Balkan Wargamer

The 28 June was the anniversary of the first Battle of Kosovo in 1389. On the Field of Blackbirds the Christian army of Serbs, Albanians, Bo...

Lots of Balkan interest in the wargame and military society journals this month. The latest edition of the New Mosquito has several exc...

My latest reading has been Balkan Breakthrough: The Battle of Dobro Pole 1918 by Richard Hall. Dobro Pole is not likely to be on many WW1...

Long drive down to Devon and back was an opportunity to listen to the unabridged version (9.5hrs) of Alan Furst's book Spies of the Balk...

Caught up with my growing pile of wargame magazines this weekend. I hope the great choice we now have reflects a healthy and viable hobby ra...

I have just taken delivery of two new army lists for FoG Renaissance. The first is Colonies and Conquest. This covers the spread of gunpow...

J ust finished the latest in the Forgotten Legion series - The Silver Eagle by Ben Kane. The story covers Roman troops captured at Carrha...

At the Carronade show in Falkirk last Saturday. As usual, it was well organised by the Falkirk lads with a good range of games and traders. ...

Despite best laid plans it was still the night before the Carronade show when I finished off the last units. Last two Scots spearmen units...

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'...