Balkan Wargamer

Some new recruits for my British in Egypt project. These are Gordon Highlanders who formed part of Hope's Brigade. The Highland regiment...

Some progress on the Salonika WW1 project. The first Bulgarians are off the workbench. We have an officer stand and a unit of irregulars. Re...

Just completed the May update of the Balkan History web site. The main new feature this month is the Russian army of 1877 with its Romanian...

My latest reading has been The Sultan's Seal by Jenny White. This is a work of crime fiction based in Istanbul in 1886. The 'dect...

Excellent show at Carronade yesterday. The Falkirk club have established this date as one of the best in Scotland with good games and a wide...

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...