A Battlegames Special Guest Post by Sean Souter An unbroken expanse of open desert has long been a fixture of military campaigns in North Africa, but it makes for a bleak and uninteresting wargaming table. Here’s a tutorial to get scratch…
Yesterday, I took a trip to what is, more or less, my local show, organised by the Tunbridge Wells Wargames Society* but taking place in neighbouring Tonbridge (yes, I know it’s tricky, do keep up!). The weather was glorious, if…
Fellow imagi-nations gamer Iain Burt came to play in the Loftwaffe, bringing his beautifully painted Gateway Alliance army with him. You can see an album of photos taken during the day on Flickr here. All the figures in the game…
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At 3.33 am this morning, I launched the Battlegames Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/battlegames where you can read all the details about how the scheme works and the goals I am setting. As I write this, pledges have just passed the $70…
Welcome back folks, and the surprise opening gambit for 2018 has been not wargaming stuff as such, but a couple of videos I’ve done focusing on health issues for wargamers, board gamers, video gamers, writers and, in fact, anyone who…
Transatlantic wargaming buddy Jay Arnold recently gave me the chance to speak freely (don’t I always?) on the subject of my forthcoming book for Pen & Sword, Wargaming Campaigns. You can listen to the podcast right here using the link…
This is my new, imaginary sub-continent of Dahlia and Chindrastan. I have created it for forthcoming wargaming campaigns, but it also forms a critical part of my next book for Pen & Sword, because I have been describing in…
This lengthy post comes on the anniversary of one of the largest battles fought on the European mainland – Königgrätz, also known as Sadowa, in the Austro-Prussian “seven week’s” War, fought on July 3rd-4th, 1866. Nearly a quarter of a…
“It may be a personal thing, but the digital version just doesn’t quite cut it for me. I can’t get excited about finding old spreadsheets. Can you?”
