Balkan Wargamer

This book by Sheila Lawlor looks at the political decisions taken by Churchill and the War Cabinet in the early period of the war when Brita...

As I start to develop my Oathmark nations, I remembered that I have some unpainted fantasy figures in the Conan game box that I backed on ...

The full title of this book by Nicholas Rankin is, ' Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914 - 1945' . While ...

When I was a young lad, before videos and Netflix (yes I am getting on a bit!), the Christmas holidays meant classic films on the TV. There ...

My latest lockdown painting has been to expand my late Saxon forces. I have a reasonable collection of armoured types, but it was time to as...

This week's lockdown Zoom game pitched two fearsome women against each other. Largertha and her Viking Warband against Aethelflaed and t...

I am making serious inroads into my 'to read' shelf. Although if it's anything like my lead mountain, there won't be space f...

Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians is Margaret Jones' study of the daughter of Alfred the Great who becam...

This is Roderick Bailey's study of SOE operations in Albania during WW2. Albania was a secondary area of operations compared to Greece a...

I am not a big fantasy player, but when in the mood, Dragon Rampant usually scratches the itch. However, I thought I would give Joseph McCul...

This book is Michael Schmitz's overview of Roman engagements on the Danube frontier from the first landings in Illyria, to the end of th...

This week's lockdown painting has been focused on 'finishing' the Soviet army for Fortress Budapest.  First up are the Soviet ...

This week's wargame with Zoom was the Battle of Doiran. Not the better known First World War epic, but the earlier clash in the Second B...

No, it's not a new movie, but this week's lockdown painting. The last two units of my Hungarian army for WW2. 'Last' is, of ...

' Commando Crusade ' is the wartime memoir of Major-General Thomas Churchill. No relation to Winston, although the Germans, who capt...