Today would have been the Partizan show at Newark Showground. But of course, whilst we are in lockdown and social distancing conditions due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the show was not able to go ahead as planned – see my…
Category: Game Reports
A Busy Weekend Part 2: the Don Featherstone Tribute
At lunchtime on Saturday 23rd March, I made my farewells to the friendly crowd at the Come and have A Go if You Think You’re Lard Enough event in Southampton (read my part 1 report here), fired up the Battlebus…
A Busy Weekend Part 1: the Full Lard Experience
There’s been a lot going on lately and I’m a very busy boy, but I wanted to let you know about the two events I attended last weekend that saw me racking up a couple of hundred miles in the…
Lessons Learned from a Teaser
It’s been while since I last posted here. No apologies—the Patreon venture, together with other work commitments, book writing and life stuff, has demanded all my attention and, as we all know, one only has so much energy to go…
Schwitz Face the Gateway Alliance in Table Top Teaser Tussle
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…
Sawmill Village Imagi-Nations Game
Iain Burt came down from darkest Essex to play our once-a-year dust-up, featuring hundreds of 30mm Spencer Smiths (and this year some Holger Erikssons too). We chose Charles S Grant’s “Chance Encounter” scenario from Scenarios for Wargames (1981). The rules…
Ayton 2016: Games for the Weekend
Speaking now as the umpire of the campaign, rather than as a roving reporter, I can tell you that the last few days have been incredibly busy, preparing for the weekend and collating the scores of emails coming my way…
Ambush at Ubbynedre
Juulsborg, 29th April 1750 News has just reached us of a sharp action which took place on 27th April at Ubbynedre near Riemannsborg. It appears that cavalry advance guards from the Medetian army on the one side, and Altefritzenburg…
Table Top Teaser with Mark Phillips
The screams were terrible as my left flank opened up with cannon and musketry. “Be quiet, Mark”, I said, “I’m trying to work out the casualties.”
Post-Ayton Recovery
I shall write about the weekend in Ayton at greater length, but I just wanted to say that yet again, it exceeded all my expectations and was as fine an example of “the spirit of wargaming” in action as one…