I picked up a neat little pre-painted set of gladiators from EM4.. they came with a poster-style fold out arena, some special dice and a set of gladiator rules.. all of which I never used. 

More recently, I grabbed a copy of 'Sons of Mars' gladiator rules and a couple of packs of the Crusader gladiators from North Star when Nick had some kind of an offer on. Within days of purchase I suspected that I'd never use these either.. not because they're not any good.. but because I don't need another project and when am I ever going to play gladiators?

Anyway, the other day for some reason I decided to get them out and try the rules out. Turns out that for solo games, they're quite good.. and the campaign looks quite good too. So, I decided to paint up the Crusader minis. 

Rather than paint them in my usual way, I also thought I'd have a go at trying to match the style of the EM4 prepainted minis.. not a technique I've ever really used, and maybe a little old school these days, but I fancied the challenge. Overall, I'm quite pleased.. not the way I'd normally paint stuff.. but, despite a bit of size difference, they look like a coherent set and I'm quite looking forward to making a little 'arena', thinking up some daft latin names and playing a few games, even if it's solo.

EGO PUGNO! (the EM4 pre-painted and newly painted Crusader minis  together)