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The Key Pages to Navigate This Site : The Best Stuff : New links : general links : associations : Fire & Fury ACW : Lithuania : WW2 Painting : general painting : WW2 History Stuff : medieval history : Vikings : other suppliers : : Spanish Civil War

The Gateway Pages

The most important pages on this site. Accessing them gets you into pretty much all the content on the site:

• The 15mm Manufacturers gallery Well over 1,000 photos of 15mm ancients figures click here;
• Taking Great Photos My Simple guide to taking photos of your miniatures just click here;
• FoG Strategy Guide In a collaboration with MikeK, the FoG Tactical Tips Guide now appears on this site in WIKI format - so you can edit it and share your own FoG experiences with other gamers here;
• FoG Wiki Guides for collecting, painting and using all your FoG armies in a Wiki format you can edit and add to. The FoG Wiki;
• The 10mm Directory : a massive 1000+ photo directory of currently available WW2 and ACW figures and equipment in 10mm scale. Totally searchable, and with the all important comparison photos so you can easily compare different ranges as well.
• The 15mm Directory : a listing of all the 15mm manufacturers I know , with sample pictures of their stuff, details of their ranges, ordering and contact information. 
• The FoG Index : Osprey & Slitherine's Field of Glory. I have lists, tips, links, army guides and downloadable markers all here in one place.
• The ACW Index: Lots of American Civil War content - including battlefield tours, reenactments and reviews of 10mm figures
• The Match Reports Index : I've been writing battle reports of competition games since 1999, and they are all here, complete with photos and analysis. DBM, PBI, FoG and Warmaster Ancients all feature.
• The DBM Lists Page : the best part of 10 years of competition gaming has created a massive resource of ready-made army lists collected from my opponents. Over 300 DBM lists to try.
• The Painting Guides Page :  I have a collection of my own painting guides for 15mm Ancients, 10mm WW2 and 15mm WW2 all here.
• The eBay Pages : This site carries all live UK eBay 15mm, 25mm and 28mm ancients auction listings - updated instantly (no need to log into your ebay account to see whats on offer any more). It also has separate listings for "US eBay" 15mm Ancients, 25mm Ancients and 28mm Ancients.
• Wargamers Island : Some famous, and not-so-famous gamers recommend their 10 favourite books and talk about how they got into the hobby.
• The 15mm FoW WW2 Pages : a massive collection of painted WW2 15mm figures for you to look at. 
• The Pants Page : Wargamers mistakes in great detail.

My Ancient Armies Bookstores & Reference Guides.

Click on any active link below to go to my bookshop, army list depository, brief history and external links page for any of these armies or periods

Site Stuff

Things on this site you really should take a look at:

• Xyston Carthaginiansreviewed here, and new ancient Spanish reviewed here

• DBMM 2.0 click here to see how its left people snookered

• Ideas for improving FoGmaybe they'll make it into V2.0 ? Lets see what happens

• 28mm Thirty Years War Troops painted and they are nearly all plastic Have a look here

• Big Wooden Buildings with WW2 aircraft? See Tilamook Air Museum here

• Ospreys war Elephants book reviewedSee if you want to buy it here

• Do You Keep Rabbitsand also play FoG? Let the world know here

• Xyston Carthaginiansreviewed here

• The Astounding Kubinka Tank Museum in Moscow - Maybe the world's largest collection of armour - I tried to photograph it all ! 

• If you prefer guns to tanks, I've also been to the Russian Artillery Museum in St Petersburg and taken a load of photos, as well as some other military museums and events

• My Blog has several years of occasionally funny stuff stacked up on it by now

• 10mm WW2 - pics of a game at the club of Brits vs Germans

• GIZMOS - this site now has an online instant Wargamers Random Geekspeak Generator. It is the funniest thing in Gaming since Achtung Panzer! 

• GIZMOS - this site now has an online instant Osprey Book Title Generator as well.

• DBM - a 12 year career reduced to mere numbers on the IWF Glicko site!

• CLUB - Central London Now twice weekly

Links internal and External to this site - things you may have missed:

• Miniature Wargaming
• Battle Chronicler free downloadable game map generating programme.

Free Wargames Resources

• T35 in 15mm ish scale ! 

• My Blog

• Leave me Feedback 

• DBR 2.0 List Generator - work out all those tricky ME s in a trice !

• Central London Club Page 

• Pictures of Tin Soldier Elephants, Mirliton medieval mounted and some rocket launchers

• My online games page

• A Scotsman never sleeps...

• Berlins Luftwaffen Museum

• Belgrade Castle - pictures of WW2 tanks on static display

• Terry Shaw in Action

• A recently discovered historical document from the Alexandrian Era

• Pictures of Egyptians good enough to be used by the figure manufacturer themselves

• "Who's The Daddy Trophy 2003" Winner Announced 

• Cretan Archers - find out more here 

•  Lenin in Italy

• More Photos from Greece

• US Army Ordnance Museum

• Funny Alexander the Great Joke for Wargamers

• The Pants Race.. amazing, truly amazing

• Nik Gaugrokkkeerrs site - well, he links to me, so why not return the favour!

• British Historical Games Society (BHGS)

• Athens Wargames society

• A History of the Ukraine

• David Kuijit's Home pages about medieval DB-X armies (brilliant!)

• The Mystery Link - have fun.....

• Table Top Tactics  The Table Top Tactics site is another new aspiring portal, to provide information on clubs, conventions, news, vendors, etc. Apparently also they are building game engines to provide free on-line miniatures wargames - which would be nice! 

• Gladiator Games - Great Biblicals, really cool Crusader and Arab ranges

• Lancashire Games site - inexpensive figures online - their camelry are particularly good value, and the 15mm Moghul/Western Frontier stuff is very nice indeed

• Museum Miniatures - the best 15mm  knights in the business (especially the dismounted ones) and some great Mongol Cavalry as well are the pick of the bunch for me. A great site as well, with lots of pictures.

Assoc & Comps etc

• SW DBM Doubles League page 

• Attack! Devizes

• British Wargames - favorite and special links

• Burton & District Wargames Club

• DBM-DBR world Championship - Rome 2004

• Fanaticus -- Virtual Community for DBx Gamers

• Fanaticus' DBA Resource Page

• HMGS East

• http--www.freewargamesrules.co.uk-

• Richard Bodley Scott's Wargames Page

• STRATEGIKON of Athens

• Switzerland Grandson Competition

• Table Top Tactics

• Warfare

Fire & Fury ACW Rules

• http--www.geocities.com-coachkropp-acw.html

• ZOUAVE MAGAZINE

Lithuania

• Lithuania Academic and Research Network Litnet (MII Computers Networks Laboratory) server

• Polish Heraldry

• Samogitia

Medieval History Links

• Bryde's Medieval and Goodies Website

• CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Vilna

• Crusader States, Naples and Sicily

• Culture-Czech and Slovak

• FRANCIA

• Free Coats of Arms Coats of Arms for Surnames World-Wide

• Historic Atlas Resource - Europe

• Historical Maps of Europe

• Medieval Clip Arts

• ORB The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

• Rome and Romania, 27 BC-1453 AD

• Tanenberg Flags

• Teutonic Order

Painting Resources

WW2

• Army generica Obscure WW2 armies 

• British WW2 Brits painted 

• Drybrushing Detailed ww2 painting guide from germany

• Field Uniforms of the British 1st Airborne Division Living History Association

• Figure Painting More WW2 painting guides

• ITALIAN FRONT GROUP  Re-enactment supplies and other goodies for WW2

• Painting WW2 German figures One of the best and most practical guides to WW2 Germans I have yet found

• Missing-lynx.com - Gallery Pictures of vehicles

• NWA WW2 Nunawading Wargames Groups WW2 painting guide

• Painting WWII Amazon Miniatures guide - again good, covering most major armies

• Panther g Someone painted a kit of a panther - copy their paint scheme! 

• The Churchill Tank

• Welcome to Artizan Designs Their painting guide for the US army

• WWII PAINT GUIDE Gladiator games guide to what paints in what range map onto what real colours

• WWII Painting Guide The best , simplest one I found.

• Painting US WW2 Parasl

• Genuine pics of UD WW2 combat gear

• Speedpainting Esci Paras

• TOE's for US ww2 Airborne Troops

• Some painted mini US paras

• Pictures of BTD and Artizan Design 28mm figures:

  • http://perronny.free.fr/ww2/figs/USAbnTeam1.jpg

  • http://perronny.free.fr/ww2/figs/USAbnTeam2.jpg

  • http://perronny.free.fr/ww2/figs/USAbnArtizan.jpg

• Re-enactor Gear- get the historical colours just right!

Non WW2

• Some rather nice Italian Teutons

• City States banners and heraldry - amazing database site with pictures

• The Clash ! Spanish Civil War Figures being painted 

• D&P online Italian wargames portal

• Doctor Faust's Painting Clinic Good advice

• English-Chinese Online Dictionary Look up symbols for your flags here

• Heraldry on the Internet, Coats of Arms, Family Crests 

• Historical Armed Combat Association - Swords & Swordsmanship

• Knights Teutons to be precise. I lifted some ideas from here

• NKE Homepage A french guy who brilliantly paints 25mm NKE

• Painting A good straightforward painting guide for ancient figures

• warflag.com Download some flags here

• Weapons in ancient Egypt

Wargames Suppliers

Other Scales

• The Society of Ancients Links - Suppliers

Viking Links

• A narrative Finnish history (the s.c.nordic FAQ)

• Web History of Finland Finnish Viking Huistory

• THE MIDDLE AGES AND A PIECE OF FINNISH HISTORY

• The Periphery of Francia Looking at the Vikings from a geopolitical perspective of the time

• The Viking Answer Lady Webpage

• The World of the Vikings; the definitive guide to viking resources on the internet

WW2 & Post War Links

• 1-35 scale 251-1-C-r Tamiya (a tank painting site)

• 20th Century Wargaming

• Bookmarks someone else's links page 

• Crossfire Official Homepage (a rule set, with painting/organisational articles)

• French Organisation Tables for WW2

• French 1940s stuff Painting guides etc

• Germany's SdKfz 251 mittlerer Schützenpanzerwagen Halftracks - More painting for vehicles

• Peter Pigs Home Page They do 15mm stuff, plus also publish the truly great PBI Rules. The army packs page can be used for obats below

• PBI 2 OBATS

• Pier Models More painting resources 

• Site Map for andy o'neill tabletop wargames page, miniatures painting, ancients, colonials, scifi, fantasy, ww2 

• Third Reich Factbook - Gallery

Spanish Civil War !

• 15mm First World War & SCW Wargames Figures by LKM

• About the Spanish Civil War - essays, history stuff

• eSpol.com's World Post Cards - Spanish Civil War - Propaganda P.S.U. - U.G.T. Propaganda from both sides is an angle that makes this quite an interesting period

• Gaming the Spanish Civil War - THE  SCW wargames site - uniform painting guides and what Peter Pig figures to buy section are especially excellent

• Wargame Developments home to 2 variants of PP's other rules applied to SCW

• International Brigades Flags 

• range13 Peter Pigs SCW ranges 

• Spanish Civil War 1936-39- Links about the SCW

• SPANISH CIVIL WAR GAMING - links to SCW games

• Stronghold Miniatures Spanish Civil War 15mm Those bizzarre and dangerous armoured trucks in resin 15mm

• The Wargames Figures Company QRF also do SCW stuff 

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The Ancient Army List Index

Historical background notes, external links, 15mm supplier listings, FoG army lists, and a list of books about these armies

The Rise of Rome (280 BC to 25 BC) Mid Republican Roman ; Late Republican Roman ; Gallic ; Pyrrhic ; Later Carthaginian ; Ancient Spanish ; Later Macedonian ; Later Seleucid ; Later Ptolemaic ; Attalid Pergamene ; Numidian or early Moorish ; Pontic ; Early Armenian ; Parthian ; Later Jewish ; Illyrian ; Spartacus Slave Revolt ; Bosporan ;

Storm of Arrows - Western Europe in the Later Middle Ages (1300 AD to 1500 AD) Medieval French ; 100-yrs War English (Continental) ; 100-yrs War English (Britain) ; Later Medieval Scots ( Britain) ; Later Medieval Scots (Continental) ; Later Scots Isles & Highlands ; Medieval Welsh ; Later Anglo-Irish ; Medieval Irish ; Low Countries ; Later Medieval German ; Italian Condotta ; Swiss ; Free Company ; Medieval Burgundian ; Medieval Danish ; Medieval Swedish ; Medieval Castilian ; Medieval Crown of Aragon ; Medieval Portugese ; Later Granadine ; Navarrese ; Ordonnance French ; Wars of the Roses English ; Ordonnance Burgundian ; Santa Hermandad Nueva Castilian

Immortal Fire - The Greek, Persian & Macedonian Wars (550 BC - 146 BC)
Classical Greek ; Early Achaemenid Persian ; Lydian ; Thracian ; Syracusan ; Early Carthaginian ; Skythian or Saka ; Kyrenean Greek ; Late Dynastic Egyptian ; Alexandrian Macedonian ; Later Achaemenid Persian ; Classical Indian ; Early Successor ; Early Sarmatian ; Galatian ; Hellenistic Greek ; Graeco-Bactrian ; Graeco-Indian ; Indo-Greek :

Legions Triumphant - Imperial Rome (25 BC to 493 AD) Dominate Roman ; Principate Roman ; Foederate Roman ; Later Sarmatian ; Early German ; Dacian or Carpi ; Ancient British ; Caledonian ; Early Alan ; Jewish Revolt ; Sassanid Persian ; Kushan or Indo-Skythian ; Palmyran ; Early Frankish, Alamanni, Burgundi, Limigantes, Rugian, Suevi or Turcilingi ; Western Hunnic ; Early Visigothic & Early Vandal ; Early Ostrogothic, Herul, Sciri or Taifali ; Early Anglo-Saxon, Bavarian, Frisian, Old Saxon or Thuringian ; Gepid or Early Lombard ; Early Scots Irish ; Early Pictish ; Hephthalite Hunnic ;

Swords & Scimitars - The Crusades (1096 AD to 1311 AD) Early Crusader ; Later Crusader ; Fatimid Egyptian ; Georgian ; Seljuk Turk ; Cuman ; Komnenan Byzantine ; Post Latin Conquest Byzantine ; Ilkhanid Mongol ; Mamluk Egyptian ; Cilician Armenian ; Syrian States ; Khwarazmian ; Ayyubid Egyptian ; Middle Serbian ; Middle Bulgarian ; Medieval Cypriot ; Latin Greece ; Pecheneg ;

Eternal Empire - Eastern Europe and the Rise of the Ottomans (1300 AD to 1500 AD) Early Ottoman Turkish ; Later Ottoman Turkish ; Tatar ; Later Russian ; Later Serbian Empire ; Later Bulgarian ; Later Lithuanian ; Later Polish ; Later Teutonic Knights ; Catalan Company ; Middle Hungarian ; Moldavian or Wallachian ; Albanian ; Timurid, White Sheep Turcoman or Black Sheep Turcoman ; Later Hungarian ; Hussite ;

Decline & Fall - Byzantium and Islam (493 AD to 1071 AD) Early Byzantine; Maurikian Byzantine ; Thematic Byzantine ; Nikephorian Byzantine ; Later Moorish ; Later Visigothic ; African Vandal ; Italian Ostrogothic ; Early South Slav ; Lombard ; Avar ; Arab Conquest ; Early Bulgar ; Ummayad Arab ; Abbasid Arab ; Early North African Dynasties ; Khurasanian Dynasties ; Bedouin Dynasties ; Dailami Dynasties ; Pecheneg ; Ghaznavid ; Western Turkish (includes Khazar);

Wolves From The Sea - The Hairy European Dark Ages Post Roman British ; Early Welsh ; Later Scots Irish ; Merovingian Frankish ; Later Pictish ; Early Slavic ; Middle Anglo Saxon ; Astur Leonese ; Andalusian ; Early Navarrese ; Carolingian Frankish ; Viking ; Magyar ; Great Moravian ; Early Scots ; Rus ; Norse Irish ; Early Medieval French ; Early Medieval German ; Norman ; Early Polish ; Anglo Danish ;

Swifter Than Eagles - The Biblical Book Nubian ; Early Libyan ; Later Sumerian or Akkadian ; Early Nomad Allies ; Old or Middle Kingdom Egyptian ; Hyksos ; Mitanni ; Syro-Canaanite ; New Kingdom Egyptian ; Later Minoan or Early Mycenaean ; Hittite Empire ; ; Middle or Early Neo-Assyrian ; Later Mycenaean or Trojan ; Sea Peoples ; Philistine ; Phoenician Allies ; Neo-Hittite And Aramaean ; Later Hebrew ; Mannaean Allies ; Libyan Egyptian ; Urartian ; Median ; Neo-Elamite ; Proto-Arab Allies ; Cimmerian or Early Skythian ; Neo-Assyrian Empire ; Phrygian Allies ; Kushite Egyptian ; Neo-Babylonian Empire ;

Oaf of Fealty - Early Medieval Europe Feudal Catalan and Early Crown Of Aragon ; Early Hungarian ; Taifa Andalusian ; Feudal Navarrese and Aragonese ; Feudal Castilian Leonese or Portuguese ; Fanatic Berber ; Italo-Norman ; Feudal French ; Imperial German ; Feudal German ; Communal Italian ; Papal Italian ; Early Scots Isles And Highlands ; Feudal Scots ; Early Russian ; Feudal Polish ; Anglo-Norman ; Later Welsh ; Early Lithuanian or Samogitian ; Wendish Prussian or Estonian ; Early Medieval Frisia and Other Free Cantons ; Post-Viking Scandinavian ; Early Plantagenet English ; Later Sicilian ; Early Medieval Irish ; Early Anglo-Irish ; Early Teutonic Knights ; Mongol Invasion ; Early Granadine ; Middle Plantagenet English ;

Empires of The Dragon - China, Korea and Japan Erlitou-Shang Chinese ; Early Northern Barbarian Allies ; Early Zhou Chinese ; Yayoi Japanese ; Early Horse Nomad ; Ko Choson Korean ; Warring States To Western Han Chinese ; Qiang And Di ; Three Kingdoms Korean ; Eastern Han Chinese? ; Three Kingdoms W Jin And S Dynasties Chinese ; Kofun Nara Japanese ; Northern Dynasties Chinese ; Later Hindu North Indian ; Later Hindu South Indian ; Central Asian City States ; Western Wei To Early Tang Chinese ; ; Later Horse Nomad ; Tibetan ; Nepalese Allies ; Parhae Korean ; Late Tang To Five Dynasties Chinese ; Khmer Or Champa ; Thai Allies ; Nanzhao ; Pyu Burmese Allies ; Koryo Korean ; Early Heian Japanese ; Pagan Burmese ; Liao ; Song Chinese ; Xi Xia ; Ghurid Afghan ; Jin ; Late Heian To Muromachi Japanese ; Japanese Warrior Monk Allies ; Mongol Conquest ; Moslem Indian Sultanates ; Medieval Indonesian Or Malay ; Yuan Chinese ; Medieval Burmese ; Ming Chinese ; Yi Korean

Blood and Gold - The Americas Olmec ; Teotihuacan ; West Mexican ; Zapotec or Mixtec ; Toltec ; Chinantec ; Aztec ; Tarascan ; Tlaxcalan Confederacy ; Mayan ; Mochica ; Chanca ; Chimu ; Hatun-Colla ; Canari ; Inca ; Mapuche or Araucanian ; Amazonian Forest Tribes ; Tupi ; Chichimec ; Pueblo Culture ; Mound-Builder Culture ; South-Eastern Woodland Culture ; Timucuan ; Eastern Woodland Culture ; Plains Culture ; Pacific North-West Culture