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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 Seven Years War, Black Powder, 28mm Back up in Orkney I wanted to give my Seven Years War Russian army an airing – something it hadn’t really done since the Pivo debacle of September 2012. The excuse was that I’d a big Seven Years War weekend lined up in Fife, but thanks to pressing
The French & Indian War, Muskets & Tomahawks, 28mm This week I went along to the Edinburgh club and brought my French & Indian toys with me. The game that followed was a multi-player skirmish, with the French attacking a peaceful farming community in Vandalia (my semi-fictitious English colony), and a British garrison marching to the
The Napoleonic War, Black Powder, 28mm The Edinburgh club is still on its seasonal hiatus, so Bill Gilchrist invited a few of us along to play a game in his wargames room – or garage. We refought the Battle of Hanau (30 October 1813), where the Bavarians tried to block Napoleon’s withdrawal back to France
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm This fictional battle was staged in Edinburgh wargamer Hugh Wilson’s house, fought out on Hugh’s unusually long table using figures from several collections. The scenario was concocted by Bill Gilchrist, who also supplied these photos and the cool little map. The idea was that the British army was in
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 Napoleonic Wars, General de Brigade, 28mm This little game was played up in Orkney using the little 7×5 foot table in my attic wargaming den. Three of us took part – Mark Colston commanding the French, while Alan Bruce and I took charge of the Prussians and Russians respectively. It was a little encounter
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm It was a rare event – Dougie Trail and I haven’t played a game together for ages – since his move to Helensburgh, and my seasonal one to Orkney. As we were both in Edinburgh at the same time we decided to stage a small Peninsular War game, with
The Napoleonic Wars, General de Brigade, 28mm Good old Charles S. Grant. Whenever I’m in need of an interesting scenario for a game I dip into one of his scenario books, or stockpile of “Tabletop Teasers”. This one – dubbed “Holding Action (1)” was culled from Scenarios for Wargames, published back in 1981. Its one
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm For some of my French and Russians this was their second battle in a week. I’d promised Mark Colston (a teacher) to host a game before the end of the school holidays, so on Friday afternoon he came round to blood his brigade of Prussians. They formed part of
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm After a string of Dark Age or Early Medieval games this week’s clash saw a return to “proper wargaming”. In the little club in Orkney Alan Bruce and I staged a small Napoleonic game, with just two mixed brigades a side – five infantry battalions and two cavalry regiments
