Apologies for the brevity of this post but it has just come to my attention that Ilkka Syvänne will be publishing his study of Nikephoros II Phokas in April of this year. I've read all of his The Military History of Late Rome which were mostly impressive; I find myself very much looking forward to the publications of Nikephoros II Phokas, 912–969: The White Death of the Saracens at the end of this month.
Just a very short post with a few snaps of the Middle Imperial Roman vs Early Sassanid WAB game we played last week. I actually jumped in to the second half of the game as I missed the first week so I'm really not qualified to talk you through the battle.
The pictures are nice so on the blog they go!
This little lot, plus more, were due to take part in a display game at a well known wargame show but the game but it does not look like I will be taking part in the game at present. Still, they look quite pretty and although I'm not quite as far as I wanted to be with the units (the painted army consists of one unit of Seleucid Argyraspides and Antigonus the One Eyed!) it would be a shame not to document the miniatures.
My last blue backdrops got wet (printer ink) so I've had to produce some ad hoc backgrounds for the photo's. If anyone knows of a full A4 blue background file anywhere, please do let me know as I'm in desperate need of one as you can see!
Continuing on with our El Cid Campaign and gradually introducing ideas from the WAB Version 1/1.5 El Cid Supplement in bit by bit to add more flavour as the WAB V.2 AoA lists do lack that extra zing the older supplements added to the game!
