Mare Nostrum Hail Caesar Campaign - first trial game played

Classic Battle: 

Macedonian (successors) vrs. Late Ach. Persians!

After two weeks of traveling with family in search of VIKINGS, I was itching to get back into painting and gaming! Reading the latest WI had heated me up for the coming Club Hail Caesar Campaign: Mare Nostrum (in Finnish) and for putting together some figures for the Three Musketeers (see a separate post / project page for that).

beating retreating French in Denmark

A few days back, I had the nice opportunity to visit a fellow blogger Kaspar in Struer Denmark. We had fast Paced game of his adapted version of Muskets & Tomahawks: 1812 Retreat from Moscow.

Since I'm traveling with family, I'll link Kaspar's report here:

http://londonbymidnight.blogspot.fi/2015/07/1812-retreat-from-moscow-battle-report.html

Saga: Crescent & Cross - Siege scenario & battle reports

Saga SIEGE!

We've now played siege twice with simple enough scenario and few extra rules. Read further to learn how it worked out. You're most welcome to copy the concept of course!

Crescent & Cross campaign to be concluded today!

Siege!

Fire!!!

This is  something I've been planning to do for a long time: fire and smoke for our battle fields

"Building" a demolished castle wall section

As part of our excellent Saga: Crescent & Cross -campaign we played a big team game last weekend in Ropecon. The game was a team game of 2 vs. 2, where us, the attacking saracens had 2 X 6 point Saga-warbands and the defenders had 2 X 4 point armies - and the castle.

It was really a great game (see plenty of pictures in Mika's blog here) and since we demolished a wall section in it, I just had to build (= demolish) one. Now I'm hoping to be able to use it soon.

I'll probably write a report about the game as well, but this blog is about constructing that piece of scenery.

Brother in arms has fallen

This week a truly sad message reached our Nopat-gaming community. Sami K., one of our most active club members and a true wargaming enthusiast had suddenly died on a heart failure in his home. Sami was only around 30 years and we all find it so hard to believe his gone. In this post is a mortuar that I wrote for him to our club's website. It's in Finnish.

Rest in Peace Sami