Balkan Wargamer

The alarm going off at 4:30am on a Saturday morning in April, can only mean one thing, the UK's biggest war game show - Salute. After...

A short break after Easter with my partner was an opportunity to revisit parts of the West Highlands that I haven't been to for some ye...

My exploration of Blucher continues with, unsurprisingly, my first Balkan battle. Ottomans against Russians. All my 15mm Napoleonic armies ...

I have just finished reading Simon Winder's entertaining personal history of Habsburg Europe, Danubia. This is more about the Habsburg...

Got my new bases for Blucher on the Wargames table at last. 1809 Austrian against French. Austrian's won, which makes a change. I am co...

Another fill in project to work down my pile of lead has been the 15mm QRF version of the Lanchester armoured car. These served in Malaya i...

I have been impressed with my first few games of Blucher and I think it will be my rule set of choice for grand tactical games with 15mm f...

I have played a few more games with the innovative skirmish rules 'Open Combat', published by Second Thunder Games. These rules wor...

I was up in the Orkney Islands this week, I haven't been up for a few years. One of my favourite Scottish island groups with a rich his...

Not much time for painting at present, but I have managed a couple of filling in projects. I picked up this Empress Spanish Civil War comma...