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March 30, 2008
Ancient Update
The recent release of Field of Glory (FoG) has kicked the local gaming scene into an Ancient mood. In addition to a playtest of FoG (see last blog entry), Chris and I have also played a game of Armati II (same Romans vs Carthaginians setup) which I'll have an AAR/Review up shortly. Now I have bought a 15mm Xyston Pyrrhic army from Brookhurst (they are having a Xyston sale), and Chris bought a Corvus Belli Carthaginian army . We'll both be busy with these guys and in the mean time we'll be doing any playing with counters.
A brief note re 15mm: I got out of that scene a while back (sold all my 15mm Italian War, Han Chinese, etc.) mainly for lack of good rules and the fact that the 15mm figures just don't look that good. That has changed with Xyston, since they have the modern 25mm quality, carefully shrunken to a 15mm (more like 18mm) frame. They look great painted up using my block paint/magic dip painting style. Some pictures will be up shortly after my move is complete.
Another reason I went with 15mm is that the local scene for Ancients is almost exclusively 15mm (many are jazzed by FoG and are dusting up their old Ancient army, or building new ones, the local store even started carring Xyston inventory). I am forseeing 2008 as the year of the Ancients*
One problem with 15mm is that other than Xyston, not many others comes close to that standard (the new comer Splintered Light Miniatures comes close). I will probably go gaga if anyone ever comes out with Xyston quality figs for the Crusades period.
*I am also catching the ww2 bug, see next post....
Posted by msoong at March 30, 2008 02:07 PM
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