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Happy New Year
Let me begin by wishing you all the very best for the New Year. It’s been such a long time since I last updated this blog, that it’s hard to remember precisely what I’ve been […]
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Wargamers’ cheese
Presenting wargamers with lots of choice might be affecting the ability of companies to sell to them effectively. So what are manufacturers in our hobby to do? […]
American Civil War
Getting there the fustest with the mostest…
Since Salute (Saturday 28th March), I can’t quite believe how busy I’ve been, and yet I have also managed to cram in three games in under two weeks. I won’t bore you with my recollections […]
BKC WW2 Western Desert
Now what’s he up to? North African campaign?
Dan and I had a terrific little game to refresh my memory about the Warmaster-derived rules. Within five minutes, I’d remembered the basic mechanisms and was sending my A13 Cruiser tanks whizzing around the flanks of his lumbering M13/40s. […]
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Back from the Front
I imagine that most people will have missed this short programme made my Jeremy Paxman for BBC News24. One World: Back from the Front is a short but very moving and enlightening piece, interviewing three […]
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Hear ye, hear ye!
And now for something completely different… No, it’s not Henry veering off on yet another tangential project, it’s an appearance on Neil Shuck’s Meeples and Miniatures podcast. I have been ‘sponsoring’ this podcast for a […]
American Civil War
I’m alive!
Okay, that’s probably a bit dramatic, but after more than five weeks of the gammy leg thing, compounded by tearing the calf muscle on the way to the bathroom a week ago (how unglamorous can […]
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Sell your what?
No, cellulitis. That’s what I’ve got, with a touch of thrombosis thrown in for free. And no, that’s not cellulite, either, the spongy, pitted skin that larger ladies of a certain age often suffer from. […]
Polls
Your wargaming preferences
WordPress have just introduced a new facility for creating polls, so I thought I’d plunge straight in during a coffee break from creating issue 15 of the magazine and try it out. So, please tick […]
Painting & Collecting
A new category for feedback
Issue 14 seems to have been very well received indeed, with Bob Barnetson’s calm and reasoned article on figure piracy and Barry Hilton’s suggestions for rapid painting techniques receiving particular praise. One reader, Steve Burt, […]