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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 Napoleonic Wars, Shadow of the Eagles, 28mm When my friend Charles Grant asked me to play through a game for his forthcoming wargames scenario book I jumped at the chance. Charles always comes up with unusual and challenging scenarios and ‘teasers’, so I knew this would be good. He wanted this to be a
The French and Indian War, Rebels and Patriots, 28mm I offered to run a game this week, and I gave the guys a few options. They opted for the French and Indian War, where m Huron warriors were out looking for scalps, and British settlers feared for their lives. This game was an French and
The Napoleonic Wars, Shadow of the Eagles, 28mm We decided to play a Napoleonic game – a fairly limited affair, so it could fit onto a 6×4 foot table. I don’t think Chris had tried Keith Flint’s Shadow of the Eagles before, so this was mainly about introducing him to the rules. He’s actually played
The Seven Years War, Honours of War, 28mm First of all – sorry. I haven’t posted a game report in months. In fact, since October. Don’t worry – I’m still alive. It was just work – my forthcoming book Lords of the Salt Road took up all of my time. the last thing I needed
The Napoleonic Wars, Shadow of the Eagles, 28mm With just Sean and I this week, we wanted a small, easily playable game. We found the perfect set-up in Charles Grant’s new scenario book, published by Partizan Press. One of its scenarios is called The Two Churches, and involves an assault on a village – with
The Seven Years War, Honours of War, 28mm Its been a strange wargaming year, as for various reasons there were several weeks when we couldn’t get a game, as people were away, working or whatever. So, it was great that Sean and I finally got together, for a spot of Seven Years War action. The
Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, The Men Who Would Be Kings, 28mm A change of scale this week, and of battleground. We were off to the North-West Frontier, and a punitive expedition against the troublesome Waziris of Marsdi Khel. It’s a village in the Tochi Valley, and in 1897 it was one of several trouble spots
The Seven Years War, Honours of War, 28mm The decision to make this an all-cavalry battle was all down to laziness. I hadn’t planned the game, and so rather than looking out a mixed force for both sides, I just grabbed the cavalry boxes. Actually, they weren’t all cavalry – one of the boxes had
The French & Indian Wars, Rebels and Patriots, 28mm We opted for a French & Indian Wars game as there were just two of us. We’ve played ‘Scenario L – Defending Mendenhall’s Battery’ from the rules before. As memory serves it was an easy win for the defenders – the ones with the big guns.
The Seven Years War, Honours of War, 28mm We needed our Seven Years War fix, so we staged this little game at the club this week. the idea – lifted and adapted from an old Charles Grant scenario – had the Allies trying to force a crossing of the River Else, a tributary of the
