Balkan Wargamer

My latest fiction reading has been The Madagascar Plan by Guy Saville. His first book in the series Africa Reich , was the very first book ...

My painting has fallen behind of late. All of the usual excuses, but also I do better when I have a target like a show. My next big project ...

Self evidently a book with the title ‘ The Norman Campaigns in the Balkans 1081-1108 ’ is going to be on my must read list. The story of th...

I didn't have enough time today to get up to Forfar for Skelp, so I went to the Glasgow Modelfest IPMS show at Bellahouston. Some very f...

My latest Sharp Practice game takes us back to the 18th Century, with the British in India fighting the Mughals around the time of Plassey i...

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 ...