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Force on Force: FUBAR in Falafel!
With Phil away on his annual August holibobs, Andy and I like to sneak in some games that don't appeal to Phil, and as I started looking at what we played this year I realised that I had not got around...
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Battlegroup NORTHAG: Clash at Petersberg
Despite plans to get at least one game of Battlegroup NORTHAG in a month in 2026, it was almost eight before Andy and I got the 6mm Cold War toys back on the table. After the failure of the Soviets to...
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Italian Wars: Imperial Landsknecht Pike Block II
It's taken a little longer than planned but I finished a second Landsknecht pike block for my Imperial army for the Italian Wars. Like the first the miniatures are all from Warlord Games excellent...
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Sharp Practice: The Man From Peshwarinaan
As a follow up to playing Andy's'Man From Del Monte' scenario in the Peninsular, Phil and I decided to transport it to Bengal and replay it during the Indian Mutiny with the British trying to identify...
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AIrWarC21: Middle East Planes...
Andy has been unsubtly hinting he wanted to play some games of AirWar: C21 for a little while now so I dug out some Mirages and MiG-21's to paint up for a quick game set during the Arab-Israeli...
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Italian Wars: Imperial Landsknecht Pike Block
Interrupted as they have been by the Barons' War and some 6mm Moderns (update coming soon) I have managed to finish the first pike block for the Italian Wars project. Whilst we will be using the On...
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First Barons' War: Army of God and Holy Church
Last year I picked up Écorcheurs! as Andy had expressed an interest in playing some medieval games and watching the videos online it seemed a good gateway - whilst it only needed about 20 figures a...
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On Bloody Ground: Tōdæg is Gōd Dæg tō Forþfaran!
The end of June saw (what I think was) the inaugural On Bloody Ground Day at Bristol Independent Gaming where about a dozen of us gathered to play some Norman Conquest games. Borrowing part of Phil's...
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Italian Wars: Imperial Landsknecht Zweihänder and Pike
Despite the hot weather I managed to keep going with the Warlord Games Landsknechts, completing half the first pike block - the third rank comprising of zweihänder (what they call Great Swords in...
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Sharp Practice: L'uomo del Monte...
With Bristol melting in the last heatwave (as opposed to the current one) Phil offered to host Andy and I at Chez Turner rather than play our usual weekly game down BIG (which would have been full of...
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Italian Wars: Imperial Landsknecht Arquebusiers
I really shouldn't listen to Phil, but somehow he convinced me that the Italian Wars should be the next big project! Initially I was going to cheat a little and crack on with my long planned Swiss army...
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Aeronef: Battle of Britain 1890
As last week Paul (or Yours In A White Wine Sauce fame on Facebook) liked (some) of these photos from a Twitter post I did about an Aeronef game played back in November 2021(!), I thought I'd dig out...
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Through The Mud And The Blood: The Farmhouse at Freshford
It'd been a little while since we'd visited the Very British Civil War, but earlier in the month Andy took Phil and myself back to 1930's where we found the British Union of Fascists on a chicken...
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On Bloody Ground: Blod Mína Feónda!
A couple of weeks back I popped down to Phil's for another Dark Ages game of On Bloody Ground, this time the Saxons were tasked with saving Englalande from the depredations of Phil's pudding bowl...
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On Bloody Ground: Hāl to Englalande!
The year of our lord ten-sixty something, the kingdom is once again assailed by the heathen Norsemen, raping the cattle and pillaging the women! Led by the valkyrie Jenny, all that stood between...
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Sharp Practice: Escort Mission to Dalpartha!
Apologies for the lack of blog updates, hopefully this after action report of a recent Sharp Practice game with Phil and Andy last month is of interest...Back to India in 1857 and the Mutiny, we...
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Sharp Practice: The Dojjibotti Run
India 1857, the Devil’s Wind sweeps the land as the Sepoys are revolting. Across Central India various native princes and princesses have to decide whether to throw their lot in with the mutineers or...
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Sharp Practice: Il ponte sul fiume (noto anche come il grande rotta napoletana)
With Andy and Jack indisposed last week Phil and I decided to take a break from matters WW2 and dusted off our Italian forces for a quick north vs south 85pt Sharp Practice scrap. Quick turned out to...
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Armoured Storm: Ding dong at El Ramalama...
Over the last few months Phil has enjoyed playing the odd game of Armoured Storm against me and Andy, and after several victories as the Deutsches Afrika Korps expressed an interest in trying out an...
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Chain of Command: The Probe at Quelquepart...
Earlier this month Andy, Phil and myself played the Probe scenario from Chain of Command 2 with Jack umpiring to get some practice in doing that before Winter Wonder Lard VI...The Probe is quite a...
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