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  • JJ's Wargames
    The Dalton Gang's Last Raid, Coffeyville, Kansas, 1892 - What a Cowboy! - Between Xmas and New Year, myself, Steve M, and Chas gathered at Chez Vince for another Wild West Adventure, picking up from our last gathering back on ...
    3 hours ago
  • Will's Wargames Blog
    Review of 2025 - part 1 - progress against plan - Rather a mixed year painting progress was slow with 1,439 items completed, previous years have been a lot higher, but there have been various distractions,...
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  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
    Von Brumovski Fubar - A bit of a balls up today when, after painting the tiny death's head insignia on the 1/600th scale Albatros D.III of Godwin Von Brumovski, I realised...
    15 hours ago
  • Trouble At T'Mill
    2025 - "The Taking of Linnius", a Dux Britanniarum battle scenario at Posh Lard 2025 Full marks to the astute who will have noticed that I set myself no hobby go...
    2 days ago
  • JOHN BOND's WARGAMING STUFF
    BRITISH AIRBORNE 28mm - Finally finished my British Airborne, these are lovely 28mm metal figures from Warlord Games. I initially purchased a 1/3 of the figures at MOAB bring an...
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  • NEWS FROM THE FRONT
    Orders? What Orders? - Just so I didn't get too complacent the dice gods gave me another kicking in our last game of 2025 today to make sure. A fairly static game the slow pace o...
    3 days ago
  • Doctor Phalanx
    2025 review - *A furious cavalry melee. From a Maurice War of Spanish Succession game with 18mm Wofun standees.*My main areas of focus this year have been *Eisenhowe...
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  • Over Open Sights
    Copplestone Bolsheviks - Bashkir Lancers - Utilising Copplestone RCW Bolshevik cavalry standard bearers to create a unit of Bashkir Lancers. Read all about them here: https://www.pygmywars.com/rc...
    5 days ago
  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    David Grummitt goes three for three - *[DISCLOSURE NOTICE: I corresponded with the author during his research for this book, and I receive an acknowledgement at the start of the book. I did n...
    1 week ago
  • Just Add Water
    Arrows vs Armour 3 - Forging the Arrowheads -
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  • Moiterei's bunte Welt
    3rd Century AD Roman Commanders - What would be a force, or battlegroup (I hate the use of the word army for a handful of miniatures), without its commanders? Looking back in time, reminisc...
    1 week ago
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    Saga Grande Melee - Just a month ago I competed in the 2025 Saga Grande Mélée that David K and our club has. This has been a very successful event in the past, and follows...
    1 week ago
  • Steven's Balagan
    Kind of Vargas Swamp – A Bolivar’s Very Bad Day Battle Report - Jamie came over to play test Bolivar’s Very Bad Day, my Liberators variant of Tilly’s Very Bad Day. I made up the scenario on the spot but it was loosely...
    2 weeks ago
  • Zinnkameraden
    Terrain: Some more Fields and Grasslands - Over the last couple of days I added some more pieces to my growing terrain collection; nothing spectacular, just a few wheat fields and grasslands. A ...
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    Into the Wasteland: Mutant Animals, Vehicles and Scatter Terrain - Work continues on my Fallout New Vegas project for the This Is Not A Test rules. Rather than another warband, I've recently been working on more dangero...
    4 weeks ago
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    Images - crazy situation - Hi Folks Just discovered that all my blog pictures for the past five years are no longer available to readers in the UK. As a result of recent legislat...
    1 month ago
  • A Terrible Loss of Lead and Wealth
    Vetcon AAR and Goodbyes - Time to go, But first, there's just enough time for a VetCon AAR. But just barely. *VetCon AAR* VetCon is a medium sized convention held in Auburn Ca...
    1 month ago
  • Crac des Chevaliers
    28mm Merrill's Marauders - Warlord figures, a couple of boxes of there Merrill's Marauders figures. Marauders, USMC Dog Teams on the far right. CdlT
    2 months ago
  • Tarleton's Quarter
    Nizam-i-Cedid (1) - This is the first unit of Ottoman infantry I painted - a unit of "boustangee" musketeers from the Nizam-i-Cedid army. This was a corps of infantry tra...
    6 months ago
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    Salute 2025 - OK, it's two days late but here is my photo round-up of Salute 2025. You can also take it as proof of life, given that I haven't posted here since last ...
    8 months ago
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    Midgard - Heroic Battles - Short post about my favouritr wargaming rules for the moment, Midgard - Heroic Battles by James Morris. I am not totally objective as I been involved in...
    9 months ago
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    Colonel Claude Runciman and Josefina Lacosta - I was suffering with "the Lurgy" this week but had a quick change from 6mm to 28mm. So I pulled out a couple of figures in the 28mm Napoleonic backlog t...
    10 months ago
  • Roundwood's World
    The Potentially Simmering Rivalry of Ping-Xi and Pong-Li - ******** "They're *just* the latest fashion. Everyone, and I mean *everyone* at the Imperial Court has taken a pair of Chinese bodyguards into their reti...
    11 months ago
  • A Lead Odyssey
    I hate basing... - Ok. It kind of makes sense to do all the basing at the same time... but this is just intimidating. It took 4 hours to do these with a mix of paint, gro...
    1 year ago
  • The Wargames Table
    Logs - Another quick post. Good chum Colin gifted these lovely resin pieces to me (thanks mate!). These were beautifully cast and very straightforward to paint us...
    2 years ago
  • much ado about nothing
    AWI: current state of affairs - As I've just recently stepped over the 50% mark on my AWI project for Sharp Practice, a couple of roll-call pics are appropriate.
    2 years ago
  • A Grab Bag of Games
    Goodbye WordPress – hello (again) Blogger - Folks After wrestling with the god-awful WordPress interface called Gutenburg for months, I am abandoning the WordPress platform. They had an excellent Cla...
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