Wargaming4grownups

As previously trailed there was some doubt about the viability for the proposed garden game. As it turned out we were okay, but I'd done some thinking about what we might play in SHQ instead if called upon. This meant that when the garden game finished with an hour or two before we were due down the pub, Tim M and I nipped into SHQ to set the figures out whilst everyone else ...

Tim Gow of Megablitz and more is a wargaming friend. He seems to spend more time running 54mm garden games than Operational WW2 games these days. I've never been a fan, for reasons that may become clear as we go on, but it has always been the intention to run one of his games on m...

I had a busy first half of the week planned. The centrepiece was to be a large set piece game in the garden involving wargaming friends from the length and breadth of this fair land on Tuesday. The lead up to this was a bit tense, with heavy rain forecast, but enough of that for now. One of the players was to be Richard from ShedWest. We've been corresponding about my Marlbur...

The final (for me) themed DBA evening of the summer saw us back home for Dark Ages in our Sceptere'd Isle. We were all supplying our own armies (except Tim, who is still working on it) for this one. Phil had four different ones, Chris had cobbled together a couple, as had Steve. I also managed to produce two armies by virtue of owning one (III/24b Middle Anglo-Saxons) and hav...

Themed DBA rolls on across the summer. Phil's choice for this week. He went for armies linked to his Medieval Scandinavians. Being Phil he went outside the armies and enemies in the rule book and set up a walk through Baltic history, starting with the Slav invaders (who aren't in the list). His idea was that he would introduce the various inhabitants and invaders of the Scand...