Balkan Wargamer

These figures are for our Claymore demo, Raid on Tito . They will be Tito and his bodyguard. However, they will make an appearance at Wappin...

We made the journey down to Sheffield over the weekend for two days at the Triples show. My first time at the new venue. Plenty of space in ...

It was the Falkirk  Carronade show yesterday. Fine venue for a big show feel. What I really like is the large amount of games being played. ...

We did a cut down version of our Wappinshaw display game, Glasgow Green 1938 , at the club on Sunday. Waves of Government forces attacking t...

My background reading for our display game at Carronade next week took me to Sean McGlynn's book, 'Blood Cries Afar'. This co...

When we started the Muret 1213 project there was a naive assumption that we had most of the figures required. Of course when we came to look...

Got a game of Grande Armee in over Easter. We refought Talavera, very doable in this scale as are all the big battles of the Naploeonic wars...

We tested a cut down version of the scenario for our Carronade display game, Muret 1213 , at the club on Sunday 8 April. The basic idea ...

My Easter reading has been Perry Moore's book 'Panzerschlacht: Armoured operations on the Hungarian Plains, September- November 1944...

One of the very few Balkan conflicts I haven't done before is Trajan's invasion of Dacia. I have been collecting Roman units for t...

A short interregnum in my reading around my key projects has been Elizabeth James book, 'Constantine the Great - Warlord of Rome'...

Some reinforcements for my Russo-Turkish War 1877 project in 28mm. These are from the seriously good Outpost Miniatures range. I have retur...

I am getting into the research for our first display game of season at Carronade in May, the Battle of Muret 1213 . I usually start wi...

My first wargame show of the season was yesterday's Dumfries show, Albanich. I was working in the morning so I only had time for a brief...

This year is the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden. It was fought in Northumberland on 9 September 1513 between a Scottish army led...

After my last game in the Flames of War, Seelowe Nord campaign, it became obvious that the Germans would need some heavier firepower as they...

Today I fought another stage in the Seelowe Nord campaign. For those not familiar with the concept, this is a 15mm Flames of War campaign ba...