Balkan Wargamer

Dystopian Wars is popular at my club, GDWS, and having played my first game the other week, I can see why. The Victorian science fiction ge...

My painting schedule has drifted off in the last month. Busy at work and I have spent my spare evenings rebuilding the Glasgow and District...

Soldiers and Weapons is a new series to me, published by TheSoldier Shop in Italian and English, splitting each page in half. The format i...

This is the third in Ben Kane's Hannibal trilogy and is another gripping read. It follows two unlikely friends, one a Roman and the ot...

I attended the Somerled and the Battle of Renfrew conference today, held in the fine setting of Renfrew Town Hall. For those not familiar w...

Back to the Saga, Game of Thrones project this week. I decided to use GW Lord of the Rings figures again, this time Riders of Rohan seemed...

I have had a Seleucid army for many years and I notice it is pretty popular amongst tournament FoG players. I can see why with its balance o...

Some reinforcements for the Empire forces in Malaya 1942, in the form of Aussies. These are Warlord Chindits painted up as Australian infa...

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...