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Workbench
Not had much chance to get a lot of painting in with this rotten hot weather but I have made a start on the 37mm M3 anti-tank gun and insouciant US Army crew! Really is a fab little kit from Rubicon and some nice character to the poses. They don’t look very ‘active’ which some…
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Year One: Iberia 400 BC
Last project of my first historical wargaming year, here! The club had a (somewhat abortive) Clash of Spears campaign and I decided to be not only the baddies but obscure baddies (with a side of flip-flopping)… The Iberian Tribes. After a fair few games (I’ve never won) and some interrogating of the rules writers on…
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Workbench
Today is the first day I’ve had free for ages; far too much time spent with my “loving family” recently or attending functions with “friends”. I have my first Chain of Command game with the US 2nd Armored Div vs the Italians on Monday and it struck me that I had no Patrol Markers or…
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Year One: Sicily ’43
Well apologies but we are going to the Spanish plains next time I think. This week it will be my second WW2 project which I completed a couple of months ago. It was my first foray into batch painting and was completed in anticipation of our club’s second Chain of Command campaign; the allied invasion…
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Year One: Burma ’44
I’d have to search back through some old messages but I think I was first put on to the Pacific Theatre when the historicals gang were discussing Chain of Command and the potential of using the rules to wargame the Japanese conquest of Malaya in 1942 (another hype train that gathered pace very quickly). Naturally,…
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Year One: Wars of the Roses
After re-reading the fantastic Kingmaker novels by Toby Clements I was woken up to what an incredible wargaming period the Wars of the Roses could be. I was also woken up to the fact that I know sweet FA about it and a lot of people had thought this long before I had! In March…
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Why have I done this?
It is extremely hard to write a blog and not sound like you’re broadcasting directly from the Oasthouse so I’ve decided I’m going to lean right into it! The plan is to start out by doing a handful of posts on the projects that have made up my first full year in Historical Wargaming (I…