Balkan Wargamer

Some more 28mm WW2 Greeks off the production line for Bolt Action. Another platoon of infantry supported by a heavy machine gun. Still got a...

One of my favourite medieval characters is Robert Guiscard, a Norman knight who journeyed to Southern Italy to make his fortune. It wa...

Bit of a picture fest in this month's Balkan Military History update. The feature piece is the Ottoman army from the late medieval per...

This is a very useful and rare collection of Serbian uniform plates from 1808. Posted on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiMCTRA1...

I picked this book up at Triples together with a similar one in the series, Warriors of Japan. That one has some very good colour plates of ...

Some progress with the WW2 Yugoslavia project. A couple of platoons of Italian infantry fresh off the production line. I also picked up...

Yesterday was the Wappinshaw show in Glasgow's Kelvin Hall. A new venue for this show and not likely to be repeated as the halls are bei...

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...