DWG Battleground Game: Saturday 30th November 2019 By Conrad Cairns Never a group to miss the chance of jumping on a bandwagon, especially one of so slow-moving as this one is in Britain, we decided to revisit Mesoamerican warfare of the sixteenth century to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the campaigns (1519-1521) which broke the…
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God Thunders Mightily in the Steppes of Central Asia
by CONRAD CAIRNS- November 2018 A few months ago, that ever-resourceful Yorkshire firm of Irregular Miniatures released a small range of Russian foot and guns for the armies that conquered cental asian khanates between the early1860s and mid 1880s. This was the final piece we needed to game a hitherto-unexploited set of wars, which sound…
Recently Rediscovered Items of Terrain
Conrad Cairns Since the start of 2018 some of us have been dusting off (literally) and restoring pieces of DWG terrain which have been damaged over the years. While looking for such items, we discovered two fortifications which have not been used in living memory, but which are now ready for use (although a bit…
Durham Wargames Group Open Day 2018
Display Game by Conrad Cairns We had our annual Open Day on the traditional second Saturday of June. It is also traditional for the Trooping of the Colour, but with recording technology this is a good opportunity those those who like it to record it then watch and edit out the dull bits (as much…
Border Reivers!
I’m about to make a start on a gaming project set in the period of the Border Reivers….small scale skirmish, maybe about 30 figures per side. I’ve picked up some excellent figures from Hoka Hey (https://www.timelineminiatures.co.uk/), together with some of their buildings…well let’s be honest…all of their buildings…!!! I will post some updates as and…
LARDDAY on 25th March 2017 at Durham Wargames Group – a partial review
Words by Conrad Cairns Pictures by Richard Phelan The DWG has for years had an Open Day on the second Saturday of June, and has now started a new tradition. In March we put on, for a whole Saturday, a selection of games and invite fellow gamers to play. There is no fee, but you…