Balkan Wargamer

First go at a Napoleonic game using the Black Powder rules at the club on Sunday. The opposing forces were Napoleon's army of Egypt a...

My short break after Easter took us up to the West Highlands for a few days. After my business trip to Stornaway (see earlier blog) it was...

Short break away after Easter allowed me to catch up with some reading. My choice was the Hungarian author Geza Gardonyi and his novel Ecl...

My Spanish Civil War project in 15mm is grinding slowly on. My latest reading has been Heroic Voices of the Spanish Civil War by Peter Darm...

I have been working on the preparation for our next display game over the holiday weekend. This will be Tannenberg, the epic encounter betwe...

Just completed the monthly update of Balkan Military History. The feature article this month is the Ottoman army of the 19th Century. Actu...

Second half of our club FoG competition started yesterday. The first half was limited to pre-Feudal armies and now we have shifted to the la...

This is the latest adventure of the Oathsworn from the pen of my wargaming opponent Robert Low. This is a Viking saga told by a man who real...

Just finished C.C.Humphreys novel of the real Dracula, Vlad . This is the first novel I have read by this author who appears to be better kn...

Missed my wargaming fix this weekend as I am streaming with a cold. Particularly annoying as we have our open FoG competition Schiltron and...

Just finished reading the latest edition of Hobilar , the journal of the Lance and Longbow Society . There is a particularly good article ...

Just finished my monthly update of the Balkan Military History website. The feature army this month is the Normans. The Norman adventure ...

It was Field of Glory competition day at the club on Sunday. I was fielding my Early Byzantine's against a Pontic army. The Pontic...

My latest reading has been 'Over the Balkans and South Russia 1917-19' by H.A.Jones MC, published by Grenhill Books in 1987. Picked...

The Spanish Civil War is my new project for 2010. Of course like any wargamer this doesn't mean I have finished my current projects! Pet...

I received a complimentary copy of a new wargames magazine this week Wargames Recon . The economics of magazine publishing must be improving...

A pal pointed me in the direction of this clip on YouTube  that depicts the Russians storming Plevna during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78...

Club game this Sunday was a Salonika campaign scenario using Warhammer Historical The Great War rules. A British battalion against a mixed G...

A rare Scottish link with the Balkans in the Scotsman newspaper with an article about Dr Elizabeth Ross who died in a Serbian military hospi...

Completed some new editions for one of my current wargame projects, the Salonika Campaign of WW1 . I have always been interested in this c...