Balkan Wargamer

The WW2 Far East project is back on track with some more reading on the Malayan campaign. This time a compelling story about the 'stay...

My Far East project has taken a bit of a detour into the Sino-Japanese conflict, which of course began before WW2. My latest reading is Rana...

The latest additions to my Bolt Action 28mm Balkan WW2 project are the Handschar. Or properly, the 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS H...

I played my first game of Muskets and Tomahawks today at the club. A dry run for the club display game at the Targe show next weekend at Kir...

I eventually got some of the recent painting on the table today with a Malaya game using Flames of War rules. A Japanese tank platoon of f...

My reading has drifted a bit from the original Russo-Japanese project to the earlier conflict in China. This includes Peter Harmsen's, ...

I went to the SELWG show at Crystal Palace today. I am in London for half term and the wargames is a trade for taking Jess to the Harry Pott...

I haven't posted a book review for a while because my latest reading has been heavy going. It is James Pettifer's ' The Kosova L...

Next batch of Russians have finally made it off the painting bench. First some 45mm ATGs  Then 76mm field guns  and finally some m...

My latest reading has been Peter Haining's 'Where the Eagle Landed'. This is badged as the mystery of the German invasion of Bri...

Onwards with the Far East project and my latest reading is 'Japan's Greatest Victory - Britain's Worst Defeat' by Colonel Ma...

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...