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Month: September 2017

Operation Dragon’s Hoard: 100 Years of War, Falkirk

All the posts so far have been leading up to this: the first play through of the game. The original plan had been to go in at the deep end and running the first attempt at a proper show. After that fell through, running the trial at a smaller event made a little more sense.…

Demo Game, Features, Operation Dragon’s Hoard, Skirmish Sangin, Wargaming

29/09/2017
Plausible Deniability – News

What’s this? A new post on a Tuesday evening? That’s not on the schedule! The extra post is for one reason – Plausible Deniability (The new book for Skirmish Sangin I’ve been working on for about a year) has gone to the printers. We don’t want to put an exact date on it but it’s on the final…

Features, Plausible Deniability, Skirmish Sangin, Wargaming

26/09/2017
Wargaming Week 25/09/2017

Let’s start, covering the 18th through to the 24th. BLOG STUFF This week’s post was looking at how my demo board is going! The last time I posted about it was back in May where the boards were still mostly wood and the plane was in the box. Now the boards have been played on, the…

Wargaming, Wargaming Week

25/09/2017
Operation Dragon’s Hoard: Part 4 – Final Approach

So there has been quite a gap since my last update (back in May) and since then a lot has changed. The game went from pie in the sky idea to actual game that is about to run in the next few days. I am both excited and terrified. THE PLAN So in the last…

Demo Game, Features, Operation Dragon’s Hoard, Skirmish Sangin, Wargaming

22/09/2017
Wargaming Week 18/09/2017

Let’s start, covering the 11th through to the 17th. BLOG STUFF My post on REDvector’s buildings went up! I was a little ashamed of how long it took me to review these buildings seeing as I liked them a lot but it was just finding the time to write the post up. This week’s post will…

Wargaming, Wargaming Week

18/09/2017
Impressions: REDvectors’s MDF Buildings

You may have noticed some MDF buildings lurking in the background of many of my impressions pieces. I’ve had some comments on them and so this reminded me I really should get my impressions up before they get ruined by my slap-dash painting style. I picked up these buildings after bouncing a long chain of…

Features, Impressions, Terrain, Wargaming

15/09/2017
Wargaming Week 11/09/2017

Let’s start, covering the 3rd through to the 11th of September BLOG STUFF Last weeks post was covering the completed SF Technicals. As I said in the post, this was really a nice self-contained project. Just a chance to focus on building some cool vehicles and a selection of gear, made easier via Spectre’s great range…

Features, Wargaming

11/09/2017
Non-Standard Tactical Vehicles – Building the SF Technicals

When the full details for the SF upgrades to the technicals were announced, I could see that assembling these vehicles ready to support my operators on the field was going to be a fun project. Thanks to sheer variety of stowage and other bits to upgrade them with, building my Non-Standard Tactical Vehicles needed some…

Features, Technical, Wargaming

08/09/2017
Wargaming Week 04/09/2017

Let’s start, covering the 28th of August through to the 3rd of September. BLOG STUFF Two actual posts this week – a look at Empress’s releases and a battle report from Thursday’s game. Both posts were great fun to work on – the rush to speed paint figures in time for a deadline and then the…

Wargaming, Wargaming Week

04/09/2017
Battle Report: “The Welcome Party” – Spectre Operations

Having been asked last week to plan a game, I sat back and had a careful think about what might be an exciting scenario to get my opponent’s figures on the table. Some sort of escort mission maybe but what to protect? As my eyes wandered across the various modern wargaming Facebook groups I settled…

Battle Reports, Features, Spectre Operations, Spectre Reports, Wargaming

01/09/2017

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