Balkan Wargamer

That's another Salute come and gone. We will pass quickly over my trip to Brighton the night before for the footie - grim on all counts....

The Pancho Villa project has got off the starting blocks. Well the first two units painted at least! The plan is to paint up two armies i...

Coincidentally, as Palmyra has been in the news following its ‘liberation’, I have been reading Richard Stoneman’s book ‘ Palmyra and its E...

I was listening to the Meeples and Miniatures interview with Great Escape Games about their new WW2 rules, Iron Cross. Sounded like my sort ...

2015 was the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign, although the final evacuation took place in 1916 and the naval campaign went on until the...

The latest reinforcements for the French in my 28mm Peninsular War project, comes in the form of Napoleon’s Irish Legion. A bit exotic, but...

Scottish artist John Bellany was inspired by the story of the Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH) to create a large series of paintings and...

My Peninsular War project takes a step forward with reinforcements for the French in the form of the Vistula Legion. The Vistula Legion wa...

Any book with the title 'War in the Balkans' is likely to have me reaching for my wallet and this was no exception. The series ...

I was in Dumfries today for the Albanich 2016 show. I haven't been for a couple of years as it clashes with a work commitment, so a wel...

My latest fiction read is the latest, and possibly the last, in Gordon Doherty's fine Legionary series. I love classic historical fict...

One of a number of interesting Balkan anniversaries this year is the Battle of Manolada. It was fought on July 5, 1316...