Balkan Wargamer

My holiday fiction reading has been the second volume in Giles Kristian’s 'Bleeding Land' trilogy, Brothers’ Fury - set in the Eng...

Given the growing pile of metal (and plastic) on my painting table, my Christmas list was very restrained this year. However, one addition ...

Having played Lion Rampant I decided to give the recently published fantasy version a go. Also an opportunity to dust down my box of fant...

The holiday break is an opportunity to catch up on some outstanding projects, one of which is trying out the Lion Rampant rules. These are ...

Precious little wargaming or related reading recently, as work has taken over all waking hours. Roll on Xmas! One book I have finished is ...

Yes, it's that time - a new Bernard Cornwell book. You just have to forget about doing anything else. Just put the kettle on, cup of tea...

'The Defence and Fall of Greece 1940-41' by John Carr, primarily covers the Italian invasion of Greece that started in October 1940...

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...