Balkan Wargamer

On returning from Budapest I was pleased to see the main feature in this month's Wargames Illustrated is the Siege of Budapest in early ...

I have just finished reading Paddy Griffiths 'The Viking Art of War'. As always with this fine historian he gives the reader much mo...

First run out today with FoG Renaissance. Of the first army book I could field Austrian Imperial and Translyvanian armies. The dice gave m...

A bit more historical fiction in line with my current Viking/Lord of the Isles project. A new author for me is Giles Kristian and the first...

Just got back from a trip to the Hungarian capital Budapest. Lovely city for a short break. The mighty Danube separates Buda with its cast...

Finished a bit more background reading for the Lord of the Isles project. First off as always I turn to Nigel Tranter and his fictional acco...

Start of the new club year and the first round of the FoG competition yesterday. My Byzantines did not do well last year but surprised me wi...

Just finished the new Osprey Vanguard 170 'Spanish Civil War Tanks' by that No.1 tankie, Steven Zaloga. He gives a good overview o...

Early thoughts about a new project for next year's shows have focused on something Scottish. A surprising change for a Glasgow wargaming...

Dusted down my 28mm armies for the South American Wars of Liberation at the club yesterday. This was a first run out for these armies using ...

I have finished reading on the train tonight 'Lost Capital of Byzantium' by Stephen Runciman. This is a history of the hilltop cit...

A couple of train journeys help to catch up with some reading. My latest is the new Osprey, 'Fiat CR.32 Aces of the Spanish Civil War...

Another round of our club WAB competition last Sunday. My Sicilian Normans doing well again. Good firepower from the crossbow and bow armed ...

Last Monday was the rededication  in Glasgow of the statue of La Pasionaria - with the inscription "Better to die on your feet than liv...

A recent trip to Paris was an opportunity to reacquaint myself with one of the world's finest military museums the musée de l'Armée....

House move and other distractions have slowed up my leisure reading of late. I have therefore only just finished my summer holiday fiction r...

Last Saturday was one of Scotland's biggest wargame shows, Claymore. Held for the second year at its new venue, Telford College in Edinb...

Saumur is also home to the French cavalry museum (Musee de la Cavalerie). The museum is housed in former stables of the cavalry school. Poor...

The French tank museum at Saumur has a good collection of all the main German WW2 AFVs. Here are some of the ones I found interesting. Ki...

Just back from holiday in France. A number of visits will feature in blogs in the coming days. One highlight was my first visit to the Fre...