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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Wow...Talk about Big Boy Toys!!!

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    Out of Nowhere! - I just finished a nice gaming session with the Prawn this morning. Since he transferred to a new school we just don't get in as much ASL (if any) as usual...
  • Two Up, One Back - Bard's WWII Blog
    WWII Game with Morschauser Rules - Closing out my week off from work this weekend, I had a solo WWII game today using the modern era rules from Joseph Morschauser's *How to Play Wargames in ...
  • View from the trenches
    Ambush - In this small scenario US marines have been warned that the insurgents are sending a column to attack the small force that has landed. A squad in the vang...
  • Vintage Wargaming
    Warplan 5/5 Campaign System - I'm afraid I couldn't find a way to reproduce the snazzy double headed arrow in 5/5 in the text so will have to do with this instead. Warplan 5/5 came o...
  • Vulture's Wargaming Blog
    What A Tanker! - Dashboard & Dice Set - I recently purchaed Qty 4 of these Dashboard and Dice Set from Sabotage 3D for 'What A Tanker!'. These are really excellent and especially useful if you...
  • WAB Corner
    Kit-Bashing Perry Light Cavalry 1450-1500 & Wargames Atlantic Parts - Kit-bashing Perry Light Cav 1450-1500 figs with some Wargames Atlantic Landsknecht and Conquistador parts. Plan to have these as a unit of mounted crossb...
  • wab-ramblings (click on photos for better view)
    Team Yankee - Ok Mark Piper and I played our first game of Team Yankee in nearly 3 years and had a ball. We play in 20mm but don’t make any changes to ranges but usual...
  • WAR of 1812 Wargaming
    Why the WAR OF 1812? - I just received two of the more recent Osprey Men-at Arms books on the War of 1812 in the mail the other day (not really that recent - 1998 and 2000...but...
  • Warfare in the Age of Steam
    Miners on the Western Front - Article from Military Illustrated Past and Present here
  • Wargame news and terrain
    Wayland Games: Age of Sigmar Helsmiths of Hashunt & More - Wayland Games: Delve back into the dark and gritty aura of Necromunda this week, where The Bastions of Law see new additions, ready to stamp out local unre...
  • Wargamer Blue
    Kicking it with the Homies - The feared El Taco Cartel homies are kicking it Southside, plotting and scheming on ways to get product across or under the border. Figures are 28mm S...
  • Wargaming for Grown-ups
    It's all Crete to me - Chris K is running the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society team at the Other Partizan this year as I'm away. He's doing another WW2 game, which he assu...
  • wargaming in 28 mm and sometimes smaller
    Saga-Age of Crusades- Sort Of! - As a part of the Montreal Historical Wargaming Club's AGM yesterday we finished off with some games of Saga. I was interested in getting one of my Age of...
  • Wargaming Miscellany
    The Fourth Portable Wargame Compendium: A progress report - I have been doggedly working on the next edition of the PORTABLE WARGAME COMPENDIUM (the fourth) and I have so far laid out three articles and have at le...
  • Wargaming the Zulu War
    Rorke's Drift at the Shed - * Rorke's Drift. It's quiet. Too quiet* After the epic recreation of Isandlwana at the Shed on Sunday morning, the table was re-dressed for the battl...
  • Warhammer Fantasy Battle Tabletop Gaming
    Warhammer Fantasy Battle Database Update - Current edition army books only filter, 5,000 searchable battles archive, double batrep notes and more exclusive member accolades. Hi folks, I've been twe...
  • Warrior Pope's Italian Wars
    The battle of Milan 1522 - We played a big Pike and Shotte game up at the club on Sunday. I set up a semi historical scenario based on the battle of Bicocca. The rules were fun and not...
  • Waterloo to Mons
    elegant wedding shoes in 2015 - [image: awesome satin wedding shoes by shoekandi] you are now visiting* awesome satin wedding shoes by shoekandi* , And in this page we have more than 5 be...
  • West Models & Figures
    New(ish) man cave. - Hello all, A few months back the wife wanted my son to have a larger room so I was kicked out of the guest room into a smaller room. The bribe was it would...
  • Will ye go to Flanders
    Peter Watkin's "Culloden" - *The* Battle of Culloden offers a somewhat tenuous clue to the identity of the unfortunate gentlemen referred to in my *previous post*, but is certainly re...
  • Will's Wargames Blog
    South West Model Show - Bovington - A quick dump of the pictures I took at the show on Saturday. To be sorted/labelled
  • World War 20mm
    1941/42 German Vehicles -
  • WW2 - Somewhere in France
    Harbour Raid ... The Game.... - *Early morning at the small port of St Honore-Sur-Mer.......* *Amended 02/06/2025 to add some notes on the game (see end of the post)* ---oXo--- German sen...
  • WW2 Small Scale Miniatures
    HAPPY NEW YEAR - its been a while, work and life preclude me from adding anything of value BUT i found these !!! never before seen..... One of the last armoured engagements...
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