Balkan Wargamer

This was the title of our big game at the GDWS double header this weekend. Early 18th Century using around 600, 28mm figures and Black Powde...

A news item on the BBC the other morning caught my eye describing how the National Archives are putting war diaries on the web as part of th...

I got one of my recent projects onto the tabletop yesterday at the club - Dacian Wars . Two 300 point Hail Caesar armies organised into tw...

Last game of the holidays before returning to work tomorrow. First outing for my new 28mm British and Japanese forces for the Malayan camp...

I have at last managed to get two 1500 point Flames of War armies on the tabletop for the Nomonham Incident. In 1932, the Japanese occupie...

A lot of stories about liver disease in today's Scottish media that I didn't appreciate after last night's excess, but a break i...

Second on my holiday reading list has been Bernard Cornwell’s latest epic, ‘The Pagan Lord’. This is the latest in the Warrior Ch...

I played my first game of Chain of Command at the club yesterday, the WW2 platoon level skirmish game by Two Fat Lardies. We played a V...

I did promise myself some gaming over the holidays and I got to a project inspired by my first game with the excellent Musket and Tomahawk ...

My holiday reading starts with, ‘ Conquer or Die! Wellington’s Veterans and the Liberation of the New World ’ by Ben Hughes. Simon Boli...

Merry Christmas to everyone. Hope you got all the toys you wanted! Given my huge pile of metal I asked for some restraint from Santa, but it...

Two more units of Brits for my Bolt Action Malaya project. These are Perry plastics as several units got diverted to Singapore. And...

Some more 28mm Japanese for the Malaya campaign. Again these are Warlord, based for Bolt Action rules. If I can finish off the Brits by Xmas...

First of the Warlord Japanese off the bench. These are from the Warlord metal box and few extras. Probably a few too many kneeling and crawl...

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...