Balkan Wargamer

Unlike my last review of The Berlin-Baghdad Express  my latest read Engines of War by Christian Wolmar is a proper blend of railways and mi...

A few skirmishers for the early feudal Scots. I know the early tartan is unproven, but the odd figure makes it look like a Scots army. The...

Just finished Sean McMeekin's book The Berlin-Baghdad Express - The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 . ...

Very busy at work and starting to panic as Carronade beckons and our Lord of the Isles display still needs plenty of Scots. Can't let th...

Just finished reading 'Fields of Death'  the last installment of Simon Scarrow's Napoleonic quartet. This series takes the lives...

A new member at the club expressed an interest in playing 19th Century Principles of War today. This was a good opportunity to dust down my ...

Slow progress on the painting and gaming front recently; work does get in the way of the hobby!. More done than I think but limited to short...

Just finished FoW rebasing the Greeks of WW2. The Italian Greek campaign of 1940 is one of the more interesting and underplayed conflicts of...

I have e njoyed my latest Osprey, Carthaginian Warrior 264-146BC . As I have mentioned before this was my first wargame army and I have a so...

Finished rebasing my WW2 Italians for Flames of War. I can use some of the units to supplement the Nationalists for the Spanish Civil War pr...

Brothers at War is the second book in the Empire of the Moghul series by Alex Rutherford. This follows on from the story of the dynasty'...

I popped down to Dumfries yesterday for Albanich the first Scottish wargames show of the year. This is a small local show that none the le...

Glasgow and District Wargames Society held its annual double header and open days this weekend. This is the opportunity to play big games th...

Just finished Jeff Champion's book on Pyrrhus of Epirus. His claim to fame is that he defeated the Romans in two major battles and was r...

Another gift from Santa was Barbara Jelavich's tome on Russia's Balkan Entanglements 1806-1914 . This is a primarily a diplomatic ...

Santa was very good to me in the books department. The first to be read was David Nicolle's Cross and Crescent in the Balkans . This i...

Happy New Year! May your dice always roll 6. Well for most rules anyway. It is traditional at this time of year to review projects and pla...

Thank goodness for the Xmas holidays and a chance to get some figures onto the tabletop. Had my first serious effort at playing Flames of ...

Bit of a fill in job this. I picked these Hussars up from the Geordies at Under the Bed Enterprises in the Summer to strengthen the Austria...

A bit more work completed on the Lord of the Isles project.  I have re-read Andrew McDonald's book on the subject. This is a more acad...