Balkan Wargamer

My latest reading has been Shattering Empires by Michael Reynolds.  This book traces relations between the Ottoman and Russian ...

My half term holiday reading has been Jonathon Riley's 'The Last Ironsides'. I am often attracted to obscure campaigns and I pi...

The Wars of the Roses has never been a period of great interest to me. Perhaps being born in Lancashire, but married to a Yorkshire woman, ...

There is a very good article by Iain Stanford in the latest edition of The Arquebusier on the 4th Austro-Turkish War 1663/4 and the battles...

The last unit of lowland militia finished. These are League of Augsburg figures. A more slender sculpt than Front Rank and others chosen fo...

Latest stage of the Sheriffmuir 1715 anniversary project is the mounted troops. Here we have some fine mounted gentlemen to ride down the ...

Peter Firstbrook has written a biography of Captain John Smith, famous for being saved from execution by a Native American tribe, by his ca...

It was the Scottish Air Show at Prestwick this weekend. The Saturday is the air display off the coast near Ayr and the Sunday is the stati...

I was following a thread on a bulletin board about roughly 20mm Russian tanks and a Matilda available at some branches of The Works. Thinki...

Well you can't have a Jacobite uprising without some Highlanders. These are Warlord figures from their boxed set. They are a bit stereo...

I do like an anniversary for wargaming inspiration. This year is the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715. On 6 September...

I have just finished Dusan Babac's ' The Serbian Army in the Wars for Independence against Turkey 1876-1878 ', published by Heli...

The second half of my poolside holiday reading was Robin Waterfield's history of the Roman invasion of Greece. He starts with the...

The city of Pula (Pola Italian ) in Croatia, was the main naval base of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. There is plenty to see reflecting its var...

The beautiful Soca Valley in Slovenia is a tourist playground today, with mountain walking, paragliding and watersports. However, in 1917 i...