Balkan Wargamer

Swordpoint is Gripping Beast's new big battle rules for the ancient and medieval period. This is a pretty crowded space, but one chased ...

Sunday was an opportunity to play once again with Scott's superb 10mm collection of forces for the Battle of Flodden 1513 - or as it s...

The latest Osprey Elite covers the history of the Barbary pirates. Written by Angus Konstam, who has written extensively on the subject of p...

This year is the centenary of the Russian revolution of 1917, so we can expect a fair few volumes on the subject. My first dabble has been H...

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...