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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, Maurice, 28mm This small game was staged to try out a set of rules discovered by Bill Gilchrist – Maurice Lite (sp). They’re the “teaser” for the full set of Maurice produced by Sam Mustafa, which comes out soon. Bill is a real rules monkey, and he likes trying out nthese
The American War of Independence, Black Powder, 28mm Bill Gillchrist has a thing about Oriskany. This must be the second or third refight of the battle he’s staged during the past year! I suppose it’s because he has all those Indians and militiamen, and sees it as a quirky battle, and therefore an entertaining one.
The Napoleonic Wars, Warfare in the Age of Napoleon, 28mm The second of our try-outs of “Warfare in the Age of Napoleon” involved a fictitious French attack on an equally fictitious British-held village called El Casa Vaggio. The village was the outpost of an area occupied by the British, and was held by a Highland
The Napoleonic Wars, Warfare in the Age of Napoleon, 28mm I like it when other people are supplying the toys, and I don’t have to haul several boxes of lead to the wargame club. This was one of those occasions, when Dave Imrie brought along his Russians, and Dougie Trail supplied the French. Better still,
The American War of Independence, Patriots, 28mm We planned to play a Napoleonic game this week, but as one player cried off we came up with an alternative. I have a fairly large American War of Independence collection which rarely gets an airing on the tabletop, and so we thought we’d use them to try
The Napoleonic Wars, Lasalle, 28mm This week’s game report is brought to you by Bill Gilchrist, as Angus was laid low by an eye infection. Unable to read, write, wargame, watch war films or paint, he was reduced to listening to an audio book from Edinburgh Library instead of coming out to play. At least
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm Our last game of the year was a Peninsular affair, with the British, Portuguese and Spanish defending, and the French assaulting their positions – or trying to. I say French, but one of the two attacking infantry divisions was a Bavarian one. I know they never really appeared in
The Napoleonic Wars, General de Brigade, 28mm A few of us from the Edinburgh club were invited to take part in a refight of Borodino, laid on by the Leuchars Wargames Club. Leuchars is about 50 miles north of Edinburgh, close to the university town of St. Andrews. I’d already lent my Russian army for
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm This week we used a scenario from Charles S. Grant’s Scenarios for Wargames (WRG 1980), an old staple when we can’t think of a scenario for ourselves. This one was based around the retreat from Moscow in 1812. Please excuse the lack of snow – we didn’t have a
The Seven Years War, Warfare in the Age of Reason, 28mm Warning bells should have been ringing when Dougie (commanding the Prussians) said he was concocting an “interesting scenario”. He didn’t use “fair”, or “balanced” – just “interesting”. I was told to bring two brigades of French foot, and one brigade of cavalry, and I’d
