Game Reports
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.” […]
Imagi-Nations
Battlegames
Wars of the Faltenian Succession Compilation On Sale Now
Fans of the 18th Century, and imagi-nations in particular, have been asking me for some time to create a compilation of all twelve of my articles that first appeared in issues 1-12 of Battlegames. Well, […]
Campaigns
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 […]
Campaigns
New Regimental Colours for Borschtian Infantry
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 […]
Campaigns
The Pescadrix Sun, 6th April 1748
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 […]
Imagi-Nations
Pescadrix Times Newsflash: Assassination Attempt!
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 […]
Campaigns
Tension Grows in Granprix
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, […]
Campaigns
A Campaign Newbie Question
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 […]
Game Reports
Photos from B-Day in Byzarbia
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 […]
Imagi-Nations
Memories of Peter Laing
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 […]