Back to Chain of Command and the next game in our Abbeville campaign. I am now fighting to the end with this platoon albeit I do get reinforcements if required, which I am sure they will be as Matt can replace his platoon with a fresh one i…
Picked up grandson James on our return from Claymore for a week at Casa Papa's. I have been educating him in old sayings like "once in a blue moon" and movie quotes such as "Get away from her, bitch!" and "bajes! We don't need no steenking
Picked up grandson James on our return from Claymore for a week at Casa Papa's. I have been educating him in old sayings like "once in a blue moon" and movie quotes such as "Get away from her, bitch!" and "bajes! We don't need no steenking
Today it was back to Chain of Command and our Abbeville campaign, this is the second phase and now the Germans are attacking. This scenario was to be 'Blitzkrieg' as per the 1940's Handbook, Matt had twelve support points against my eight,
A quick trip to Penrith this morning in lovely sunshine to hide away underground playing wargames. Matt had set out a larger table than usual for the Napoleonic battle of Rolica, I confess I don't know a lot about Napoleonic campaigns apart…
Another week another game. I was invited down to Erik's for an ECW refight of Braddock Down with all his usual attention to detail. The scenario was for an historic action fought in January 1643 and on arriving there was once again a beauti…
Both my sons have been spending a lot of time with me recently and Stewart, the one who wargames, has made efforts to meet me across the table on more occasions than before. He let me know he wanted to fight a large, probably two day Americ…
A trip to the Dungeon this week, I asked Matt to surprise me and he managed, Italians vs Greeks, early war. The new Greeks Matt has almost completed look really nice, and if I may say so without annoying any snowflakes typically Greek, I ca…
Seems to have been a bit since I last posted or maybe that is just my mind playing tricks, which it seems to do these days with increasing regularity. I feel the need to rant against the world but I won't burden you with it here.A week or s…
Before I go on I will get to the title. I have started a new project, there I said it. I have had quite a runaround from our 'World Beating' NHS over the past month or so and this married to the fact I am missing painting and collecting wee…
Grab a drink and settle down. Rob arrived on the Friday night in very good time from Bristol considering it was the beginning of a Bank Holiday weekend, four hours, on Britains crumbling infrastructure that is excellent going. First thing S…
Good friend Billy turned up from beyond The Wall for a couple of days of Chain of Command a welcome visit. I found three linked battles we could easily do in the time allotted as a full campaign would be out of the question, it was an attac…