A change of heart

I guess the circle is closed now - I've started with a blog, transfered to a normal webpage, moved back to the blogg with the intention of maintaining one blog per ruleset... and realised that it would be too much work. So now I've changed the name of the blogg, so I can cover all of my wargaming activities here.

Why Warhammer Ancient Battles?

My WAB project was started more or less by coincidence or rather for several, quite different reasons. First of all, I’ve been drooling over those gorgeous transfer decals from Little Big Men Studios for quite some time. I really wanted to have a reason to use them for something.

Then, some time last year, a friend of mine expressed interest in kicking off new project, preferably in the ancient or dark age period. He’s an old Wahammer and Epic player, so Warhammer Historical was a natural choice of rules for him.

By coincidence I was at that time finishing ‘Winter King’ by Bernard Cornwell. I can’t praise this book enough – marvelous story of King Arthur in historical setting, colorful heroes and villains and great battle descriptions. A wargamer needs much less for inspiration to start a new painting project. Before I knew, Hakan and I were placing our first order for miniatures from Gripping Beast. I’ve selected Romano-British as my army, while Hakan went for the Saxons.

That’s been about six months ago. Since then the project has progressed slowly, but steadily and I now have two infantry units ready for battle, while much needed reinforcements in form of heavy cavalry unit is progressing very nicely. In coming days I intend to post couple of pictures of those miniatures.

Blogg, homepage and blogg again

Tempted by multitude of bloggs about tabletop wargaming hobby, sometime in 2005 I've decided to start my own blogg in connection with the start of my ACW project. After a while I've decided that despite the convenience, bloggs were somewhat limited medium and I've launched a 'real' website, called Minondas Corner. It's been great fun and the site is still there, but unfortunately real life intervened in form of new job, which significantly limited my leisure time. As a result, Minondas' Corner hasn't been updated for a very long time.

However, the wish to write an occasional article and show off some painted miniatures is still there. So it's time to go back to Blogger, although this time I intend to take baby steps. This time I intend to concentrate on one rule system per blogg. As the name indicates, main focus of this blogg will be on Warhammer Ancient Battles.