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Second Anglo-Maratha War: Sample Painting
It's all Sharpe's fault... And Hellion & Co's... Whilst painting over the last year I've started listening to the Marius Mules audio novels set around Rome invading Gaul, however fancying a change...
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The Sudan: Naval Brigade
With a The Men Who Would Be Kings game set in the Sudan planned for the middle of the week I decided I should paint up the three packs of Perry Naval Brigade figures I picked up off eBay a year or so...
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The Sudan: War Correspondents
Many moons ago I rather randomly picked up a copy of Peter Johnson's excellent Front Line Artists which tells the story of a number of 19th century artists who went on campaign and sketched the events...
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Rebels and Patriots: First Clash at Big Jim's Field
Last week saw the return of George to BIG who had been even busier on the painting front during 'Lockdown II' than he had been in 'Lockdown I' having expanded his British AWI units into 24 figure...
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Sharp Practice: Battle Cry of Freedom at Moo Cow Farm
The Union forever, hurrah! boys, hurrah! Down with the traitors, up with the stars; While we rally round the flag, boys, we rally once again, Shouting the battle cry of freedom!  Battle Cry of Freedom...
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The Men Who Would Be Kings: 'Oppin' In An' Out Among The Bush...
Having played a bit of Rebels and Patriots the previous week at BIG, George and I decided to dust off it's sister set The Men Who Would Be Kings for a bit of colonial warfare in the Sudan. By way of an...
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Chain of Command: ArrĂȘter les Boche!
One last game down 'old'Bristol Independent Gaming before it moved to its new premises (even closer to me now, literally five minutes down the road!), and Andy offered to run me through Chain of...
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Sharp Practice: Brûlez la ferme anglaise!
I must confess I have managed to get a little behind on the battle reports but will do my best to catch up over the next week or so - hopefully my remembered accounts of what happen will bear some...
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Sharp Practice: So Glorious A War (Day One, Game One)
Two days after my first French & Indian War Sharp Practice game I found myself down BIG taking part in the So What A Glorious Day event - four games over two days, operating with a partner against...
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Sharp Practice: So Glorious A War (Day One, Game Two)
After lunch the second game of day one at So Glorious A War saw Jenny and myself face up against Carol and Lloyd's 'scruffy' French! This time we had to not only halt the enemy advance but also rescue...
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Sharp Practice: So Glorious A War (Day Two, Game One)
Sunday saw a change of partner for my next Sharp Practice game (I don't think Jenny had put in a transfer request after the previous day's SNAFU but...) playing with overall British force commander...
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Sharp Practice: So Glorious A War (Day Two, Game Two)
My final game at the So Glorious A War Sharp Practice event saw Julian and myself up against Brian and Carol. Following on from the last scenario we now had to escort a small group of civilians to...
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Zulu War: The Sharp Point
It has been some time since my base coated Zulus have seen daylight (almost three years) since we refought Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift using The Men Who Would Be Kings but with Ellen at Bristol...
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Zulu War: The Trotters
My next Zulu War regiment for The Men Who Would Be Kings is another unmarried unit the uNokhenke (which may mean Trotters or Skirmishers). They have plain black shields...Again I have gone with a 32...
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Rebels and Patriots: Retreat to the Big Sunken Road
George and I got another Rebels and Patriots game in recently down BIG, borrowing Andy's lovely rail fencing, to play out the Sunken Road scenario from the rulebook. As is our wont we ignored the 24...
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Zulu War: The Black Mamba
Having painted two unmarried Zulu regiments for The Men Who Would Be Kings, next up were a married regiment (with their distinctive head bands), the inDlondlo - the Black Mambas!Whereas (most of) the...
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Zulu War: The White Tails
The fourth (and for the time being final) Zulu regiment of my current The Men Who Would Be Kings project (giving me 128 warriors in total) is a second married regiment, the isAngqu (the White...
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Chain of Command: Les Boche Ne Passera Pas!
With our eye on playing some late WWI actions in the near future, George was given his first experience of Chain of Command recently in a 1940 France game under Andy's auspices, with George taking...
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Black Ops: Chinese PLA Conscript Heavy Support Cell
A few weeks back George threw out the idea that we should look at Osprey's Black Ops as a game that a number of us could all play at once and that we'd heard good things about. This reminded me that...
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The Men Who Would Be Kings: Wounded and Left on Afghanistan's Plains...
Between real world commitments and the amount of games I'm getting to play at the moment (not complaining) I am a bit behind on the battle reports but will endeavour to catch up as soon as possible. A...
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