By Paul D. Stevenson The View Across Wilson’s Battlefield Game Preparation The Black Powder rules cover 1700-1900 – a broad period spectrum it is true but the authors have managed to avoid many of the usual minefields and pitfalls by making the rules so very open-ended and adaptable on a strong, yet essentially simple gaming…
Category: Battle Report
Sharp Practice: American War of Independence
Well, a new day, a new set of rules….this time “Sharp Practice” from the “Too Fat Lardies” stable. There are a number of lardies (in both senses of the word) but this was the first time our little sub-group had tried out the rules… The sides were: British: CiC – Colonel Archiebald Andrews on Horse…
Flashman and the Pirates
as presented at Border Reiver 2008 by Durham Wargames Group This game combined into one event two related operations of the Royal Navy in the 1840s against Chinese pirates and those of Borneo. As far as is known, there was never a Sino-Dyak alliance, but as the Chinese diaspora was already very sizeable we felt…
Viva El Potato!
A Company Level Game set in the Spanish Civil War “I’ve got some 42mm Spanish Civil War figures. Have you got some rules we could use for them?” Now that’s not the sort of challenge that gets turned down at Durham Wargames Group and soon plans were afoot for a showdown in Castilla la Mancha…
Cynoscephalae
7500 point Warhammer Ancients Clash An all-day Saturday spectacular, Cynoscephalae, featuring some venerable (Minifigs, Garrison, Lamming, etc) toys and Warhammer Ancients rules. No write-up but here are some photos…
Crisis 2004
Lutzen on tour! The Lutzen demo is aired again: this time at Crisis 2004, the show staged by those marvelous chaps at Tin Soldiers of Antwerp. A full write-up will appear soon, but in the meantime, here’s some photos…