Balkan Wargamer

This year is the centenary of Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico, the last invasion of the USA by foreign troops. It sparked a ...

A new author for me is Julian Brazier who has written a new take on the Alfred the Great story in his novel Viking Storm. The story broadly ...

I have started to use my Game of Thrones armies for Lion Rampant as well as SAGA. This requires some additional troops for the standard 24p...

One of those ‘on this day’ tweets reminded me that the siege of Bataan started at this time in World War Two. Over the holidays I had been ...

Another fill in job completed on the early war Germans in 15mm with some more rifle teams. I was thinking about a Seelowe Nord scenario, wh...

Happy New Year! The New Year is a time to look back, and more importantly, to look forward. My blogging slipped a bit last year, but I ...

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...