Warlord Games Pike & Shotte Ordnance Battery WIP
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Finally started on this set. Stained the crewmen with the can of Quickshade
Dark Tone a buddy gave me a couple of weeks ago. I figured the earthy
colors ...
A day at Eureka (2)
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Things have been very busy since I returned from Australia 5 weeks ago, but
I'm hoping regular blogging will resume. Before my recent holiday, it had
be...
Holiday part 2 - Housesteads to Cawfields
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A bit more of this weeks break . Today we did a visit to Housesteads fort
and a walk west to Cawfields and mile castle 42 .
We arrived for opening time...
Wavre 1815
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The Battle of Wavre, 18th June 1815 can be overshadowed by slightly grander
events to the west, where Napoleon met his Waterloo. But it can present a
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A Scene of Untimely Demise
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Just a very quick post this time, to showcase a rather macabre little
casualty stand that has been quietly waiting in the wings. When I was
looking to ...
Age of Invasion Campaign-Franks vs Britons (S3)
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Monday last, I got together at the David at my place for the third season
game in the Age of Invasions campaign. I decided to do a raid on the
Britons ...
Raid Viking
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*Bonjour à tous,*
*Aujourd'hui le Viking Benoit perturbe la quiétude du village saxon *
*de Ronie et de moi-même...Figurines 28mm...*
*Le matin s'...
Introducing 'ScrapJacks' to PaulOG via Discord
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Hi All,
I hosted PaulOG for a game of 'ScrapJacks' over Discord the other day and
he's written up a terrific post-game write-up. Check it out!
Cheers!
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Spring Cleaning April 2026
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I'll be selling a few surplus things- here I have 26 Avanpost Thirty Years
War cavalry, and two spare horses. They are beautiful, crips resin models,
...
The Cynical Seven - Desperados Gang
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*"The liquor's all gone boys..."*
Finished up my Desperados gang for Dead Man's Hand. Just a few pics to
share as I didn't get too many to turn out that ...
326 BC The Battle of Hydaspes
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Just posting a few images from the game we played yesterday afternoon, The
Battle of Hydaspes, where Alexanders veteran army fought the Indian King
Porus...
Seasons Greetings
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*Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas *
*& Happy New Year.*
2020 is a new decade in both life & wargaming. I might do a reflective
piece on that as w...
A Tale of Two Battles - Part the First
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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 ...
Grognards 1
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La Garde; a joint project with David Imrie and Lionel Bechara. These chaps
will eventually be going to the big Waterloo anniversary do in Glagsow in
the ...
Visit to Waterloo
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I was incredibly lucky to have had the chance to travel to 1 of our
Napoleonic bucket list battlefields this month. With 3 other Napoleonic
daft chaps we ...
Fun in the AWI, a 50th Birthday Bash!
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Down't club a few weeks ago having a most excellent AWI game (re-fighting
Germanstown) with all of Doug's magnificent AWI collection for his 50th. We
did t...
Borodino - taking Utilisa
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Last weekend we fought our annual game, this time focusing on the Poles and
the village of Utilisa at Borodino.
We think we may have set a world record for...
Front Rank Foot Yeomen
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Another unit for my Lion Rampant force. I painted these up as the retinue
of the Duke of Lorraine, and are probably more uniform than they would be
in actu...
ACW 8th South Carolina update.
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Hope you all had a good Xmas.
Just a quick update on the 8th Carolina. All the figures have been painted,
just waiting on the flag and base work.
It's com...
I am still alive!
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and this time I am painting Prussians!
It has been a long time since I posted anything so let me say that I am
glad to be back again!
2014 was a busy...
Games from the 2013 Congress
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A few pics of some of the games at the Napoleonic Congress this year
the brave frigate cops it form a first rate at close range!
French vs British Penins...
Saxe-Coburg Voltigeurs, 4th regiment of the Rhine
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The first two battalions for the 4th Rhinbund regiment included a voltigeur
company comprising of men supplied by the duchies of Saxe- Coburg-Saalfeld.
Thi...
Not miniatures!
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Greetings,
I just wanted to share with you some pictures from my visit to museum Musée
des canonniers from my recent trip to France.
If you want to see pi...
Link to 1813 Burgos Campaign
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The next phase of the 1813 campaign will be in North West Spain and will
deal with Wellington’s attempt to take the city of Burgos from the French
I h...
Six player corps sized game
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This Tuesday six of us gathered at our club for a "big game" of General de
Brigade. We had set up a table 180cm deep and 480cm long (6x16'). I, Nisse
and M...
A Couple of Short Scraps
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It's been a couple of weeks since my last post but we have still been
playing out the campaign in the meantime. Our battle at Markendorf
finished prematur...
Link to 1813 Tortosa Campaign
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The next phase of the 1813 campaign will be in north east Spain and will
deal with the Spanish attempt to take the city of Tortosa.
I have started a new b...