Category: Ancients

Society Meeting 10/10/2026

Andy rounds up last weekend’s Society meeting.

This week, let’s go in increasing order of model size.

First up Peter put on a 2mm Ancients game using Strength & Honour rules, Rome vs the Germanic Hordes.

The Germanic hordes close on the Roman Legions
Three Roman Legions, some with skirmishers, and a cavalry Ala engage four Germanic warbands
The Vangiones approach the 7th Legion

Staying in the Ancient world, but going up in size we have a mixed 6mm vs 15mm Field of Glory game between Hellenistic Greeks (6mm) and Carthaginians (15mm). It looks slightly odd but we use the same size bases for 6m and 15mm FoG games, just with 3 to 4 times more figures on the 6mm bases.

Greek Psiloi (6mm)
Carthaginian Psiloi (15mm)

Carthaginians turn the flank of the Greeks

Carthaginian Cavalry
Battle is joined

Up to more modern(ish) times with David and Alan playing a 15mm WW2 game using War on the Ground rules (including the header picture above).

A lonely Sherman passes the farm
German troops take up position.
A US team advance cautiously…
…little do they know what awaits them!

And finally, into the far future, Jeremey ran a 28mm Stargrave mission for Tony, Mike and Andy. Two scientists had made an unauthorised trip to planed Delos. The regional government wanted them, and what they knew, back and offered a reward for their return, alive only, willing or otherwise.

Planet Delos – The Scientists’ shuttle and camp.
Andy’s new crew, fresh from the painting table, so destined for horrible death.
Mike’s crew
Andy’s Captain and a couple of troopers engaged by some Delosian fauna.
Andy’s crew spread out past their fallen comrade, Some of Tony’s crew can be seen in the distance fighting a giant wasp.
Mike’s crew at the Scientists’ camp, about to seize one of the Scientists who has been incapacitated.
A close up of the “Jellyfish”, some plastic aquarium “plants”.

That completes the round up, details of games at society meetings can be found on our diary here.

Society Meeting 22/08/2026

Andy shares a few photos from the games at the latest meeting.

A very good turnout for this meeting with five games in progress.

We open with a WW2 Operation Sealion game, using 28mm figures and Chain of Command rules put on by Alan K.

Above we have the view from the German end of the table.

The British helpfully make sure the Germans can read the minefield signs,
A break in the cloud cover as a German section approaches the minefield. Have they noticed the signs?
British regulars take position behind a hedge.
The Local Defence Volunteers occupy some hasty defence positions.
A couple of German tanks fall victim to the LDV’s improvised anti tank weapons, a Northover Projector and a Fougasse (one of the German players apparently noticed the oil drums under a hedge at the T junction, but didn’t mention it to his colleagues!).

Tony P and some of the FOG regulars ran a 6mm Ancients game.

Ancient battle lines
A lot of members use 6mm figures on the same size bases intended for 15mm figures, this lets you depict formations such as the cavalry wedge.
The main battle, looks like both sides had some good die rolls.
A cavalry clash

Stephen and Andy concluded their “Lackland Goes North” Barons’ War campaign. A write up to follow (eventually).

Angus Balfour and his highlanders, including Father Ninian. Part of Stephen’s army.
Some of Baron Andrew’s Mounted Sergeants charge to finish off some Highland Rabble after they’ve been decimated by his crossbows.
Laird McTook’s troops approach the river bank
Laird McTook, who appears to have forgotten his horses!
Baron Andrew’s deputy Lord Eric charges Laird McTook’s knights (although on foot these were treated as mounted, simply because Stephen forgot to being his cavalry box)/

Peter M ran one of his Victorian Sci Fi games, the Earther invasion of Mars, using some wonderful kitbashed / scratch built 6mm flying ships.

Martian and Earther flyers cross over a Martian city
A close up of one of Peter’s magnificent flyers.
Two Martian flyers in convoy
A Russian Flyer passes a Martian City
A selection of Peter’s flyers.

And last, but by no means least, David S and Chris S ran an Infinity 28mm SciFi game. They made a lot of their scenery from domestic waste materials.

David & Chris built most of their scenery from waste material, including packaging, straws and bottle tops.
David’s troops (I think) in their bright orange suits. +1 to hit?
More of the Dayglo warriors
Your first mistake, mate, was to come out from behind the plastic straw pipework. And it may well be your last.

That’s all for this week.

Three weeks until the next meeting, you can see what’s on on our diary page.

Society meeting 8th August 2026

Andy rounds up the games at a recent society meeting.

Only one historical game at the society at this meeting, a Fields Of Glory clash between Alexandrian Macedonians and Later Selucid armies using 6mm figures.

A pike block appears over the crest of a hill
Aerial view of the battle lines
Light troops clash on one flank

We welcomed a contingent of South London Warlords members who came down to help society member Peter (who has “dual nationality” as it were) to run a couple of Sci Fi games based on the 1970’s TV series UFO.

Some of our guests from the South London Warlords

The first game is set in space, where SHADO Lunar Interceptors, guided by S.I.D. (the Space Intruder Detector), attempt to locate and destroy alien UFOs before they can land on Earth.

The space game table with a row of alien UFOs
Close up of a UFO
A Lunar Interceptor releases its missile.
Lunar Interceptors, S.I.D., a UFO and a transport ship
Not sure how Skydiver got into space?

Unfortunately, some of the UFOs always seem to elude the space borne defenders, which means the SHADO ground forces need to hunt them down and eliminate them.

SHADO mobile units search for the aliens.
“Spread out and search”
A group of aliens

The hexagonal tiles are laid as the SHADO mobile units explore, so the SHADO operatives never know what they are about to encounter.

Last, but by no means least, the Quar enthusiasts, and a newbie, tried out the Clash of Rhyfles rules again.

Andy’s Crusader contingent on the march, figures loaned by Tony & Phil.
Stephen’s Croftyrans
Andy’s Crusaders advance to the blasted woods
Jeremey’s Gwyntish contingent (in red) dispute ownership of the ruins with Phil’s Crusaders, supported by a tractor.
The sad end to Andy’s contingent.
But it wasn’t totally one sided, the Croftyrans also took casualties. Slightly out of focus at the rear in white is Stephen’s musician, Private Maurice Dancer
Off to one side, the Croftyran camp, not a game objective but Quarnest Hemingway (in white, typing at the table) serves as a Pluck counter.
The Gwynt contingent’s scatter gun lets loose.
Gwynt also fielded a tractor, a recent kitbash by Jeremey

That’s all for this week.

You can see upcoming games in our diary.

Society Meeting 25th April 2026

Andy presents a taster of the games at the last meeting. Five, count them, five, games in progress!

Let’s have a look at them in historical order:

First up we have a mixed scale (6mm & 15mm) Field of Glory Game. Apologies to the players, I only took one photo of this.

Battle lines are drawn

Next up Stephen & Andy concluded their three game Barons War mini campaign. Totally unbiased reports of these games to follow.

Baron Stephen le Tookere’s troops prepare to defend the Trebuchet.
Sir Andrew’s troops close in on Baron Stephen le Tookere’s Trebuchet.
The Trebuchet burns! Sir Andrew’s mission accomplished.

Moving to more recent history, Chairman Mark ran a 28mm Chain of Command game, Operation Bluecoat, Normandy 1944.

The outskirts of a village in Normandy 1944.
The curse of a freshly painted model making its debut, KO’ed early in the game!
Churchills support the British advance

Next we had a game of AK47 Reloaded, more 15mm mayhem in 1970s San Guano. A rare outing for this ruleset at the Society.

Infantry take cover as an APC burns.
Militia defend the factory
Heavy Armour (for AK47)

And last, but by no means least, Tony & Jeremey tried out Grimdark Future Mass Battle rules with their collection of 15mm armies.

Jeremey’s forces deploy
Tony’s Jenpalo seize the junction
One of Jeremey’s tanks is about to get a surprise!
A clash in the Technoliths

That’s all for this time, next meeting is on the 9th of May, you can see Society diary here.

Society Meeting 11/04/2026

With all of the Society’s blog editors at Salute, Stephen steps up to the plate with a short report on the games played at the Society meeting last weekend.

At the club today we had four games. Since it was also the day of Salute, club meetings tend to have fewer attending due to the fact that some members will be at Salute. (Ed: See a report on the Salute trip and the Award received here).
First up, we have a game of FoG. This is a stalwart game of the club and at most meetings there will be a game on the go. The FoGgers got in two games. In the first one it was the Romans having a bust up with the Carthaginians and in the second it was those same Romans (they’re a chippy bunch, eh?) taking a pop at some Seleucids.
The Hand Of God
Fragmented. But aren’t we all?
Dave and Pete had a game of General d’Armee – a Napoleonic game. I’m sure I was told it was Prussians and Bavarians, but I might have got it wrong. Dave is a keen Napoleonicist (is that a word? It is now) and there were loads of figures on the table.
Prussians or Bavarians? (Ed: Prussians I think)
Or Is Bavarians or Prussians (Ed: Bavarians this time)
Next up we have two Saga games.
John and Bob had a couple of games with Norse Gaels and Anglo-Saxons. I believe this was Bob’s first go with Saga and from what I heard he experienced the Norse Gaels’ shocking ability to dish out some damage.
Anglo Saxons Dreading The Inevitable Charge
Norse Gaels On The Razz
Tony G and myself also had a game of Saga. Having recently read a book on William II I thought the rebellion of Bishop Odo in 1088 would make a good one-day campaign. So we played three linked games. The winner of each would decide who would be attacker and defender in the next scenario. The campaign winner would be the one who scored the most total Victory Points.
(Ed: The picture at the top of the post “Burn Tonbridge, Burn” is from this series of games).
Making Way Across Aylesford Bridge
Bit Of A Long Distance Lob Shot
Modesty prevents me from saying who won…
(Ed: I think we can guess Stephen! We should be back to the WIP Wednesday posts from next week.)

Society Meeting 28/03/2026

Andy presents a photo round up of this weekend’s games.

Peter M put on a multiplayer 25mm skirmish game set in the Indian Mutiny, 1857 ‘Don’t Lucknow’

No scenery in this game, the grey areas are roads and alleys, white are buildings.

Stephen & Andy started a Barons War mini campaign, “A Most Ignoble Feud.”

Colin & Paul ran a 2mm Strength & Honour game, Late Republican Roman vs Pontic

David P ran a 28mm GdA2 Napoleonics game, Saxons vs Prussians

Eric put on a Classic Battletech game.

That’s all for now.

Society Meeting 28/02/2026

A very delayed pictorial roundup of the last Society meeting of February 2026, due to some IT issues at one of the editors home.

David P ran a General d’Armee 2nd edition  game of French vs Russians in 1813

Tony P ran a mixed scale  FoG Ancients game (both scales use the same base sizes)

Eric ran another episode in his ongoing Shadow of the Dragon Queen D&D campaign, but sadly we have no photos.

Society Meeting 24/01/2026

Andy rounds up last weekend’s society meeting.

Another good turn out for the second meeting of the year, around 20 members were present with 5 games in progress.

First up we have John L running another naval game, this time in the South China Sea with Emperor Ming taking on Li Chee (the Pirate Queen) using Galleys and Galleons rules.

We then move on to David P running a small Chain of Command 2 game, in 20mm, to introduce the rules to a couple of players.

Former Chairman John ran a 6mm Ancient FOG game with multiple players

Current chairman Mark, together with Dave and Chris put on a Legions Imperialis game using masses of tanks etc.

 

And finally Stephen ran the third of his trilogy of 173rd Airborne in Vietnam games, Operation McLain, in 15mm. A write up of this game will be appearing soon.

MWS meet on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month (except the 4th Saturday in December) from 10:00 to 17:00 at Linton Village Hall, south of Maidstone on the A299.

Information about the Society, including directions, can be found here.

The diary of planned games can be found here, this is updated throughout the year so please have a look from time to time.

 

 

A new beginning…

Maidstone Wargames Society held their first meeting of the year on Saturday. This meeting includes our AGM so often has a good turnout.

Around 24 members were in attendance for the meeting. The AGM was, as usual, short, only around 30 minutes. Also, as usual, the existing committee was re-elected without opposition. Despite the chairman’s pleas to be released!

There was also a very good turnout of games, covering a variety of scales, periods of genres, here’s a short photo round up.

John L brought out his 1:1200 Baltic Galleys for some Naval action.

Another naval game, but a few centuries later and under the water rather than on it, Peter M staged a 1:100th Stingray game, “Anything can happen in the next half hour“.

Paul and Colin brought out some 3mm Ancients for some FoG games.

Tony G and Stephen both fielded Anglo-Saxon warbands for some 28mm SAGA games.

Some more recent conflict now, some late WW2 Chain of Command action staged by chairman Mark J with 28mm vehicles and figures.

And last, but by no means least, Tony F and Phil staged a battle from the Lord of the Rings, again in 28mm.

That’s it for the round up of the first meeting of the year.

MWS meet on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month (except the 4th Saturday in December) from 10:00 to 17:00 at Linton Village Hall, south of Maidstone on the A299.

Information about the Society, including directions, can be found here.

The diary of planned games can be found here, this is updated throughout the year so please have a look from time to time.

 

Open Day 2024

Our 2024 Open Day is just over a month away and there has been lots of  progress on this years games. The Open Day is on the 22th June this year. We’re open to the public from 11am – 4pm on the day.

This is a great day to come and see the society in action and maybe throw some dice at one of the various games we will have on the day.

This year we have a good selection of games, which might just be the incentive you need to either get back into the hobby or to find a new home for your own armies and games.

We will have a game of Barons War complete with scratchbuilt castle.

There will be a game of Project Z for some post-apocalypse fun!

The Elephants will be on the rampage in a battle between Romans and Carthaginians

The Soviet/Afghan war will also be covered this year

Along with a big World War 2 battle somewhere in Europe

And last but not least the magical treefolk will be fighting their ancient enemy the rock warriors in an entirely scratchbuilt fantasy game.

Details of where the club meets and location of the Open Day can be found on our About the Society page.