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He's a member of the Orkney Wargames Club, which meets in Kirkwall on Thursday evenings.
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The American War of Independence, Maurice, 28mm This Thursday I was invited around to Bill Gilchrist’s house to try my hand at a game of Maurice. I say house, but his wargame room is actually his garage, and very cosy it was too.Maurice is really a set of Seven Years War rules, produced by Sam
The Second World War, Chain of Command, 28mm This was my second Chain of Command game this month, fought in “the one true scale”. Having struggled to find a set of Second World War skirmish rules that hit the mark, I’ve been giving Chain of Command a good try out. The more I play it
The Age of Chivalry, Saga, 28mm Having safely returned to Orkney after my travels, I arranged a game with Alan Bruce, who brought along his Crusading skirmish figures and his Saga rules. We played two short games, switching sides in between. In the first, my Saracens were defending a village, while Bohemond of Taranto’s crusaders
The Second World War, Chain of Command, 15mm I don’t normally do 15mm games. I don’t have any figures in the scale anymore, and don’t really see the point of it. Still, needs must. In Edinburgh, Jack, Derek and Jim have tons of 15mm Second World War kit, and so it remains their scale of
Wargame Shows, Antwerp, Belgium This is a terrific show. if you get the opportunity to go then do. Officially I was going as the “support team” to the Edinburgh club, who were laying on a Dux Britanniorum participation game. In fact I’d buggered up my leg – I damaged my knee muscles jumping off the
