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He's a member of the Orkney Wargames Club, which meets in Kirkwall on Thursday evenings.
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Misc., The Marlburian Era, Beneath the Lilly Banners, 28mm While its nice to get your own toys out, sometimes I appreciate games where I don’t have to bring along hundreds of figures. When someone suggested playing a “Marlburian” game, to try out Beneath the Lilly Banners, then I acquiesced. That’s because other people had whole
Misc., WWI Aerial Combat, Wings of War, 1/144 scale While I wouldn’t call this “proper” wargaming, it was great fun. A new craze in the club is First World War air combat, prompted by Jules of Figures in Comfort coming in and selling everyone planes and rules. I was suckered into it too, and not
Misc., Wargame Show, Falkirk I visited this excellent wargames show, and whiled away a few hours chatting with friends, buying lead I don’t really need, and looking at some very attractive demonstration and participation games.Here are some of my favourites – a colourful Thirty Years War game, and interesting refight of Leuthen (1757) in 15mm,
Misc., Pirates, Legends of the High Seas, 28mm This multi-player game was inspired by the release of Legends of the High Seas, a set of pirate rules produced by Warhammer “Historical”. The idea was that the ten players were divided up into five teams, each with a ship-based group and a land one. There were
Misc., Wargame Show, York A group of us went down in the train to the wargame show in York, and a great day out it was.Of course in Britain, rail journeys are a real nightmare, as each train is run by a different company, the stations are run by another lot, and there’s even another
Misc., Wild West, Legends of the Old West, 28mm Once every few months a few of us get together for a weekend game – a large multi-player affair. Well, this one was a Wild West shootout, with eight different gangs, fighting through the sizeable town of Red Rock and its neighbouring Mexican village. My crowd
Misc., Renaissance Skirmish, El Dorado – a home-grown set, 28mm I’d rather hoped to play a game with Chris Henry’s superb collection of Conquistadors and Aztecs, but that game is still on hold. Instead Colin Jack asked us to playtest his new show participation game – a rather silly affair based on a bizarre event. In 1541
Misc., Wild West, Legends of the Old West, 28mm OK, I’ll be the first to ‘fess up. I played a Warhammer game! There. I said it. Its a slippery slope, and before you know it I’ll be playing with Orcs, Tree Goblins and Third Level Wizards. The story goes, wargaming compadre Colin Jack is planning
Misc., Wargame Shows, Claymore 2007 It was another excellent show – a chance to meet friends, look at some pretty display games, sell lead and buy more! With pals driving up from England and flying in from Spain it proved to be a busy and beer-fuelled day. I’m afraid the only pictures which came out
Misc., Pirates, In the Heart of Africa modified, 28mm Every so often we run a ridiculously big all-day multip-player, usually in the breakfast room of Hugh Wilson’s guesthouse in Edinburgh. It was out of season, so we could indulge ourselves. This time we brought out our pirates, but instead of setting it in the Caribbean, we opted
