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  • Jim's Wargames Workbench
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    Sharp Practice-French Indian War - A couple of weeks 4 of us got together are the Abyss for a game of Sharp Practice. This was my turn to host. I had only arrived in Montreal late the ni...
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  • Just Add Water
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    Colours 2026 - Newbury & Reading Wargames Society. - I had the pleasure of spending Saturday 5th September in company with friends from the Devon Wargamers at this year's Colours in Newbury, which tends to ...
    5 days ago
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  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    Evaluating WotR rules Take Two. Bloody Barons 2020 - As previously trailed this was supposed to be a game of Armati, but I dumped it because...well I wrote a blog explaining why. I have a stack of rules to ...
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  • JOHN BOND's WARGAMING STUFF
    WINTER SOVIET 28mm DSHK HMG, Maxium MMG, 50mm mortar, Sniper, FO, MEDIC and ANTI-TANK RIFLE .... PART 2 - Finished painting my supports for my Winter Support units, I have covered the base of the figures with a white grey wash as I have not yet decided how I ...
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    Barons' War additions (16) - Before our family vacation next week, I've been working my way through the last few Barons' War figures that I had in the pile of potential/mountain of s...
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    Germanic Archers for Midgard Heroic Battles - Once again I lost my Mojo and to be fair I'm still struggling on that front. But on the bright side I actually finished a base of figures that were gatheri...
    2 weeks ago
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    Sahel Conflicts: Toytoa Technicals - Another set of vehicles that were part of the unpainted pile of shame. I received these two Toyota techincals as part of Miska Miniatures North African ...
    2 weeks ago
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    Knights, Danzig, and an Emperor’s Pet Elephant: A Crash Course in Impetus - Not too long ago, Max and I received an exclusive introduction to *Impetus* at the clubhouse of "Zamgwürfelt" in Munich, hosted by Bernhard and Bernhard,...
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    3 months ago
  • Doctor Phalanx
    Bloody Big Battles! with lighter-coloured hills - It was pointed out in the *Bloody Big Battles!* Groups.io group that the hills in my last post ought to appear lighter than the lower ground, and certai...
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    The Miller's Tale - Episode 14 - Episode 14, in which Mike gets to have a guest back again! Yes, it's James Morris, back again to explain how Midgard Heroic Battles has been going, what'...
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    10 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...
    1 year 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...
    1 year 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...
    3 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.
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  • 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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