Augustus to Aurelian & Dux Britanniarum - Game Markers & Cards

New markers from Warbases and Big Red Bat Shop

Progress continues with preparation for a shift of focus onto the Dacian Wars collection with some new markers for Augustus to Aurelian (A to A) rules.

To key states of a units order need to be indicated, namely when they become disordered and shaken and I wanted my markers to be clear and impactful so I can use them to help tell the story of the game with the pictures I use.

The 'Disorder' marker is from Simon Miller's useful range of markers he has produced for his 'Too the Strongest' rule-set and works well alongside the 'Shaken' marker from Warbases with a similar jagged edged border to help emphasise the impact.

https://bigredbatshop.co.uk

One other key aspect with A to A is to indicate when a legionary unit has used its pilum in combat and I have been looking around for a suitable marker and Simon came up trumps yet again with his shock markers using a pilum motif that was easily adapted for my own planned use.

My completed activation chits for A to A

I have now completed a set of Roman and Barbarian red on blue chits available from Sally 4th and was really pleased with how they came out once coloured up. I just have to finish off a duplicate set, colours reversed for Roman v Roman and Barbarian v Barbarian match ups.

And finally I have been looking around for suitable rules to cover some of the smaller raid type games to use with my Roman/Dacian collection and so I put together some suitably adjusted Dux Britanniarum cards to try them out at some stage.

With Victrix announcing pre-orders for their first Legionary box set this week, I am really looking forward to getting this collection motoring.

Vikings!!

Yesterday was spent very happily getting stuck into a large Dark Ages game at the Devon Wargames Group.

If you would like to see how things turned out, just follow the link to the DWG blog

A Ravens Feast at Littleham Cross

The end of year big game is a traditional event in the club where we usually run three separate games at each meeting to cater for all comers.

However with the Season of Goodwill to All Men fast approaching we like to come together for one last game of the year and go large on the table, figures, mince pies and other goodies that are needed to support a large army on campaign.

You will have seen Saxons prepared by myself and Tom, together with Viking leaders and Scots as part of Mr Steve's contribution and now I can present Steve M's Vikings of which these are a small sample as he has been very busy in recent weeks producing his pagan host.

These chaps together with the others featured were all in action yesterday and I think we will be playing quite a few more games with these chaps going forward.

Nice work Steve.

Fun and games at the Devon Wargames Group

Since the summer Tom and I have been working on Dark Age figures to contribute to the big end of year game at the Devon Wargames Group.

Yesterday was a play-test of the Dux Brittaniarum rules we have chosen to use for our game.

These are just a sample of the pictures I gathered of the members collections out on the table and they give you an idea of the look of our game next month.

Needless to say much fun was had by all so if you would like to see more then just follow the link to the club blog.

http://devonwargames.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/a-gathering-of-ravens-at-littleham.html