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The Seven Years War, For King and Parliament, 28mm This week the game was a little unusual. Simon Miller visited the club, and laid on a game. Strangely, it wasn’t one using his To the Strongest Ancient rules (which I really like). Simon and my wargaming friend Andrew Brentnall has been developing an English Civil War
The Napoleonic Wars, Over the Hills, 28mm This game – our third using Over the Hills – was based on the tried and tested “Bridgehead Breakout” scenario, found in Charles S. Grant’s Scenarios for Wargamers (1981). Like most of Charles’ his “teasers” the scenario is harder than it looks. We’ve played this particular one a
The French & Indian War, Muskets & Tomahawks, 28mm Recently the Edinburgh club bought three big boxes full of trees – and we decided to put some of them to good use. We hadn’t played a French & Indian War game for some time, and so this week we returned to the forests of North
The Napoleonic Wars, Over the Hills, 28mm You really can’t beat a good Napoleonic scrap – and this was one of the best of them. Light all good club-night battles it involved limited forces – just two brigades of infantry and one of cavalry per side. Campbell’s Württemberg division had nine battalions in two brigades,
Napoleonic Wars, Over the Hills, 28mm A few weeks ago I read that Caliver Books / Partizan Press were coming out with a new set of Napoleonic rules. they were billed as a more period-specific answer to Black Powder, but with slightly more to them. Now, Black Powder remain a stalwart of the Edinburgh club,
Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, Sharp Practice, 28mm This was little more than an excuse to get all my Indian Mutiny toys out on the table. I was actually going to lay on the figures for two games, fought out on two single 6×4 foot tables, separated by an impassable river. With a certain degree of
Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, Sharp Practice, 28mm For me the main event at Deep Fried Lard was to take part in the Indian Mutiny game. Richard Clark of Too Fat Lardies was running it as a Sharp Practice battle, and while I supplied the terrain and the figures, Rich concocted the scenario. While I’ve got a few
The Seven Years War, Piquet – Field of Battle, 40mm Yes, I know the Battle of Chotusitz took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, but I don’t have a slot for that conflict. So, it morphs into the Seven Years War. This game was fought during the AMG 2016 weekend, a wargaming event
Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, Peter Gilder Colonial Rules, 28mm Although I was down in Warwick for a Seven Years War weekend, other games were on offer, and this one looked so good that I couldn’t resit playing it. All the figures and the terrain were from Dave Docherty’s collection, and he umpired the thing too,
Misc., The Great Northern War, Homemade Rules, 28mm This weekend I was down in Warwick, with the guys from the Military Gentleman forum. Officially the whole weekend was about playing games set in the Seven Years War, but the first of them I played was actually based in an earlier conflict – the Great Northern
