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The News Stand: 24/07/2026

Summer is here, and so the cup doesn’t quite floweth over as everyone takes time out. However, there are still some great previews for all things Ultramodern this week, so read on for more!

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Letter From The Hobby Desk: April 2023

04/04/2023

The biggest problem when running a wargaming blog is deciding the pace and tempo of blog posts you want to do. Okay, that’s a lie – the biggest problem when running a wargaming blog is knowing when not to add new projects to the pile. But that’s impossible to fix so I’m going to focus on the tempo thing. For some people, their rhythm of posting is hammering out lots of small posts, often with one picture and a load of text – I love Jim’s Wargames Workbench for this very fact as you get to see how projects develop…
Operation Drop Bear – Building The Platoon

31/03/2023

I’ve previously mentioned that, as part of my Long War series against the tactics of the Dastardly Regular Opponent, we would shortly begin a Pint Size Campaign-inspired set of missions pitting our tactical minds against each other in the deserts of North Africa. After some research, and agreeing to play some games with the Germans on the offensive rather than sitting back with the MGs, the DRO decided upon Torbruk, pitting the Germans on the offensive against British and Commonwealth positions. With initial planning for the campaign being done by the DRO channelling some of his day job (hitting the…
SITREP: Back To Arnhem Boys!

24/03/2023

Listen, you may not know this, but I have a thing about Operation Market Garden in WW2. Probably because the first game I actually tried to sit down and learn to play (rather than simply slapping the buttons to see if it worked) was Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far. Not the best choice for a 5 or 6 year old but technically it counts as history and honestly my Dad was better equipped to actually win missions. Even to this day, specific voice lines from that game echoes in both my head and his. This, of course, means that…
SITREP: A Weekend of Wargames

20/03/2023

Well, this has been a busy weekend. You readers will only be interested in the first half (unless for some reason you want to know about Mother’s Day celebrations which is, bad news, not the topic of this blog). Instead, lets talk about some wargaming things! On Friday, I finished work early and drove over to York. For a change, it was not for my usual reason (go play the Dastardly Regular Opponent) but instead to go meet the team behind Flytrap Factory who are in the process of touring around the UK on holiday. If you don’t know Flytrap,…
SITREP: That Spectre Post

17/03/2023

So, how is everyone doing? Having a good week? Enjoyed last week’s return to blogging/wargaming talk? I finished off last week with some comments that I am in the process of writing up a blog post about our industry favourite Spectre and their current fortunes. This apparently warranted an email and later that evening I received an email from the company asking about my intentions while writing about them. Last weekend I was house painting, so I took a couple of days before responding back with an answer, explaining the aim of the post and offering to work out a…
I’m Back! And now in Technicolour!

10/03/2023

Surprise. I’m back! And I’m not going to talk about buying a house this time! House renovation, no promises. So good news, I survived the process of buying and decorating a house. It’s not entirely done, still got a few rooms to finish off, but now I get to focus on having my own space to do what I want to do, rather than having at least 25% of my brain power devoted to other things like “dealing with the landlord” when something breaks. Or waiting for my mortgage to be approved. Or having to pack up literally everything I…
The Long War: Part 0 – Remembering How The Game Works

06/03/2023

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know I’m a big fan of Too Fat Lardies Chain of Command. You’ll also know that my Dastardly Regular Opponent is also keen on the game. Before the Great Move, we had roughly scheduled gaming into our calendars once a month (the most frequent we could arrange due to the regular opponent being busy with other commitments). The problem with this arrangement was although we managed to hit pretty reliably, we ended up trying to play lots of different things. And as anyone bouncing around playing different rulesets can tell…
SITREP – Mail Call

23/01/2023

Yeah yeah, I’m on hiatus (currently mostly stripping wallpaper and stressing) but that doesn’t stop the parcels from turning up and my hobby life from continuing. First of all, good news on the BPRE front – after the issues with my first box of figures, Echelon then sent over some replacements. After a little panic when it turned out Hermes was delivering them, I successfully managed to get it diverted to my neighbour while I was away. After recovering it, I cracked it open and was very happy to see a set of figures without any of the major defects…