A fascinating video about the ancient ‘Royal Game of Ur’. This is something I need to get and play. I have had a look at a few versions available online. Some make a mind-numbingly stupid mistake – by replacing the 4 tetrahedral dice (with what seems to be with two […]
Historical
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Here is a great video from The British Museum looking at early Anglo-Saxon swords. I had never heard of the little rings attached to the swords before and what they might represent. I also like the idea of the rune added to the sword (it doesn’t take much research to […]
Some people apparently seemed to think that William the Conqueror (also known as William the Bastard) was a jovial, friendly, fluffy-bunny of a man…. what were they smoking??? The Harrying of the North was not the act of a nice chap…. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/20/william-i-how-we-misunderstood-the-conqueror-for-950-years
I have decided that Saga is the historical tabletop game I want to try my hand at – and as I had some random Saxons and Norse lying around from some previous dabbling with Warhammer Ancient Battles – I thought I’d paint some of them up for Saga. Here is […]
A fantastically useful resource on colours used in the dark ages – very useful for painting Northmen, Saxons and co…. http://www.rosieandglenn.co.uk/TheLibrary/Costume/CnTGuides/General/Colours.htm