Battle lines drawn.  The Bulgars (green die) with the initiative roll... 'Correctly anticipating that the Bulgar raiders would make thei...

 'The second year of Michael Ponos, Emperor, was a year of constant pressure from without the Byzantine Imperium, and revolt within.  Th...

My Byzantines, of course, must needs an opponent ... or two. I began with Bulgars, the arch-enemy of Byzantium for centuries, until Basil II...

 The world has become a much darker place in the last few weeks - but that twilight has been deepening for years and years, and looks to hav...