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Futbowel: The Christmas Truce...
"Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse..." because we were down Bristol Independent Gaming playing the WWI version of Futbowel we...
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On Bloody Ground: Fram, Fram, Konungsmenn!
As 2025 comes to an end, and despite being very behind on the blog's battle reports this year, here is one from today when Phil and Jenny invited myself, Andy and Jim down to play a 3000 point aside...
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Battlegroup NORTHAG: Crossing the E40
Just before Christmas Rob, Andy and I played a Cold War battalion sized game in 6mm using the Battlegroup NORTHAGrules (and its CENTAG supplement). The scenario was based on a Soviet attempt to seize...
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A Cunning Plan (or two...) for 2026!
Well that was 2025... hobby wise a good year with a lot of games played, so many it became impossible to keep up with on the blog (though I will try to do better in 2026). Was happy to get a lot more...
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Chain of Command: Verteidigung des Obstgartens
Having a look through the hundreds of photos of games played in 2025 I came across this 15mm Chain of Command Normandy '44 game played last February...With Phil and Jenny providing th figures and...
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Armoured Storm: First Clash at El Wadi Sha Wadi
Over the summer Andy and I tried out Dan Mersey's quick play WW2 tank game Armoured Storm using my collection of 6mm North Africa campaign tanks - and found it to be a huge amount of fun, with some...
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Battlegroup NORTHAG: Setback at Sorga
Saturday saw the first game of 2026 as Andy and I went down Bristol Independent Gaming to play another game of Battlegroup NORTHAG using my 6mm miniatures. With elements of the Soviet forces pushing in...
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Western Desert: 132ª Divisione corazzata "Ariete"
Back to WW2 and the Western Desert as a third force is added to our games of Armoured Storm - the Italians! All models are 3D prints from Butlers Printed Models - the high resolution resin, it is more...
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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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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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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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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: 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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