Balkan Wargamer

My latest reading has been Andrew Field’s book ‘Waterloo: The French Perspective’. It’s an old adage that history is written by the win...

First try yesterday of the latest Osprey Wargames rules, ' The Men Who Would Be Kings '. These are written by Daniel Mersey, the aut...

I do enjoy an alternative history, and my latest reading has been Year of the Prince by George Kearton.  As he says in the introduction...

Time to return to other painting projects after doing little other than Pancho Villa. For Game of Thrones, I have switched from Saga to Lion...

I was listening to one of the highly recommended History Network podcasts on my Sunday morning walk. This one covered the history of the t...

This is the second book in the 'Blood of Kings' series by K.M.Ashman. I reviewed the first one, 'A Land Divided', in June. ...

Recent events in Turkey reminded me to dust down my 1/300th micro armour collection of modern Turkish forces, together with the Greeks, for ...

This month is the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Peterwardein in 1716. The Austrian's, led by Prince Eugene, defeated the Ottoman ...

My holiday fiction reading was '2017 War with Russia' by General Sir Richard Shirreff. He is a former Deputy Supreme Allied Commande...

My second game of Sharp Practice 2 was in traditional Sharp territory - the Peninsular War. Two 70 point armies. The 'French' were...

I am not a huge fan of board wargames, but I am inevitably drawn to one covering a Balkan subject. So, I was parted with my cash at Claymor...

Heading back from a trip to my Mum’s we stopped off at Evesham, site of the decisive battle of the Second Baron’s War on 4 August 1265. ...

It was the Claymore show in Edinburgh today. A good collection of traders and a balance between display and participation games. We did a pa...