Balkan Wargamer

New addition to the Italian forces for the Mediterranean campaigns is a flight of Fiat CR.42 aircraft. Also useful for the Spanish Civil War...

The Clydeside Brigade is looking good with the latest arrivals adding to their strength. Fascists beware! However, something was missing - ...

Just finished my first Kindle book, Afrika Reich by Guy Saville. I didn't think I would like an electronic book reader, but I was wrong...

This weekend was was our annual Double Header at GDWS. An opportunity to play big games that take too long to fit into the normal Sunday aft...

This is a new booklet from Partizan Press on the Hungarian Army during the year of revolutions as it sought to break away from the Hapsburg...

The New Year brings some new recruits to the Clydeside Brigade. First we have a shipyard rifle platoon. They have taken the Covenanters as...

A bit of an indulgence this but I couldn't resist these figures and A Very British Civil War was just the excuse. May I present the Du...

My post-Xmas reading was Andy Johnson's Seelowe Nord: The Germans are Coming . This is a fictional account of the German invasion of Bri...

Happy new year! I suspect one prominent military history anniversary this year will be Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Of course I am a...

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...