This month’s sample article from the pages of past Lone Warrior issues is by Paul Le Long and illustrates his ideas for playing a game without rules, using a “fate chart” and an ongoing narrative. It works! The article is on the Sample Articles oage.
Battle reports
Battle of Rigatoni AAR
By George Arnold In the latest issue of Lone Warrior magazine, I described the ways in which I set up a recent miniatures game, using some solo ideas to take much of the control of the set-up out of my hands. The idea, of course, was to avoid — as much as possible — giving one […]
Germanicophobia …
… Or, A Solo Wargamer Immerses Himself in Impetvs By Chris Hahn What happens when 1,050 points of Germans and 800 points of Early Imperial Romans are deployed on a six-by-four-foot table? Drawing on some years of experience, I imagine that the resulting collision (more like series of collisions) would be fairly intense, as well […]
Some CC:N (Napoleonics) heresy
By George Arnold “Commands & Colors: Napoleonics” is a great board game in its own right. Naturally, I had to fiddle with it. If you read on-line comments about the game, new players are forever suggesting, based on just a game or two, some additional rules that they think would make CC:N so much better. […]
East versus West: Fictional history with Armati 2
By Chris Hahn Inspired by the Chalons-centric issue of Slingshot (July-August 2013), I decided to stage a similar, but rather different, battle on my tabletop. In very brief summary, I set up a fictional contest between Late Roman armies representing the directional halves of the Empire. I used a variety of rule amendments and despite […]
Battle of Drepanum refight AAR
By George Arnold As I mentioned in the latest issue of Lone Warrior magazine, I’m determined to break out of a rut and play more games. For various reasons, my actual game-playing has suffered the last couple of years — maybe longer. So I thought I’d set up an ancient naval galley scenario from the old […]
Currently playing on my tabletop …
By Chris Hahn As of the afternoon of March 12, I find myself six turns in to a rather large game of “Impetvs.” Without going into too much detail, a few weeks ago I found myself enamored with the idea of staging my own battle day event (much like the erudite gentlemen at the annual […]
The Governor’s Gamble AAR
or An ‘Impetvs’ Interpretation of the Battle of Watling Street By Chris Hahn The more I studied the map on page 194 of “Warfare in the Classical World” [1] and the more I reviewed the accompanying explanatory caption on page 195, the more excited and interested I became about the prospect of refighting Queen Boudicca’s […]
The Battle of Glynndale Moor AAR
or A Solo Wargamer Visits the Houses of Lancaster and York By Chris Hahn Inspired by John Graham Leigh’s report of his refight of St. Albans in the May/June 2013 issue of Slingshot, I interrupted a Seven Years War project and immediately started planning and preparing a Wars of the Roses battle for my 6×4-foot tabletop. […]
Arguing over Armenia
Middle Imperial Romans vs. Sassanid Persians By Chris Hahn Oh, to have been in attendance when “Go Meek Into The Desert 260 AD” was played [1]. In addition to playing at war on simple, attractive, and completely transportable terrain populated with excellently-painted and therefore spectacular-looking figures, I would have been in the company of a […]