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Mark's Game Room reviews Blood on the Sands - The excellent YouTube wargaming channel, Mark's Game Room, has done a review and a quick explanation of Blood on the Sands. Please show them some suppor...
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The Fritz Leiber WIKI - [Currently Reading] - ---------- 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 ...5 years ago
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A Tale of Two Battles - Part the First - The Italian infantry brigade. The only unit to come out of this with their heads held high. This is the first of two battle reports featuring my French ...
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Supplies to San Lorenzo .... - *San Lorenzo, lies near the border with the British territory of Malize..... The British have allied with some local natives attempt to disrupt one of the ...
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Character Figures and Settlers for the FIW - Conquest Miniatures put out a nice little blister of the main characters from the Last of the Mohicans, also released by Warlord Games. I had fun painti...
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Sources For The Interwar Gamer - I have been meaning to add some content here for a long time, apparently three years of a long time in fact, how time flies. So with this post I hope to k...8 years ago
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Stephen King’s Threshold - “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 . . ....8 years ago
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The Return of the Iron Duke - On Saturday, Nov. 21, six of us gathered at Jay's to fight a Napoleonic battle using a highly modified version of Command and Colors Napoleonics we laughin...
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High time... - 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...9 years ago
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Top (TV) Duels - To go with my posts on top one-on-one fights (in films) here's a quick selection from television. *#5* Agents of SHIELD (May vs. Ward) This was a fascinat...
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Memories, Tangents and the Power of the Pastoral - *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...
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Second World War comparisons on "World War 20mm" - 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...10 years ago
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Fauna - After a recent expedition "down under" a couple of new animals have been added to the national zoological gardens. *If I recall correctly these are from a R...
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Byzarbia at Ayton Game. - 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...
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Blog Harassment - I am sorry to say that I have had to select comment moderation as a permanent feature now. I am sick and tired of being harassed by a follower of this blog...13 years ago
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Buy my e-book and save the police (again!) - *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...14 years ago
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