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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 Second World War, Battlegroup: Fall of the Reich, 20mm I came along to the Edinburgh club without a game lined up, but Bart Zynda invited me to take part in this one – an Eastern Front game using the latest of the Battlegroup rules. I hadn’t tried this group of rules before, and didn’t
The Second World War, Bolt Action, 28mm This was the third D-Day game fought out on the same table. The last time I played it was mid-January, and the Allies just about managed to fight their way off the beach. When I left it the leading Allied unit was the Sherman called “Milly”, who had
The Second World War, Bolt Action, 28mm This Thursday there wasn’t anything I fancied playing at the club, so I popped round to Hugh Wilson’s place instead. Every second Thursday Hugh lays on a game, and this week it was Normandy. I don’t go to Hugh’s games every time – that would be disloyal to
The Second World War, Rapid Fire, 20mm First off, let me thank Bart Zynda for these pictures, as I had a senior moment and forgot my camera. I didn’t have a game planned this week, and simply turned up at the Edinburgh club clutching dice and a tape measure. Colin Jack was kind enough to
The American Civil War, Regimental Fire & Fury, 28mm Every year, between Christmas and New Year the RAF Leuchars club hosts a big one day game. I missed it last year, when they did Operation Market Garden, but the year before we refought Borodino. This time it was off to Virginia, and a refight of
The Second World War, Chain of Command, 28mm This was my second Chain of Command game this month, fought in “the one true scale”. Having struggled to find a set of Second World War skirmish rules that hit the mark, I’ve been giving Chain of Command a good try out. The more I play it
The Second World War, Chain of Command, 15mm I don’t normally do 15mm games. I don’t have any figures in the scale anymore, and don’t really see the point of it. Still, needs must. In Edinburgh, Jack, Derek and Jim have tons of 15mm Second World War kit, and so it remains their scale of
The Second World War, Bolt Action, 28mm I had a very strange weekend. On Friday night I was in Orkney, giving a speech and the “immortal memory” toast at a very boozy Trafalgar Night Dinner. I had my car “valet parked” on the ferry, and the following morning I driving it ashore in Aberdeen. Two
The Second World War, Chain of Command, 28mm In the Edinburgh club two of its most senior members are collectively known as “The Old Stoners”. They’re a bit like Stadler and Waldorf from The Muppet Show, only more laid back. Anyway, every so often they rave enthusiastically about a new set of rules, proclaiming them
The Back of Beyond, Setting the East Ablaze, 28mm This was a long-overdue return to “The Back of Beyond”, a period I really enjoy, but for some reason play far less often than I’d like. Largely because I didn’t have the right sand-coloured cloth to hand, this game was set in Northern Russia, rather than
