Balkan Wargamer

My post Christmas gaming, other than a multi-player Napoleonic Principles of War game, has  focused on Dark Age skirmishing. Firstly, with...

This the remarkable story of John Morse, told in his own words, an Englishman caught in Germany at the outset of WW1. He was on business i...

Crime fiction is not my usual genre, but when the setting is 19th Century Istanbul and the author is a historian of the period, I am intere...

We had an opportunity at the club last week to expand our understanding of the Black Powder rules using the Last Argument of Kings supplemen...

My somewhat belated copy of Burning Empires turned up this week. This is the latest Flames of War supplement covering the early war in the M...

Busy, busy at present at work so my reading and gaming schedule is slipping somewhat. However, I have just finished The Black Hole by Jan D...

Having really enjoyed Jack Ludlow's  Conquest trilogy I decided to try his Republic trilogy, starting with The Pillars of Rome. This ...

Just scanned the arrival of the Great War supplement 'Over the Top'. Half price at present from Warhammer Historical. This supplem...

First time out for my FoGR Polish army today in the GDWS competition. And very well they did too with a 25-0 win. Aided it has to be said wi...

This is a book for the Napoleon buff. If you think Napoleon has been harshly treated by history you will love this book. The sub title is ...

Just finished James Waterson's The Ismaili Assassins . This is the story of a religious sect based in the Middle East that waged war pri...

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 ...