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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, British Grenadier, 28mm Two wargames in one weekend! This was a refight of Guilford Courthouse – probably my favourite battle from the American War of Independence, and not just ’cause I wrote the Osprey book on it! The war in the South has always held more appeal than the fighting
The Napoleonic Wars, French Revolutionary War, Carnage & Glory II, 28mm Every so often you get to play a game that is so pretty that you consider it a privilege to take part. This was one of them. I was attending Historicon 2010 – the big US wargame show, held this year at King of
The Seven Years War, Black Powder, 28mm A few months ago a few of us got together to stage an enormous Marston Moor game, held in a hotel in a remote corner of Fife, a one hour drive from Edinburgh. Well this time we tackled a Seven Years War refight – the Battle of Hastenbeck,
The American War of Independence, Black Powder, 28mm This week’s game was a refight of the Battle of Camden, one of the shortest stand-up fights of the American War of Independence. In the real battle, all Cornwallis had to do was to advance his army towards the Americans. That was enough, and half of the
The Seven Years War, Black Powder, 28mm It isn’t often that you dread playing a game with lots of your favourite figures. The reason was, Black Powder have several critics in the club, most of whom seem to be people who’ve never read the rules. Well, last week Dougie challenged our nay-saying pal Kevan to
The American War of Independence, Black Powder, 28mm We had a rare opportunity for a weekend game, and we decided to play the sequel to our First Battle of Saratoga (Freeman’s Farm) game we played out last month. This was General Burgoynes’s second and final attempt to defeat the American army blocking his advance down
The Seven Years War, Black Powder, 28mm This week’s game was another “learning the rules” game using Black Powder, which is fast becoming our rules set of choice for Horse & Musket games. This time we refought the small encounter at Emsdorf (1760), which is the introductory scenario in our Seven Years War rules Die
Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, Black Powder, 28mm The new Black Powder rules purport to cover the period from around 1700 to 1890, and the rules include a sample game set during the Sudan Campaign of 1884. well, we thought we’d give the period a try, using figures from the collections of Dave O’Brien and Colin
The American War of Independence, Black Powder, 28mm Last week we decided to try out the new Black Powder rules (see review), using the Freeman’s Farm scenario they described in the rule book. The crowd who designed Black Powder like to use abnormally large tables – far bigger than the largest we regularly game on
The Napoleonic Wars, French Revolutionary War, Napoleon, 28mm This small game was set in Italy during the French Revolution, and involved a French assault on an Austrian position. We were using Napoleon rules for the second time, but this time we not only had time to figure the basics out, but Bill Gilchrist was on
