Megablitz and more

 This was a game in the style of a dodgy war film and owes much to Ian Drury's 2005 game The Guns Of Toblerone (I ran it again in 2012 -...

I understand there is another competition underway in Japan but the real struggle took place last night on our regular wargaming Zoom call. ...

A friend of a friend is a midwife. This was on the status board when she went to work the other day...

For those of you who, like me, lament the disappearance of the Airfix SAM-2 kit, salvation may be at hand.  I have found one for sale!  I...

Well nearly.  At around 1830 yesterday a sleet shower turned to snow and began to settle.  The photo above shows the motor pool at Megabli...

AMW was this year's Plenary Game at COW.  Although this was my idea and design, the real blame must surely lie with others for failing t...

For the plenary game* at the forthcoming Conference Of Wargamers I need a 'fleet ' of warships,  I already had two big plastic toy...

While tidying up the blog a bit I noticed this unfinished report from COW last year.  Presented by Jim Roche, this session recounted his la...

So there I was in the garden photographing my bodged-up 1/48-ish scale M-247 Sgt. Yuk.   Suddenly the view through the camera is obscured ...

While on holiday last week I spotted this headline in a local paper and decided it was too good to resist.  Life imitating art?  Well gam...

The recent sci-fi game I reported on saw Darth himself getting stuck in.  I was so taken with the following sequence of photos that I felt...

Postings have been a bit thin recently as we've had a few days away in the Lake District.  Mostly much-needed 'down time'. An...

During the recent Megablitz game at the Defence Academy Shrivenham, I stuck my Michelin map to a whiteboard using a blob of Blu-Tac which ...

While on holiday in Whitby last week I sloped off for a day to meet up with fellow blogger Stephen Beat. A jolly chat about toys was the ...

It's the same every year.  I start piling up stuff for WD's  Conference Of Wargamers the previous weekend and by Thursday I'm f...

My Triples purchases conclude with these ridiculous dice.  Other than not having bought any silly dice for ages I can't explain why I b...

The Daily Snooze         10 April 1912   Naval flotilla dispatched to Vulgaria! "Send a gunboat" urges Empress   It can ...

In celebration of the centenary of the publication of Little Wars  by H.G.Wells, Mike at Black Hat Miniatures has announced this special 54m...