[Review] Baccus 6mm Punic Wars Range
Another review, this time of my latest batch of figures (a present from my wife) which arrived this week. After being impressed by the new Age of Hannibal rules (see last post), I decided my next...
View Article[Review] Age of Hannibal
Those who read my last post will know all about littlewarstv and their youtube channel, and will have seen me mention a new game they’ve just released (well, earlier this year), Age of Hannibal. Having...
View Article[Review] Little Wars TV (youtube channel)
Something a little different for this post – not a review of figures, or some new rules, or a show and tell of one of my armies, or even an AAR of a recent game. Not even a rant either! Instead, this...
View Article10mm Pendraken 19th Century figures: A small review – Part 1
I got a few figures from Pendraken recently to have a look-see after buying the Bloody Big Battles rules for the mid 19th Century. Having chatted to Leon over at Pendraken, he was happy to send me a...
View ArticleConsidering some future projects
I’ve been thinking of future projects lately, which makes perfect sense since the projects I’m currently working on have been put aside lately due to real life time constraints. These are things I’d...
View Article[Review] Krieg Ohne Hass
I managed to snaggle a copy of these rules a few weeks ago, published by Lance Flint (a frequent contributor to the Honour Forum run by Sam Mustafa), and available from Magister Militum among other...
View Article[Review] Aurelian
I’ve played a couple of test games now of Sam Mustafa’s new game Aurelian, so thought I’d do a quick review. It’s both similar to and a departure from Sam’s other games; players who have played other...
View Article[Forged in Battle] War and Empire II Kickstarter has begun.
Just a quick post to let people know that the second Forged in Battle 15mm Ancients kickstarter has started. I really like the figures I got from the first one they did (reviewed here) so I made sure...
View Article[Longstreet / Sword and Spear]
Just a quick update to put up some pics of stuff I’ve been working on recently. Well, sort of recently. I did the artillery and cavalry a good few months back now, but only got around to gluing them to...
View Article[Sword and Spear] Photomontage time!
Had a few battles of the last few weeks that I haven’t had time to write up properly, so instead thought I’d do a captioned photo post. I also got in a game of Bluecher with Ernie, but since that was...
View Article[Forged in Battle] War and Empire kickstarter figures, a review
I backed the War and Empire kickstarter campaign by Forged in Battle a while ago, which was very successful, and ended up with quite a lot of figures as a result which arrived a month or two ago. Since...
View Article[Sword and Spear] More Mongols vs HYW English
Had another bash against Dan’s Mongols with my HYW English last week. Dan was looking for revenge after our initial outing, when he was soundly defeated. This time he came a little closer, but the...
View Article[Bluecher] A review
Bluecher, Sam Mustafa’s new game, is out now, and after a short test game, I thought I’d give my opinion of these grand scale Napoleonic rules. First of all, some background: I first bought Sam’s Grand...
View Article[Sword and Spear] Yet Another Hundred Years War AAR
Had yet another HYW bash this week, introducing Dave to the game. He’d played once before, but that was a while ago. Once more I split the forces into the usual lists, with some of my English proxied...
View ArticleBluecher early start part 2: More French Infantry.
Been doing some more work on my Napoleonic French for the last couple of weekends, and managed to get another four brigades done. The next four are glued to painting sticks and undercoating is...
View Article[Misc] The State of the Lemming
Time for a yearly round up, I think. I’m splitting this into Painting, Games Played, Future Projects and Misc. Painting At the start of the year I painted up my 15mm Rangers for Musket and Tomahawks,...
View Article[Sword and Spear] Another outing for the Hundred Years War armies
Had a magnificent game of Sword and Spear with my old mate Ernie last night at Meeplemart, and it was by far the closest game I’ve played. We used the standard forces I’ve been using for these forces,...
View ArticleBluecher early start, and a Sword and Spear photo montage.
Did a few stands of 6mm Napoleonic French for the last few weekends, partly in readiness for the release of Bluecher next year from Sam Mustafa (author or Lasalle, Grand Armee, Might and Reason,...
View Article[Sword and Spear] A Loss and (at last!) a Win!
I got a couple of games of S&S in over the last few weeks, the first a 351 points HYW noobfest playing Anthony at the old club, the second a 500 point English vs Mongols noobfest against Dan. I...
View Article[Sword and Spear] AAR: Hundred Years War II
I umpired another game of Sword and Spear as a demo last week, with Alex taking on the role of the French and Thorsteinn taking on the role of the English. As with the other games I’ve played or...
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