I had been invited to the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre to witness a walk in participation game of Ruckus, but I arrived far too early on a bright sunny May morning and so enjoyed a blissful, sun kissed solitary walk around the battl…
Well Partizan was excellent! Its a gathering of like minds and as such a lovely jovial atmosphere prevails. Everywhere there are games and gamers having fun. And what games! Enormous great things with thousands of figures and dozens of eleg…
The Cunning Plan So we are going to Partizan, but what game are we going to present? I knew I wanted to use the Reivers, but I didn’t know how. I played several games with Rob Squires, Jordan Linton, Mark Taylor and Chris Bailey featuring a…
The Hills! The Hills! In January I began preparing for Partizan, poor, ignorant, happy fool that I was, I figured five months would be plenty of time to get everything ready. I knew I wanted to do a Reivers themed game but didn’t really kno…
Partizan- The Bastle and Barmkin Oh what a great name for a pub! The Bastle and Barmkin, I bet they serve a lovely brown pint of traditional bitter and chilli Hoglumps. A Bastle-Illustration from the Reiver website The characteristics of th…
Partizan- The Bastle and Barmkin Oh what a great name for a pub! The Bastle and Barmkin, I bet they serve a lovely brown pint of traditional bitter and chilli Hoglumps. A Bastle-Illustration from the Reiver website The characteristics of th…
The Pele TowerPele towers are small, fortified medieval tower houses built between 1350 and 1600 along the Anglo-Scottish border and in Northern England. Designed for defence against Border Reivers, these three to four -story stone towers f…
I had a fantastic time at Partizan last year. It was my first time at the show, and I was very pleased and extremely surprised when we won the Duncan McFarlane Award for the best demo game with our Robin Hood Ruckus game. I was doubly surpr…
Flags of War pic: BW04 the mounted Grahams and BW 21 the mounted Warden Border Wars- Under a Reiver Moon For me and for Ruckus, 2026 will be the year of the Reiver! I have been writing the Ruckus version of these “Pirates on Horseback” for
Volume 1 The Triumph of York 1455-1461 Published by Helion and Company Helion sent a me a copy of this marvellous new history to review. Before I start I should declare that David Grummitt is a friend of mine and we have played games and ha…
Using Mounted Characters in Ruckus and A and T Ruckus was born three years ago on a wintery November night at Bristol Independent Gaming and has been played hundreds of times since by the Ruckusteers. One of the first things to develop once…
Using Mounted Characters in Ruckus and A and T Ruckus was born three years ago on a wintery November night at Bristol Independent Gaming and has been played hundreds of times since by the Ruckusteers. One of the first things to develop once…