The Back of Beyond

The Back of Beyond, Contemptible Little Armies / The Back of Beyond, 28mm This “Back of Beyond” game wasn’t part of our came, but was more of a pre-cursor. it was set somewhere near Artashat on the Russian-Turkish border in Armenia after the Great War, before the Turks launched their fictitious expedition into Central Asia. So,

The Back of Beyond,   Contemptible Little Armies / Back of Beyond,   28mm This week we played a small “Back of Beyond” game involving the Reds and the Whites, and for once the Whites were creamed. None of the lead was mine  – the Reds belonged to Dougie Trail & Bill Gilchrist, while the Whites

Back of Beyond, Conteptible Little Armies / The Back of Beyond, 28mm  The next game was another Back of Beyond affair involving my Turks as unlikely Afghan allies fighting the British for control of some god-forsaken Afghan hilltop village during the Third Afghan War (1919-20).The game gave me the excuse to speed paint these fine-looking

Back of Beyond, Contemptible Little Armies / Back of Beyond, 28mm In Edinburgh a group of us have been running a “Back of Beyond” campaign for some years using 25mm figures. Actually I’m something of a latecomer to this, and just about the only army which hadn’t been taken was the Turks. It just so

Back of Beyond, Contemptible Little Armies / Back of Beyond, 28mm The next game was part of the Club’s “Back of Beyond” campaign, which saw my Turks landing on the eastern side of the Caspian Sea – part of their master plan to resurrect a Turkish Muslim empire in Central Asia! The plan was to