Balkan Wargamer

I have just finished the September update of Balkan Military History. The feature article is a more detailed account of how the allies us...

Back to the Second World War and my recent trip to the Adriatic island of Vis. Following the Italian capitulation on 8 September 1943, ...

A century ago, to this day, Austro-Hungarian troops reached the foothills of Mount Cer in western Serbia. In a four day battle they were hea...

Some reinforcements for the WW1 Austro-Hungarian army, in time to take the tabletop for the centenary of their offensive into Serbia in 1914...

I played my first game of the new SAGA rules, 'The Crescent and the Cross' yesterday, after picking them up at Claymore. I say new...

In between my other holiday painting, rain keeping me off the golf course, I have completed my first Game of Thrones army for SAGA. This i...

Off to Edinburgh today for Claymore 2014. I particularly enjoyed this year's show because I attended as a punter, rather than havng to o...

More holiday reading, this time John Sadler’s ‘Clan Donald’s Greatest Defeat: The Battle of Harlaw 1411’. The battle, sometimes called ...

Holiday travel enabled me to read the next two books in S.J.A.Turney’s, Ottoman Cycle. The first was the ‘Priest’s Tale’, where our ‘hero...

Today is the 100th anniversary of the opening declaration of what would become the First World War. Matthew Seligmann explains the proc...

This month's Balkan Military History features a tour around the Croatian Island of Vis. I outline the history of this island that has...

The Croatian island of Vis is a good place to see installations of the former Yugoslav National Army (Jugoslavenska Narodna Armija) or JNA,...

I am holidaying on the Croatian island of Vis (formerly Lissa). Furthest out of the Adriatic Islands, only 60 miles from Italy, it has been...

This is the second of Ben Kane's Hannibal series. He tells the story of the Second Punic War through the lives of a Roman and a Cartha...