Balkan Wargamer

Less than a week to go before Claymore and it's time to test the game. Well a cut down version. The scenario puts the participants in co...

The use of aircraft was one of a number of military innovations in the Mexican revolution. Soon after the revolution broke out, US based e...

The start of my summer break is an opportunity to finish the Pancho Villa project. More a gallop to the finish line for Claymore, rather th...

My latest reading has been Clive Aslet's novel 'The Birdcage'. Perhaps not my usual genre, but I was drawn to it because it take...

I have always had a soft spot for trains, so an opportunity to mix them in with wargaming is too good to miss. Our GDWS participation game a...

My latest reading has been Charles Spencer's biography of Prince Rupert. I had a vague understanding of Prince Rupert's early years,...

Back from my Balkan travels and it's time to get down to some serious painting. When a show is months away, you think, plenty of time to...

My holiday. fiction read has been K.M.Ashman's 'A Land Divided' the first in the 'Blood of Kings' series about early med...

My holiday non-fiction read was appropriately, as I was in the country, ' Greece, The Decade of War ' by David Brewer. This is a new...

No visit to Macedonia would be complete without a visit to the key sites of the Kingdom of Macedonia. Let's start with the capital Pella...

I haven't had a lot of luck on this trip when it comes to museums run by the Greek army. Firstly, the Lachanas museum was closed when it...

I had the pleasure of visiting another battlefield I have read and written about - Lake Doiran on the Greek-Macedonian border. In August 191...

Over the years I have written about and played a number of wargames based on the Struma Valley campaign in Macedonia during WW1. Between 191...

Yesterday I visited the site of the Battle of Kilkis-Lachanas, fought between Greek and Bulgarian armies over three days in June 1913.  This...