Author: Michael Charge

  • Wargaming Week 27/04/2020

    The Isolation continues! I took the last few weeks off as my motivation and brain took a crash and really couldn’t focus on anything hobby related. Instead, I’ve been working and playing video games. But, I have decided to come back and try a new thing. Streaming Yep. Streaming. Having picked up a webcam and…

  • Wargaming Week 07/04/2020

    The sun might be coming out in the UK but isolation will continue. Despite being home, the hobby energy is still a little low – mostly because I’m playing a ton of Modern Warfare as this season of content comes to an end. I’m definitely going to write a post or two about that game…

  • Wargaming Week 30/03/2020

    Well, everyone enjoying the isolation? NEWS Empress are still putting out new releases during this trying time. Including one I’ve been long awaiting, the Vickers MMG team for the Late War Brits! As someone whose Chain of Command games usually rely on taking the Vickers as a must-have support option, seeing a version now available…

  • Wargaming Week 23/03/2020

    Well things have gotten a little strange, haven’t they? Let’s start! News Well, the main news this week is that everything is cancelled due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Pretty much all the wargames shows for the spring (such as Salute and Adepticon) are definitely cancelled or postponed, while even those in Summer and Autumn…

  • Wargaming Week 16/03/2020

    Let’s start this Wargaming Week, covering the… Actually new plan – I’m going to scrap the previous layout. Frankly, it has started to feel a little formulaic, and it gets dull when I just write “no hobby lol”. Instead, I’m going to split the post in half – wargaming news at the top (which a…

  • Relocating Hobby HQ

    Big news time – I’m taking a break from writing stuff for this blog. If you follow me on Twitter, you may know that my day job is currently based in Edinburgh (more details there, trying not to cross the streams too hard). However, I’m originally from Leeds and with family and friends in the…

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  • Wargaming Week 03/02/2020

    Let’s start this Wargaming Week, covering the 27th of January through to the 3rd of February. NEWS New releases from Empress – they are extending their builders yard to now include a set of damaged apartment blocks, letting you easily build out a larger city using them. They do look like some big chunky resin,…

  • Wargaming Week 27/01/2020

    Let’s start this Wargaming Week, covering the 20th through to the 26th of January. NEWS Surprisingly nothing – seems like everyone is busy getting ready for various shows or preparing for the delightful situation we’re going to be in at the end of the month. PURCHASES The one thing that arrived this week is Zona…

  • Wargaming Week 20/01/2020

    Let’s start this Wargaming Week, covering the 13th through to the 19th of January. Blog Stuff I got back to my fantasy project! Really happy with the response to the first post -this has been a side project I’ve been working on during my downtime last year. I’m really excited about actually getting the figures…

  • Project Fantasy Skirmish – Update 1

    So it’s been a while since I last talked about Fantasy Skirmishing. Mainly because, like a wargames butterfly, I was distracted by something shiny and disappeared off into doing non-wargaming things for a bit (as well as losing motivation). However, this didn’t stop me picking more models and continuing to think about adventures Name Change…

  • Wargaming Week 13/01/2020

    Let’s start this Wargaming Week, covering the 6th through to the 12th of January. NEWS View this post on Instagram And a bit more work on the previously shown models… #spectreminiatures #spectreoperations #modernwarfare #modernminiatures #ultramodern #tabletopgames A post shared by Spectre (@spectreminiatures) on Jan 9, 2020 at 5:07am PST Spectre has awoken from it’s Christmas…

  • Wargaming Week – Christmas!

    Let’s start this Wargaming Week, covering the Christmas Break! Blog Stuff In a shocking turn of events, I actually got two blog articles done! And posted! I guess most of you have read them. Before Christmas, I managed to get my impressions on the Sarissa Walled Compound finished. These kits have some great potential, and…

  • Battle Report: “OPERATION CHlSEL” – Chain of Command

    Christmas is the time I return home to Leeds. As well as family events, I usually end up using it to encounter my Regular Opponent and get a game of something in. This year, myself and Regular Opponent got invited up North to partake in some Chain of Command, my favourite set of WW2 rules…

  • Initial Impressions: Walled Ambassador’s Residence Set

    As a modern wargamer bogged down in endless tiny conflicts in the Middle East, it can occasionally be difficult to find suitable buildings to fight through. Many I’ve covered here, but otherwise, you’re stuck picking up a whole host of generic adobes that don’t quite have the same feeling as the built-up and developed areas…

  • Wargaming Week 16/12/2019

    Let’s start this Wargaming Week, covering the 9th through to the 15th of December. Blog Stuff I am partway through writing up my initial impressions of the Ambassador’s Compound I showed off last week, mostly trying to get into details so everyone reading can know how best to pick it up and expand it. It’s…

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