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Partizan Part Deux
It’s been a busy few days since the Partizan 2019 show on Sunday, but at last I’ve got the chance to catch up and give you a rather more in-depth report. I had fully intended […]
Miscellaneous
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Partizan 2019
This is a ‘live’ post from the Newark showground in Nottinghamshire so that I can show you pics taken during the first couple of hours of the show during my initial reconnaissance of the Partizan […]
Combat Stress Appeal
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 […]
Business announcements
For the Sake of Auld Lang Syne…
As I begin to write this, it is 17:08 on 31st December 2018. The end of the year is traditionally a time to both reflect on the preceding twelve months and to speculate on what […]
Battlegames
Twenty Years of Battlegames
On 18thJune, 1998—Waterloo Day—I pressed the launch button on a site that was to dominate my life in one way or another for the next 20 years. I look back now at that first version […]
Battlegames
The Tactical Tutor Part 1
The Tactical Tutor Part 1 It Depends… by Jay Arnold, The Veteran Wargamer “Plans mean nothing. Planning is everything.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower Recently, Our ‘Enry wrote an article in Issue 93 of Wargames, Soldiers […]
Battlegames
Siggins Is Back – A Much-Missed Wargames Voice Returns
Mike Siggins was a well-known, popular and sometimes controversial figure on the wargaming scene for many years. He ran his own boardgames magazine SUMO from 1989-1998, and as a miniatures wargamer, was a monthly columnist […]
Battlegames
The Joy of Wargames Deadlines (2)
Deadlines are powerful things. I can’t think of any other explanation for the fact that I have 160 Gripping Beast plastic infantry and 36 cavalry assembled on my table and awaiting an undercoat just 72 […]
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The Joy of Wargame Deadlines
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Battlegames Now Live On Patreon
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 […]