Roncesvaux again
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We fought a game based upon this battle again yesterday. A lighter armed
Basque force took on heavier armed Franks in the Pyrenees. The players
swopped ...
New Nassau Infantry from Frank
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Our Hobbymate Thomas Mischak asked Frank to sculpt him some Nassau
Grenadiers for his Waterloo project.
These figures will be available from Hagen soon...
A Wings of Glory Mat
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*Measuring 39’ by 27” the above depicts a town built around a river. The
mat itself is neoprene so it rolls up nicely and stays flat when deployed
on the...
Bed B, Side Room 4, Ward 22 (Part 1)
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I was transferred to a bed in a side room of Ward 22 of the Queen Elizabeth
Hospital, Woolwich, at dinner time on Tuesday evening. There was another
pati...
Small is Beautiful
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Like a lot of gamers, I've long had a bad case of *cartophilia. *Truth be
told, my love of maps predates my involvement in the hobby of roleplaying.
From...
More Staff for the Duke
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I did say that the Belgians would be up next however, I realised a while
back that I had never finished the personality figures for the British. So
as a ...
ONE LOVELY DRAWING , part 71
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Franklin Booth (1874-1948) learned to draw by studying wood engravings in
magazines while he was growing up on a farm in Indiana. He mistakenly
thought ...
Valuable Insights into Gettysburg
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When we are confronted by an esteemed scholar, a man with his sensitive
fingers right on the pulse of history, we are obliged to listen. It would
be sac...
Game Slots Available For Saturday's Game
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*Union artillery battery on Cemetery Ridge*
It looks like tickets for my Pickett's Charge games for Thursday and Friday
are sold out, however there ...
Foxholes
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I found a bag of these resin-cast troops in foxholes in a batch of stuff I
was given a couple of years ago. A few weeks ago I decided to try painting
so...
Traffic Chaos on the Autobahn.
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A collection of no less that 5 of the Tantobie Warfare and Tactical Society
met last Saturday at our new venue of Stanley Masonic hall. (Does the
change of...
Creating Skyfire
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A real favourite of mine from the cartoon was Skyfire. He was a huge space
jet and dwarfed every other bot of the time. I didn't think I'd find a good
mo...
We Pause This Blog For
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*Tax Time*! (*Oh joy*)
One last photo from the first playtest. Lessons have been learned and
progress made. Now it's time to figure out what we owe Cae...
Portable Ligny - Looking Back...
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It was whilst reading Marin Rapier's own One Hour Ligny, and how that
Portable Wargame went, that I began to look back at my own version, played
out some...
Easter Big Game - Grave to Nijmegen - Days 3 and 4
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Easter Monday past by very quickly and I failed to take enough pictures of
the action. At last Guards Armoured had arrived but their progress was
slowed by...
An Italian Wars scenario for Pike and Shotte
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What follows is a short report on a recent game at Steve's. It is over
two years since an Italian Wars game featured on the blog, so a
reappearance was...
Happy Easter from the Grand Duchy of Stollen!
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Still limping along here in the Grand Duchy although real life has managed
to elbow it's way to the head of the queue these last few months, getting ...
Battlemasters with Kinchlets
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*"Pay attention Sir Harry, the Hun is here, here and here." - LadyBaby*
Finished up a practice game of the old MB Games/Citadel miniatures game
Battlemast...
Blood on the Sands Custom Dice
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A good mate has made me a few sets of prototype dice for Blood on the
Sands. I'm very keen to try them out when next demoing BotS. Each player
only requ...
Merry Christmas 2023 and Always
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This painting arrived as a Christmas card a few days ago. It is the most
beautiful depiction of love and adoration of Jesus by heavenly angels and
his...
Very Sad News
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I'm very sorry to be making this post but I've just learned that Dale past
away from a heart attack on November 5th.
Most of my relationship with Dale wa...
Happy Birthday Joseph Morschauser III
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Another year is almost in the books and today is Christmas Day… This isn’t
a Christmas story, but it is a story (article) written by a man born in New
York...
Trying Something New
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Based on what I said last time, I’m going to try out something new. Check
out my posts at Medium – one test you can ignore, one discussion of why I
chose t...
Wargaming the interwar period
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*CROSSPOSTED FROM WARGAMING MISCELLANY*
This year’s VCOW (Virtual Conference of Wargamers) took place over the
weekend, and I was able to take part in se...
The Constantinov Regiment
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Whilst I have, for the most part, 'moth-balled' my Classic Wargaming
collection over the past few years, occasionally I get the urge to dip back
into it....
Point Defence part two
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*The other Indian section are becoming more and more pinned down. *
*While the Bengal Lancers come under a withering fire from the central
ruin.*
*To make...
Alas - no more ....
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After a lot of thought I have decided to stop my gaming project in the
Caribbean for the foreseeable future.
The bulk of the completed units will become in...
The Fritz Leiber WIKI - [Currently Reading]
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---------- The Fritz Leiber WIKI Welcome to the Scrolls of Lankhmar. It
contains information on the writings of and also the RPG Guide to Nehwon,
which is ...
A Tale of Two Battles - Part the Second
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After the battle recorded in the previous post, I felt I had unfinished
business with Paul and his Russians, so I challenged him to a game the
followin...
Problems with Jackson Gamers Web Site
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We are having problems accessing and updating the Jackson Gamers web site.
Evidently the main page has been "stolen" by a French language pharmacy
site. ...
Hot Reception
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Gun and crew by Hinchliffe (SYW range)Christmas is an anxious time if
you're Hessian - but this year we're ready for you Mr Washington!
Battlegroup Tobruk Goes Strong into the Desert
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Pavlov's dogs, famously, were conditioned to salivate when hearing a bell
which they associated with food. I have been similarly conditioned to
associate...
Happy Winter Solstice!
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I decided I might as well face the truth, that this blog and project is
pretty much over and done. It was fun while it lasted, but my gaming
interests lie ...
Sky Pirates of Venus - Teaser
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Sky Pirates have been the scourge of the Worm Empire of Venus for years,
and the Great Worm has had enough! He sends a team of four crack worm
commandos to...
Stephen King’s Threshold
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“There is probably no dedicated fantasy fan in America who doesn’t have at
least one of those distinctive black-bound volumes upon his or her shelf .
. ....
High time...
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It is high time I posted here again. The project has stalled. Last night I
decided to have a read of book 2 after many years away from it. It begins
so wel...
La Passeggiata
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Artist: ItalianTitle: La *Passeggiata*
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Deadbeat Advertiser?!?!?!?
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I just noticed that I have been listed as a deadbeat advertiser at The
Miniatures Page. I asked Mr Armintrout over 12 months ago to cease the
advertising d...
Memories, Tangents and the Power of the Pastoral
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*Charles Stadden 30mm BEF released fifty(ish) years ago*
It occurs to me that wargaming the Great War is not going to be a straight
forward thing.
L...
Second World War comparisons on "World War 20mm"
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Piers Brand has recently posted a side by side shot of several figures
painted in his inimitable style. They represent a number of different 20mm
metal ma...
Byzarbia at Ayton Game.
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Once again it's been a while, though in my defence I plead that I have been
busy painting figures for our second Ayton Weekend Game, even forgoing two
of o...
Buy my e-book and save the police (again!)
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*Wasting Police Time** is now available on Kindle.
You don't need a Kindle itself to read it - you can download an 'app' onto
your iPad/laptop/whatever.
U...
10 of the most beautiful things I've ever seen
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1. The sun setting over a still sea, woven to silk, and the swimmers,
silhouttetted wading back to the shore like merman returning to land.
2. My br...
Why the WAR OF 1812?
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I just received two of the more recent Osprey Men-at Arms books on the War
of 1812 in the mail the other day (not really that recent - 1998 and
2000...but...
I've been working nights for the week and have had little chance to do much of anything, domestic concerns have held sway. The Tyranny of work, study and home as been near total.
I was sent the above video the night before last and it cheered me mightily.
There has been little progress on the wargaming front, though I intend to make some inroads into my Indian project during my next few days off and get my Waterloo PBEM campaign in order.
I have yet to pick a name for my Indian kingdom and have done relatively little reading for the project beyond casting an eye over the Osprey on the battle of Assaye. I think Donald Featherstones "Colonial Warfare: India" and the always fascinating "Encyclopedia of 19th Century Warfare" by Byron Farwell will be my first ports of call. What I think I'll do is work out what sort of games I want to play, then puzzle out what sort of military establishment will allow me to play those games and then design the principality to suit.
Based on what I've read thus far, I think my hypothetical Raja will have a force made up of...
Compoos - Indian troops drilled in the European style with battalion guns.
Bargirs - Heavy cavalry with lances, mail, etc.
Silladars - Medium (?) cavalry, a sort of light cavalry under discipline.
Pinadari - Rampaging cossack types, who fulfill the traditional role of hussars without the magnificent hats.
War Elephants - The need I feel for one of these defies all reason and sense.
Sredni Vashtar Cultists - These gentry will almost certainly bear a striking resemblance to the Kali cultists from Temple of Doom.
That's brilliant!..."more intelligent kind of girl"...right, I've finished setting them out according to my 'Generalship', time for a fag!
I am supposed to have some of his collection in mine, I bought some 20mm Merten from Stad's in the States which he stated were from the sale of Peter's stuff, but there was no provenance when they arrived, the lot didn't bear much relationship to Stad's description and couldn't be tied to the original (Christie's - I think?) lot descriptions either, but it's nice to think I have some!
Anyone recognize either the paints he was using, or the reference booklets, 'cause they weren't Osprey?
That's brilliant!..."more intelligent kind of girl"...right, I've finished setting them out according to my 'Generalship', time for a fag!
ReplyDeleteI am supposed to have some of his collection in mine, I bought some 20mm Merten from Stad's in the States which he stated were from the sale of Peter's stuff, but there was no provenance when they arrived, the lot didn't bear much relationship to Stad's description and couldn't be tied to the original (Christie's - I think?) lot descriptions either, but it's nice to think I have some!
Anyone recognize either the paints he was using, or the reference booklets, 'cause they weren't Osprey?
How is Mrs. Kinch doing? Hopefully things are progressing in a positive direction.
ReplyDelete-- Jeff
That is so cool! And old school. :)
ReplyDeleteI like the line about it being like chess but more exciting. :D
Ah, Sredni Vashtar. I had nearly forgotten about that bit of Saki. What a great name for an evil cult in the subcontinent!