Midgard

 

In my on going quest for some satisfying Middle Earth rules, I have purchased Midgard, the exciting new "heroic era" wargaming rules by James Morris (see his Midgard stuff HERE and his Middle Earth stuff HERE) and published by Too Fat Lardies. Find the Lard TV Midgard videos HERE.

I've watched the development of these rules with interest. The 20% off pre-order deal was just too good to pass up on so I jumped on it (especially with the current exchange rate with the Pound).

A nice value added with TFL products is getting the pdf when you purchase the physical book. Normally I am not overly bothered with the pdf. I dutifully save it to all my devices. I will open it to print the Player QRS. And then promptly ignore it. 

Canada Post going on strike while my copy is in transit was a bit annoying. But thanks to the pdf, I can load it onto Mrs. Rabbitman's tablet and get stuck in and start thinking about elves, dwarves, and orcs again. 

There will be a tiny bit of reorganization required, but nothing too onerous. Midgard doesn't use fixed unit sizes. But it does use a fixed unit frontage. Everything is based on the "spear throw". Nominally 120mm, but you can make 80mm a "spear throw" if that works for your armies.

My dwarves already fit nicely into 120mm x 40mm for a unit. Or I might make a spear throw equal to the nice movement trays Don designed and printed for me. I can cut different measuring sticks and see what I like.

Elves and orcs will need some trays. But with everyone being on washers, I can do that easily. 

My Medieval armies are already on 40x40 bases, so 3x stands across will be a unit. Which is 12x heavy infantry or 6x skirmishers, which is how I organized them for Lion Rampant, so no rebasing required!

Midgard might even work with Samurai. The Age of War is starting to get away from the heroic leadership of earlier Samurai wars, but sub commanders still got stuck in.

Could these rules be the "magic bullet"?

We won't know until we try.

Watch this space!