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The Back of Beyond, Setting the East Ablaze, 28mm You may be forgiven for not knowing where Skobelev is. The place is now Fergana in Usbekistan, on the North Silk Road, to the south-east of Tashkent. As a town it is very decidedly in “The Back of Beyond”. It also set the scene for this
The Dark Ages, Dux Britanniarum, 28mm I hadn’t played Dux Britanniarum for a while, so we decided to give the Saxons and Britons another outing. I’m glad we did – it turned out to be one of the most enjoyable games I’ve played this year! Although the rules contain a very tempting campaign system we’ve
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm This little Napoleonic game was based on a scenario on Scenarios for All Ages, by Charles S. Grant and Stuart Asquith. The idea is, both sides want to capture the same bridge, and two matched forces are sent to secure it. A second supporting column is ordered to help,
The Second World War, Chain of Command, 28mm This little game was a scenario lifted straight from an article by Richard Clark, who wrote the rules. In his turn he based it on a wartime British infantry platoon leader’s training manual, which gave it as an example of how a platoon should carry out an
