Sheffield Wargames Society Annual General Meeting 2014

The AGM was held on 12 November.  The minutes will be circulated to members as soon as they are ready but here are the main points:

1. Membership fees remain unchanged at £15.00 for the year with no additional weekly fees.  This, works out at only £0.30 per week and represents stunning value!

2. Members were reminded of the Society's new web presence at
                                                 http://sheffieldwargamessociety.blogspot.co.uk/

3. The Committee for the coming year is as follows:
                                                Chairman - Tim Gow
                                                Treasurer - Dave Ranson
                                                Secretary - Paul Bishop
                                                Show Secretary - Lloyd Powell
                                                General Officer - Steve Thomas

4. The accounts Examiners are Si Harrison and Graham Northing

5. The Christmas open meeting will be on 28th December from 1.00pm

Not the AGM in progress

Sambre 57BC - part 2

We return  (after quite a break!) to the doings of a certain Mr J Ceasar.  By now the Romams had revoverd from their initial shock and formed a proper line.  Nice isn't it?

The Belgic types continued to hurl themselves at the invaders.

This caused a few worrying moments...

...no problems for the Romans here, right?

On the other hand..  Those Belgic cavalry are tougher than they look.

This is getting very messy.

Roman reserve cavalry wondering if they're not altogether better off staying where they are.

Soon the Romans deployed to deal with the breakthrough...

...and order was restored.  These Romans do love a straight line, don't they?

The end came when Ceasar (for it was he) led X Legion in person and saw off another attack.  The dice reveal 5 hits on an enemy unit (which could only take 4 hits...)

Remembrance Day 2014

As usual Sara and I attended the Remembrance Day commemoration at our village church.  The service is actually held outside the church at the war memorial which forms part of the gatehouse to the churchyard.  This allows plenty of people to take part, and the local police help out by closing the nearby roads while the event is in progress.  With this year marking the centenary of the outbreak of The Great War the service was longer then usual and included the blessing of a new flagpole which has recently been erected in the churchyard.

I know the photos (taken on my iPhone) aren't great but that's not really the point, is it?

West German Panzer Grenadiers

Following on from several earlier posts*, I have now completed my West German PzG Battalion.  Here are photos of some of it, with a repainted Leopard from the Panzer Btl sneaking in to some of the shots.  All of the figures are Airfix, while the MILAN AT missiles are scratchbuilt.

*Links to earlier posts:
Big Germans
Making a MILAN
Murderous Marder musings