For Christmas I picked up a copy of Big CoC2, the supplement that guides you through creating larger battles in CoC2. This is a case of trying to run before you can walk as I am relatively new to the rules, but I like the idea of larger bat…
I haven’t written up a battle report for ages, or indeed posted at all on this blog, but have been really enjoying our foray into the Lardies’ Chain of Command rules. The other day I decided to game solo, with the intention of fielding my n…
Last week Brian North and I played out a new scenario by Brian, the Battle of Zalamaea. The following is extracted from Brian’s excellent background on the battle: Zalamea is the second of the long series of duels between Ballesteros and el…
I have wanted to add this unique unit to my Peninsular British forces for a while now, and finally had the time to tackle it. Their all black uniform makes them very distinctive, and the shako plume created an interesting challenge as well.…
Along with a purchase I made of someone’s retired 1/72 unpainted Napoleonic collection a year or two ago I was also gifted a large number of Strelets dismounted French dragoons. Dismounted dragoons don’t have much opportunity to appear on m…
Alan and I were at each others’ throats again, this time with a scenario based on a delaying action fought by Maucune's division against lead elements of Graham's forces at Beasain and Villafranca on June 24, 1813. The French player's aim i…
We had a really interesting game last weekend, another Peninsular War scenario from the fertile brain of Brian North, based on the cat and mouse games Ballesteros played with the French behind enemy lines in Estremadura and Andalucia in the…
A couple of weeks ago Alan and I got into another of Brian North’s Spanish/French scenarios, this one based on the Battle of Belchite, June 18th, 1809. It follows up chronologically the battles of Alcaniz and Maria, which we had played prev…
For me it was love at first sight when one of the guys at Bennos forum directed me to Black Watch Miniatures and I saw their Spanish cavalry. There was something about the slightly emaciated-looking horses and war weary poses that made me t…
We were back to WWII again this month, moving on from our brief foray into North Africa to the long-awaited Sicilian invasion of July 1943. Three days after the launching of the invasion, the British 1st Parachute Division, in Operation Fus…
We played the last of Jonathan Jones’ three scenarios from his book O’er the Hills Early Peninsular War that cover the main attack at Talavera on July 28, 1809. Previously the British had narrowly held on to the right flank against Victor’s…
We moved on to the fourth scenario in O'er the Hills, Jonathan Jones Peninsular War scenarios book, the attack on the Pajar Vegara Redoubt. After the failed morning attack on the British left Victor was back at it, launching a major attack