The slopes

tridentebologna | April 29, 2012

The first hexagonal elements we will discuss are slopes. By slope, we mean a hex that has one or more sides at a lower elevation and two or more sides that come are at a higher elevation. The most common hexagon slopes are: Straight slope Curved slope Close curved slope Slope to enlarge Slope to [...]

Put down your ideas

tridentebologna | April 16, 2012

But where did we arrived? Ah yes, now I remember … Yeah, it’s polystyrene and what do you thought it was? Probably the first impact with the hexagons it could be just show in the photos, but as we said in the post “ What do you see in this? “, you need to go [...]

Hellana 2012

tridentebologna | April 8, 2012

For those who still don’t know, Hellana is one of the major Italian convention dedicated mostly to the historical wargame. Even this year, as in the last 4 years, we have participated in this beautiful event, bringing an Anticamente scenery. The scenario is a Russian fortified City that is attacked from the Mongolian Army. The [...]

Have you any problems with earthquakes?

tridentebologna | March 30, 2012

When I started to think to make a battlefield with hexagonal elements, one of the first questions I had were: “How can I keep stationary all these hexagons?“. The problem was serious, on a smooth surface the hexagons move, as you can see very well from this movie, just tilt the plan a little and [...]

Andrea Pagni and his castle

tridentebologna | March 18, 2012

Yesterday I received these beautiful images and a message to Andrea that I want to repeat without much delay. Here’s for you the Andrea’s words What appears on the photos is a work in progress, because it will remain so until the end of time, but an example of what can be done with the [...]

The Battlefield for the 2011 Anticamente Final

tridentebologna | March 4, 2012

Has gone two months from 2011, I would like to write more of the events of last year, but 2012 looms and preparation of new tournaments and new Army Lists have prevailed. But we had started some time ago to talk of hexagon fields and our choice of the type to be taken. Before moving [...]

Hexagonal battlefields

tridentebologna | December 18, 2011

Anticamente is a Wargame that is based on the use of a battlefield divided into hexagonal areas. For this reason, the first thing you must do in order to play Anticamente is to get a field “hexagonal”. There are several ways to make a “hexagonal” field. The first method that we used was to use [...]

Andrea Pagni and his work in progres

tridentebologna | July 4, 2011

Not all projects that are initiated are lucky enough to be completed, but after seeing these pictures, I felt the need to encourage Andrea because if this is the beginning of the work, I’m really looking forward to seeing the finished work, what do you think However what struck me particularly is the personal and [...]

Official Battlefields Championship 2011

tridentebologna | April 19, 2011

In the 2011 Championship rules there was written: Battlefields: Each tournament table will be made by the organization. The exact composition of the tables will be drawn at random from among those previously reported as official. Alas, we’re sorry, but in the first tournament was not notified in advance the exact composition of the fields. [...]

Play and the Selva Litana

tridentebologna | March 30, 2011

For those who do not know what is Play knows that this is one of the largest Italian convention dedicated to the game. This year we are also kept inside the “Wargame Olympics” organized by the FIW and where participated multiple historical wargame tournaments. We, like last year, were invited to hold a Anticamente demonstration. [...]