Balkan Wargamer

Back to the Far East and the painting table, after my sojourn in the ACW. These are the new Battlefront models of the Type 95 Ha-Go light ...

My copy of Sam Mustafa's new rule set, 'Longstreet' arrived this morning. A rare opportunity to dust down my ACW armies and give...

More background reading for my Far East projects. First off, there is ' Japan's Blitzkrieg ' by Bernard Edwards. This isn'...

SAGA reaches the Balkans! There was a preview of this in a freebie in Wargames Illustrated, but this is the full monty with rules for thre...

Stuart Goldman's book , 'Nomonhan 1939' was the inspiration for my latest project, the 1939 Russo-Japanese War. It might have be...

I had to make a last minute decision on producing a game at the club today. Looking at the shelves I realised that I hadn't used the 28m...

I was partially re-reading F.W.D Deakin's 'The Embattled Mountain', when I came across some inspiration for a Montengrin WW2 sce...

Sticking largely to the Balkan World War Two theme I have just finished reading 'Hitler's Jihadi's' by Jonathan Trigg. The...

Another fine Claymore show yesterday in Edinburgh. It seemed significantly busier than I remember last year, perhaps aided by the cooler day...

Off to Edinburgh tomorrow for the Claymore show . Thankfully the weather forecast is for a cooler day as it can get a bit warm in the atrium...

I have published an overview of my recent tour of Montenegro at Balkan Military History. I can't recommend this country for a visit s...

My holiday fiction reading has been a catch up of Bernard Cornwell books. I can remember the day when I would buy hardbacks of his books ...

These are the forts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy to defend their bases in the Bay of Kotorska, or as they would have described it Catt...

I am on holiday in the Balkans, where else you might say! To be specific, Kotor in Montenegro. The old town of Kotor (Cattaro) as sho...

I have just finished David Gilman’s, ‘Master of War: The Blooding’, the first part of his Hundred Years’ War series . Gil...

My skirmish with all things De Montfort and early medieval period continues with my latest non-fiction reading, 'The Second Barons' ...

I made a long overdue return visit to the Fleet Air Arm museum at Yeovilton today. This really is very well laid out. Everything you cou...

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...