Twin Cities Gamer

I'm back to playing ancients with the excellent L'Art de la Guerre  rules. ADLG succeeds where Field of Glory (FoG) ancients stumble...

To finish the Impetus armies I started last spring, I needed a Gallic and Pontic camp plus Pontic command stands. Here are the results! ...

Last unit up are Persian Xystophoroi cavalry, representing the elite Pontic heavy cavalry.  The Impetus Pontic list allows a "Heavy Cav...

The Scythians were yet another nomadic tribe that served in the Pontic army. Known for their prowess on horseback and with the bow, they ...

The Rhoxolani were a Sarmatian people that migrated toward what is now the Baragan steppes in Romania .  The historian Strabo described th...

Ok, that was a fib but I do like how the word just rolls off of the tongue... Thur-Re-o-Pho-Ronii. I'm pretty sure whenever I speak it o...

The Galatians were a Celtic people who settled south of the Pontic kingdom on an upland plateau.  They forced their way into the region, fig...

Who were the Bastarnae?  For me, that was a good question as I hadn't seen them at our club and I didn't recognize this troop type ...

White Shields:   Phalangites were the backbone of the Pontic army during the First Mithridatic war.  Plutarch reports that at the Battle o...