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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 Panzergrenadier, 12mm Its been a long time since I had my 12mm tanks out, hence this small game set in the Western Desert in April 1941, played on a 7×5 foot table. The premise is that the British are being chased out of Libya by Rommel, and the road you
The Second World War, Disposable Heroes, 28mm This was another “League of Gentleman Wargamers” gig, played out over a weekend in Kirriemuir, in the north-east corner of Scotland. We meet up two or three times a year, and we all have far too much “kit” for our own good. That means games tend to be
The Second World War, Rules of Engagement, 28mm This game was laid on up in Orkney, as a form of initiation of the local wargaming group into Second World War skirmish games. It was also a chance to try out a new set of rules – well, new to me in that I just bought
The Great War, Where the Poppies Grow, 28mm My Russian 1914 army came about late last year when I bought a box of Copplestone Russian Civil War figures at a wargame show. I re-touched them, added a bunch more, and then painted up a German army to fight them. I was planning to use “If
The Back of Beyond, Contemptible Little Armies, 28mm With Angus missing out the game due to his temporary exile in Orkney, this report comes to you from Comrade Bill Gilchrist; This weekend we played out a large scale Back of Beyond game set in 1920, in the short lived Far East Republic in eastern Siberia.
Modern Wars (Malayan Emergency), Force on Force, 28mm The thing about Force on Force games is that in often takes longer to put out the scenery than to play the game. This would have been the case here, except Colin Jack, Bill Gilchrist and I hadn’t played a game using Force on Force for quite
The Great War, In the Heart of Africa, 28mm Our first game of 2012 was based around an exchange in Black Adder Goes Forth. When Capt. Blackadder asked half-wit Lt. George why the war began, George blamed “the vile Hun and his villainous empire building”. Blackadder replied; “George, the British Empire at present covers a
The Great War, Contemptible Little Armies, 28mm With Angus away in Orkney for a few days, this game report is brought to you by Bill Gilchrist. The rather unusual game was set in Silesia in the aftermath of the First World War – a hotbed of national and political fervour. So, while it isn’t a
The Back of Beyond, Contemptible Little Armies / Back of Beyond, 28mm This lively little encounter came about for no other reason than we hadn’t played a Back of Beyond game for almost a year. It used to be one of our main wargaming staples, but for some reason it dropped by the wayside. I’ve
The Second World War, Rapid Fire, 20mm This week, for the want of something better to do, the chaps decided to invade Russia. The game was set in October 1941, during Operation Barbarossa. Army Group North was approaching Leningrad, and had already encircled the landward side of the city. General Zhukov, commanding the Leningrad Front
