Balkan Wargamer

This is the latest Flames of War supplement covering the early war battles in North Africa. Usual FoW format with high quality production va...

T he Black Powder supplement Last Argument of Kings got its first run out on Sunday. We did a Wellesley in India scenario using the colonial...

Picked up a nice booklet on the Very British Civil War theme called The People's Armies . This is available from Solway Miniatures . T...

Just finished working my way through the first Black Powder supplement The Last Argument of Kings. Pete Brown has done a lovely job with ...

Played my first game of the new ancient rules, Hail Caesar today. We have been playing Black Powder for some time and the mechanisms are sim...

New historical fiction authors appear to be pouring off the shelves recently. As regular readers of this bog will know I am fascinated by th...

Got the new units onto the tabletop for the first time today. The scenario involved a Clydeside Brigade attack on a Scottish Government ou...

I have been working my way through some review packs of David Burns new range of figures for the Greek army of WW2 in 28mm. And very nice t...

The next unit for my Very British Civil War project is the Clydeside Battalion. These are better trained troops financed and organised by ...

My latest historical fiction reading has been Honour and the Sword by A.L. Berridge. This is the author's first novel and takes place...

Just finished reading  Blood on the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915 by Graydon Tunstall. I thought I knew a bit about most WW1 ca...

Popped down to Lanark today for Scotland's Festival of History . This is a two day living history event with a wide range of re-enactors...

Just completed the first unit for my Very British Civil War project. For those not familiar with the concept it is an alternative historical...

It was the Claymore show in Edinburgh today. As well organised as ever by the Edinburgh club in a fine venue. Even the weather was cooler, a...

A bit of film nostalgia. The Vikings is a film starring Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis and Ernest Borgnine and based on the novel The Viking by...

Next unit off the bench for the 1877 Russo-Turkish War are the Russians. More figures from the 28mm range by Outpost Miniatures . It's...

Second half of my holiday reading was Bernard Cornwell's The Fort . Cornwell is of course the benchmark for historical fiction and he do...

I spent my summer holiday in Brittany. Not an area I know well, but one with a rich history. Brittany gets its name from the settlement of...

First on my holiday reading list has been Robert Low's new book 'The Lion Awakes'. He is the author of the Oathsworn series of V...

In December I posted pictures of the Bulgarian Legion in 28mm from a new range by Outpost Miniatures . These are for the Russo-Turkish War ...