Balkan Wargamer

The Pikeman's Lament  is the new pike and shot variant to Daniel Mersey's popular Lion Rampant rules. I love these rules, so I was ...

This is not so much a new Osprey as me catching up. Warrior 175 by Ross Cowan takes the story of the Roman legionary up to the age of Diocle...

My latest fiction read has been The Serpent Sword by Matthew Harffy - the first in his Bernicia Chronicles. The setting is Dark Ages Berni...

The best bit about returning to work is a lunchtime spending my book tokens on real books in a proper bookshop. The first read of my signifi...

The last painting session of the holidays included some more character figures from the Conan board game. These include Conan himself, the w...

Happy New Year! May your dice always roll six (except when that’s a blunder!) and your paint pots never run dry this year. I have been ...

I decided to give Sharp Practice 2 another go over the holidays. Also an opportunity to dust down another PoW army I haven't used for so...

My fiction reading this holiday has been Robert Conroy's Germanica . This is alternative WW2 history. The essence of the story is that...

The final part of the Osprey pre-xmas Balkan trilogy is Austro-Hungarian Cruisers and Destroyers 1914-18 by Ryan Noppen. The Austro-Hungar...

Part two of Osprey's end of year Balkan spree is Byzantine Naval forces 1261-1461 by Raffaele D'Amato. After the fall of Constant...

Osprey had a bit of a Balkan splurge prior to xmas, providing me with a pile of holiday reading. I started with World War II Croatian Legi...

My Xmas game was an opportunity to revisit Open Combat since getting the nice new glossy hardback and dice as part of the kickstarter. For t...

' Chosen Men' is a new set of skirmish rules for the Napoleonic Wars, written by Mark Latham and published by Osprey. Mark used to...