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The Back of Beyond, Contemptible Little Armies / Back of Beyond, 28mm The great thing about Back of Beyond games is that nobody can take them too seriously, especially when Colin Jack comes up with the scenario. In this one a small detachment of the Czech Legion was garrisoning a God-forsaken hamlet in Siberia, which
The Back of Beyond, Contemptible Little Armies / Back of Beyond, 28mm Every so often you play a game so large, so much fun or so darned silly that it takes your breath away. Well, this – the “Krasnovodsk Mini Campaign” was one of them! It was all part of out on-going “Back of Beyond” campaign,
The Back of Beyond, Contemptible Little Armies / Back of Beyond, 28mm This little affair came about because we couldn’t agree on anything else to do this week. It pitted two Red forces (owned by Dougie Trail and Colin Jack) pitted against Dougie’s French Interventionists, supported by a contingent of Jack’s Whites. Dougie, Chris Henry and
Back of Beyond, Contemptible Little Armies / Back of Beyond with home-grown amendments, 28mm This is only a Back of Beyond game in the loosest sense, as it’s set outside Central Asia – in fact somewhere on the Yalu River, in China itself. Still, it was a game played “in the spirit” of our Back
The Great War, Contemptible Little Armies, 28mm On 4th November the SESWC put on two games at the small Targe show in Kirriemuir, in Scotland. One was a kids’ participation game involving Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (don’t ask!), and the other one was our Verdun game. We were asked to put it on at the last
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 Great War, Contemptible Little Armies, 28mm The next week witnessed another biggie. We fought over our newly-built First World War terrain – my 28mm Germans to be pitted against Dougie Trail’s French in a Verdun game. the Germans were attacking, and launched their assault in two waves, preceded by a short artillery barrage. The game
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
