We recently played an Indian Mutiny game using the Perry Brothers Valour & Fortitude rules. The rules came out last year as an insert in the October 23 Wargames Illustrated magazine. I…
Tag: Historical
Rebasing My Thirty Years War Troops
Some time ago, I picked up some TYW dragoons and pimped them up to fill out my TYW/ECW troop selection. I decided to experiment with a new basing model for the army…
V&F – Battle of Mudki, December, 1845.
Background The Battle of Mudki was fought on 18 December 1845, between the forces of the East India Company and part of the Sikh Khalsa Army, the army of then declining Sikh Empire of the Punjab. The Sikh Empire of the Punjab had been held…
FOW – 15mm Terrapins and Pontoons!
Being a bit of a tread head, I have a soft spot for odd looking military vehicles. This extends into soft skin vehicles. Well, I came across some British Terrapin amphibian transports…
Fall-in 2024, Lancaster Pennsylvania
Another HMGS event in the books! I attended this year’s HMGS Fall-In Convention in Lancaster in Lancaster last weekend. The event provided the usual fair of games, vendors, flea markets, classes and…
BBB – Battle of Kesselsdorf, December 1745.
Background The Battle of Kesselsdorf was fought on 15 December 1745, between the Kingdom of Prussia and the combined forces of the Archduchy of Austria and the Electorate of Saxony during the part of the War of the Austrian Succession known…
U-505 at the Chicago Museum of Science and Technology.
On the final leg of our tour, we drove through Chicago and had to stop at the Chicago Museum of Science and Technology. Specifically, we had to see the U-505 U-boat! Another…
Gajo 15mm Napoleonic Prussians and Portuguese.
I was checking on the Gajo sight and saw they had restocked their 15mm Prussian Grenadier and Portuguese infantry for the Napoleonic Wars. I wanted a unit of Grenadiers to go with…
Little Big Horn Battlefield National Park.
After spending a day and a half in Yellowstone, the next stop on our trip was the Little Big Horn National Park. So, off to Montana! The battlefield is located in the…
Battlefield Terrain Concepts Hay Bundles.
I like to put down a lot of scatter terrain on my game tables. One of the things I tend to use are hay bundles. Well, I have a number of these,…