Posts relating to wargaming the period from about 1685 through to 1865.
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 […]
Not content to slave over a hot map, I’ve also had my thinking cap on fielding questions about the Shot, Steel & Stone rules we’ll be using next weekend and wielding Photoshop on behalf of […]
INVASION? April has hardly begun, but it seems the belligerents are keen to have at one another. First of all, we had reports of shots being fired in the bay north of Castell Sebastian, currently […]
4th April 1748 News has just reached us that an attempt has been made this afternoon on the life of General E Pickled of the Gateway Alliance. Early reports suggest that an individual fired a […]
The citizens of little Granprix are gathering in coffee shops, inns and hostelries, and the buzz of conversation flows out into the streets, around the squares in towns and villages, along the pews in churches, […]
One of the participants in this year’s Ayton imagi-nations campaign has asked a question that is so screamingly obvious that I kick myself for having made the assumption that he knew what was required. An […]
What with all the mad workload, the changeover of the magazines and whatnot, it’s only now I realise that neither Battlegames nor MWBG ever carried a proper report of the Ayton 2012 weekend. Nor, it […]
Anyone remember Peter Laing 15mm figures? I sent the few I had to a new home a few years ago, but I noticed that Bob Cordery has been posting on his blog about them, so […]
Regular visitors and Battlegames readers will be familiar with my fondness not only for the eighteenth century, but also for what are nowadays known as ‘imagi-nations’ in particular. Elsewhere on this site you will find […]
As with any project, months go by and then suddenly, you realise that there’s almost no time left at all! Indeed, since Annie and I will be setting off tomorrow (we’re staying near Nottingham overnight […]
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