When? NatCon10 will be held over Easter Weekend 2010. For the calendarly minded of you, that's the 2nd - 4th of April, 2010. Registrations will open in November and will close in February. Cost will go up the longer you leave it! Where? We'll be hosting NatCon10 at the St Patricks School Hall in Up...

I have a whole army of OG 25mm Wallachian types and they're very nice. The Voynuks in particular I really liked and they do a really cool pack of "personalities" that includes a very nice model of Vlad (along with Stephen the Great, Janos Hunyadi and others, but they make for good generals...

I have a bunch of Essex ones but I will say that the model they label "Palmyran Cataphract" is a bit pants. I wound up buying a mixture of Roman Clibanarii, Byzantine Kataphraktoi and Cataphract Camel riders and if memory serves there might even have been some leftover Sarmatians in there....

Later Pre-Islamic Arab.

Nice. Thanks gents. I was leaning very heavily toward the Xyston ones. They're lovely looking minis and having had it up to here *waving hands above head* painting Essex pikes for a Later Low Countries list, they look like they'll be a nice change. Using some of the lighter equipped Macabees and sim...

Gidday all, I'm quite keen to build a Later Ptolemaic army and wanted to see if anyone has any recommendations for good figures for the pre-55 BC Egyptian Phalangites and the post-55 BC "Phalangites." I am assuming these are pretty well one and the same. Having said that, given that the po...

I doubt you'd find many horsemen trying to fight with a voulge! It'd be very hard work and probably not that practical! I would think that by far and away the bulk of French mounted men-at-arms would have fought with lance and a secondary weapon - sword, mace, whatever. At a guess, I'd say that the ...

A Voulgier is a man using a voulge. It's a kind of polearm. Have a look at this for some examples. http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/20C/voulge.gif Regarding the lack of foot men-at-arms, I don't think the French were particularly fond of dismounting in this period. If memory serves they were supposed to ...