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The Men Who Would Be Kings: Undercoating the Spears
George and I have a cunning plan to refight Rorke's Drift on Wednesday evening (it being almost exactly the 140th anniversary etc) so I have been trying to get enough Zulus stuck together and at the...
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The Men Who Would Be Kings: Rorke's Drift - the Buildings
As it is the 140th anniversary of the Anglo-Zulu War, George and I decided we would try and recognise that by attempting to recreate the two big famous battles of the war using The Men Who Would Be...
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The Men Who Would Be Kings: Rorke's Drift - the Refight
Apologies for the delay in posting our Rorke's Drift battle George, Steve and I fought at BIG to commemorate the 140th anniversary of the battle using The Men Who Would Be Kings, but better late than...
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The Men Who Would Be Kings: Isandhlwana - the Refight
So following our recreation of the heroic defence of Rorke's Drift on the 140th anniversary (plus one day) we rolled up at BIG the following Sunday for an all day refight of Isandhlwana!Using The Men...
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The Men Who Would Be Kings: The Khandahar Field Force Exercises
A couple of weeks back George managed to arrived at BIGsans his natives. Fortunately I have amassed over 48 points of Imperial troops for The Men Who Would Be Kings, so as a bit of fun we decided to...
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Cruel Seas: Heroics and Ros Fairmile D's
With plans to give Cruel Seas another spin on Wednesday I spent this morning sticking my two Heroics and Ros Fairmile D's together (and my fingers!).Whilst they are not quite as detailed as the Warlord...
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The Men Who Would Be Kings: The Piper's Lament
Apologies for the tardiness of these reports from recent battles in Afghanistan but real world stuff keeps getting in the way, but some interesting battles have been fought and lost so I will do my...
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The Men Who Would Be Kings: Nischay Kar Apni Jeet Karon...
After the previous debacle against the rebellious Afghans under the command of Amir George Khan, the Imperial forces of the Queen returned to give the natives a damned good thrashing.Unfortunately...
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Rebels and Patriots: On Afghanistan's Plains...
Last week down BIG George came up with a cunning idea of playing a NWF colonial game using Rebels and Patriots rather than The Men Who Would Be Kings, partly, as we had both concluded the latter was...
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The Men Who Would Be Kings: When 'arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch...
Apologies for the delay in recent reports from the North-West Frontier but news of defeat moves much slower than that of victory!A few weeks back we decided to try the Run to the Hills scenario from...
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The Pikeman's Lament: The First Peninsular War
Well I lasted until the final week of the Warlord Gamessprue sale before weakening, but yesterday an order for a pile of Marlburian Infantry sprues went in as each sprue has 12 figures on and costs...
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Rebels and Patriots: 1st Maryland Continentals
Apologies for the lack of updates, gaming has been going on that I haven't had time to sit down and properly report back on, with the last month seeing us delve into the American Revolution using...
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Rebels and Patriots: North Carolina Militia
Finished my second Rebels & Patriots unit for service down BIG last night - they started well enough before rolling a double one on an activation and then rolling to retreat double move on the 'bad...
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The Men Who Would Be Kings: Wherever The Bugles Are Blown...
A bit of a delayed battle report for a The Men Who Would Be Kings game we played at BIG for which  I offered to come up with a scenario not drawn from the rulebook! Santa brought me a copy of Stuart...
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North-West Frontier: 4th Gurkha Rifles
Nothing says North West Frontier more than a unit of Gurkhas, yet despite their iconic and legendary status, neither Perry's or Artizan have sculpted any in their colonial ranges. Consequently I was...
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Rebels & Patriots: Virginia Militia
I had a bit of a painting and dipping splurge on my Rebels & Patriots AWI Americans last week in an effort to get more of the army on the tabletop painted (shamed in some respects due to the...
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Rebels & Patriots: Tell Them Where We Died...
Back to the North-West Frontier down BIG with George and I deciding to use Rebels and Patriots again, but picking one of the scenarios from The Men Who Would Be Kings - Seek and Destroy!Part of...
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The Men Who Would Be Kings: The Dancing Trumpet Sound and We Went Forth...
Back to the Sudan last week at BIG against Madhi George and a return to The Men Who Would Kings and a scenario we had not played from the rulebook - Just Passing By...In this scenario equal size forces...
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Pikeman Rampant: Landsknecht Arquebusiers
Over the last four decades I've had a lingering fascination with Landsknechts! I'm not 100% sure why this is. It may have been the couple of excellent 25mm Landsknechts Citadel produced under licence...
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Rebels and Patriots: 2nd Maryland Continentals
Having painted three units of Militia for Rebels and Patriots, I decided to concentrate on a second Continental Army unit to go with the 1st Maryland which I painted back in the July - the 2nd...
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