Blood Eagle by The Ministry of Gentlemanly Warfare

The Ministry of Gentlemanly Warfare (authors of In Her Majesty's Name and Daisho) have started a Facebook page for their upcoming Viking skirmish game, Blood Eagle, due out sometime next year!

From the Facebook page:

"This has been set up to allow the designers and future players to discuss the game while it is still in development. 

Blood Eagle is a new project by the Ministry of Gentlemanly Warfare, using the core rules from In Her Majesty's Name and Daisho to allow people to play games in the legendary 9th and 10th centuries in Northern Europe."

Intended for warbands of around a dozen or so figures with 3 or 4 characters and several warriors, the game will include the mythical side of things. A provisional list of warbands includes: Danish Warbands, Frankish Patrols, Hiberno-Norse, Frost Giants, Irish Chieftains, Lord Uhtred, Jomsvikings, Pictish Raiders, Saxon Eorls, Scandinavian Jarls, Viking Raiders, Welsh Warbands and Heroes of Legend! 

I am very much looking forward to this! And I love the Angus McBride pic...

Manual of Monsters - Otherworld Fantasy Skirmish

In case you haven't seen this on the Otherworld Fantasy Skirmish Facebook page, the Manual of Monsters is due out early 2016. I've also heard there are plans for a campaign book later on in the year. Things are definitely looking good for fantasy skirmish!

Thoth Amon - Otherworld Fantasy Skirmish Faction

Thoth Amon with his thralls...dressed for the colder climes of Hyperborea!

A few days ago I posted up a Conan Faction for Otherworld Fantasy Skirmish...well, again using just the Otherworld Fantasy Skirmish rules, here is his nemesis. Behold...the villainous Thoth Amon!

Total Cost of Faction: 232 GP

The coming of Strange Aeons!

This arrived in the post yesterday! I know...yet another game to add to this year's rapidly growing pile! But one of the beauties of Strange Aeons is that it has a solo play option so I should be able to get the odd game in when the kids are at school! I've not had a chance to do much more than flick through the rules as yet but I believe I should also be able to use my existing In Her Majesty's Name figures to play a Victorian version of Strange Aeons...so a game of this might happen sooner rather than later! Huzzah!

Conan and Valeria - Otherworld Fantasy Skirmish Faction

I'm a big fan of Crooked Dice's 7th Voyage and so picked up Otherworld Fantasy Skirmish as soon as it was available. And I wasn't disappointed! The great thing about Otherworld is that you can pretty much make any sort of faction you want especially if you use it in conjunction with 7th Voyage and its supplements.

Just to show how easy it is, I've come up with a Faction using just the Otherworld Fantasy Skirmish rules. Behold..Conan and Valeria!

Conan and Valeria

Nestor and two Gundermen

Total Cost of Faction: 237

Next time I shall have a go at an evil faction...Thoth Amon? Thulsa Doom?

Into the Ruins - A Frostgrave Battle Report

My son and I had our first game of Frostgrave last weekend. My son was a bit taken aback when I killed his wizard in the first turn with a critical hit and for the next round or two he was consequently a bit overcautious...which I took  full advantage of! But my sneaky son managed a draw despite being my being fairly confident I'd actually win it right up until the end! It was great fun...brutal and action-packed, just the way we like it!

Anyway, without further ado here is the Battle Report...

Here's a Dropbox Link and a Google Drive Link to an easier-to-read PDF version.

All miniatures were painted for me by the inimitable Matt Slade of Glenbrook Games. The terrain is mainly Battlefield-in-a-Box stuff with some aquarium decoration trees and a few bits of scatter terrain made by my own fair hand!

First Game of Frostgrave!

They boy and I had our first game of Frostgrave this afternoon. And we loved it! Fast-paced and full of action...lots of fun. I'll do a proper AAR sometime over the next week but in the meantime I thought I'd post a few pics of the ruins of Frostgrave...

...and the two wizards with their warbands!

Black Angus the Necromancer with his apprentice, Magaidh, the barbarian brothers, Fingal and Connor, and the ranger, Hamish.

Arzhel the Elementalist with his apprentice, Sterenn, the knight, Marrec, the templar, Tristan, and the marksman, Alan.