Wargaming4grownups

I ran Sir Harry Smith's "battle without a mistake" back in January, using tweaked Neil Thomas 19th century rules. I can't say it was a great success. Since then I've painted more toys and thought more about how the game might work. I originally thought that the "Taiping Era" model probably wasn't suitable for combat where generally neither side had superior self belief. Of co...

It's the time of the year for MKWS's Campaign show in Milton Keynes. If you don't know anything about it, it takes place in a shopping mall, and it's free to enter. Well, actually it's in the open plaza in front of John Lewis so it isn't so much "free to enter" as "you can't avoid walking through it". We were show casing our 2026 game, which is about 6th Northants Battalion i...

We were back with Chris' space men and ultra-ultra-modern experiments this week. The younger members of our group turned out to be unavailable, so the Grognards (Chris, Phil & I) had to make do.

With the drafting and re-drafting of "From Pike to Bayonet" in full swing (more or less) it was time to give the rules a table top airing again.

The Ronssoy 1918 game is the Northamptonshire Battlefields Society's display game for this year, so you'll be seeing it at Campaign and Partizan. This requires it to be stored in a transportable box and put up and taken down in half an hour for each. I do a fair amount of prep to make sure this can be done and to double check that I've covered everything. The terrain board is...