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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
Campaigns in Central Asia, c.1919-25 For those of you unfamiliar with the Back of Beyond idea, the name comes from a rules supplement to Chris Peers’ Contemptible Little Armies. Back of Beyond was a set of army lists and a campaign system which allowed players to recreate events which played out in Central Asia during
