Blog-46: The battle at the Granicus – 334 BC
At the Joys of Six (link) we are going to do Gaugamela as a participation demo. To prepare for that doing one of the preceding battles of Alexander seemed like a good idea. Get a feel of how those battles work out using The Warrior. It proved a good idea. Not just for seeing how…
Blog-45: Downscaling: The (fictional) combat of Mühldorf, 1633ish
Der Söldner is scale agnostic. 6mm, 10mm, 15mm, 28mm, etc. they all work. But table size, miniature scale, basing sizes, and ground scale must match for a good game. An error I made some time ago. When I designed the rules I mostly played at 15mm scale on the classic 120cmx180cm tabletop. However, at the…
Blog-44: Gaugamela – 331 BC
On July 14th I will be at The Joy of Six (link) in Sheffield, UK. The aim is to showcase The Arguing when… wargame rules at the world’s biggest small-scale wargames show run by Baccus6mm. Together with my Friend Robert I’ll be hosting a Gaugamela participation game. The reason for going to JoS is that…
Blog-43: The second battle of Cremona. 69 AD
Roman civil wars may seem uninteresting from a tabletop miniature-wargaming perspective. Or you might see it as the ultimate scenario to show better tactics making the difference. Either way, the second battle of Cremona, in the year of the three emperors, is interesting and challenging no matter how you look at it. It is a…
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This page contains all the blogs I write on the games as well as the thoughts going into designing a first set of rules
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