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  • Battle Report: Black Powder “The Battle of Newark 1776”

    Up until now, I have only been writing reports for modern wargames battles.However, seeing as my fellow wargamers at SESWC report on all the games they play, I thought I should follow them and branch out a little to show the variety of games that are played down the club. This week – Black Powder! A…

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  • Spectre Operations Starting Lists

    As a fan of Spectre Operations, I’ve been spending a lot of time on the Spectre Operations Wargaming Group. Due to this, I’ve seen a fair number of people looking to get into the game for the first time and seeking advice as to what they should be getting in terms of figures. True, you…

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  • Battle Report: Spectre Operations 03/11/2016

    If you haven’t realised based off previous posts, my wargaming opponents are split between friends down in York and SESWC up in Edinburgh. Having introduced Spectre to the guys in York, it was now time to try it out with the Edinburgh crowd. Here is how things went down After the SAS operation robbed them…

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  • Preview Post!

    Got a demo game down at SESWC tomorrow to show off Spectre Operations. Expect a report coming soon! As a preview, here is one of the sides

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  • Battle Report: Spectre Operations 23/10/2016

    I’m writing this just after two weeks of manic work and then a weekend away getting back to the airsofting/shootmans for the first time in a while. Airsoft was really good, great site and I got to rock and roll with my favourite airsoft gun that hasn’t been used in a year (thanks Timehop for…

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  • Project Little Bird Begins

    There is a set of rules in Skirmish Sangin I haven’t had the chance to really use and that’s the helicopter rules (introduced in Dispatches 2 and Day of the Rangers). Part of this is down to the missions I’ve played (if adding the vehicles boosted up the points, adding a helo is something else…

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  • Testing Report: Skirmish Sangin 08/09/2016

    The last few reports I wrote were done in a narrative fashion. I’m not abandoning that format, but as this is a special game I’m going back to a more descriptive style. Rather than using a pre-made scenario, I instead decided to spring on them a brand new, beta version of a scenario I had…

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  • Model Wishlist

    Updated: Added The Squad from Special Forces One of the joys of ultramodern military wargaming is the absolutely massive amount of reference material. Reality is obviously a starting point but modern and near future can pull from a huge number of different media sources, from games to movies to tv shows. There is also a…

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  • Wargaming News

    August has been a pretty quiet month for me – I spent most of it on holiday (either in Edinburgh or down in Leeds) or hard at work. However, I did manage to get some more models painted up. Apart from some new weapon teams and their crews, all of my Afghan OPFOR are ready…

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  • US Army Infantry Squad

    Cranking on with the painting, I’ve finally got my 10 US Army infantrymen painted up. I had tried an early version using multiple colours but the end result was way too green (it almost looked like MARPAT) so I redid it. The squad is only the very basic version with its basic TOE setup(1 squad leader…

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  • Battle Report: Skirmish Sangin 21/07/2016

    Seeing as people liked the last game, here is the followup. I’m forming a rough campaign taking the results of the last game and bringing it forward. I played this at SESWC using a tweaked version of the Compound 17 scenario from the rulebook.  48 hours earlier… “Round of applause for Team 2 everyone” joked the…

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  • Afghan Civilians

    I showed a few of these figures off in my last painting bench post but I now have a few more done, about half way through them all. Its slow going as I’m approaching each figure individually while still using a similar colour palette to make them fit together aesthetically. Exception being one of the footballers in…

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  • On The Work Bench 27/06/2016

    So I’ve got a few more things sat waiting to be painted and some stuff I have finished painting. Finished painting: First up, Empress’s new SAS are now playable. Most finished, just need some sandy drybrushing and basing materials. I also need to finish off the team’s marksman. They did a good job in their…

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  • Battle Report: Skirmish Sangin: 21/06/2016

    Skirmish Sangin is all about the narrative and so I want to try writing some narrative reports for it. This is from a game I played at SESWC using the trusty Route Clearance scenario, although replacing the SEALs with SAS troopers thanks to Empress’s new releases. EDIT: Pictures at the bottom of the article. Night, and the lights…

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  • British Recce WMIK – Pre-Painting

    Finally got round to assembling the other landrover that came in the box with the Snatch thats been sat fully built and basecoated since I was in Brighton. I had already built most the frame but put a hold in order to wait for crew to fit them in properly. Empress, makers of the rest…

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