11 September 2023

Cyber Punk Inspired Sci Fi Action

This was a fun game, using Firefight rules, with Forge Fathers (Dwarves in Space) against Orcs/Marauders. The dwarves proved too tough for the Orcs and won fairly convincingly. 

The terrain is largely scratch-built, with amazing attention to detail. It was inspired by Mantic Games terrain crates, the movie 'Blade Runner', along with a number of sci-fi city art books.




















07 September 2023

Russo-Turkish War 1877-78 - Images Found

A number of years ago we had some Russo-Turkish War encounters. I had though that the photos were probably lost, following the move of this Blog from a Webpage. Also, the collection was sold to a wargamer in New Zealand.

Thankfully, this great blog site - 'History in 1/72' - has recorded some of the images. It's a bit of a blast from the past from this under-wargamed period:

http://historyin172.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-russo-turkish-war-1877-78.html





05 September 2023

Napoleonics - Tilting at Windmills

An interesting skirmish level game of Napoleonics using 'Rebels and Patriots' rules, that pitted a French force against a British/Hanoverian opponent, The French managed to secure the windmill objective, ensuring victory. The British were badly let down by their Hanoverian allies who fell back, then ran away, as soon as they could.

The Osprey set of rules seemed to work well for this low level skirmish type game.











13 August 2023

British Historical Gamers Society - Britcon 2023

We ran a display game at this year's Britcon. The event was highly successful and was busier than last year. The Nottingham Trent University venue really seems to work well. Here are some photos of our 1/35th scale WWII, along with other images from the event:






























08 August 2023

Ork Fest! - A wonderful Parade Featuring the 'Pretty Boys' of the Galaxy

Don't they look pretty? We'll, they do say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. These excellently painted Games Workshop 40K Orks actually took part in a game of Mantic's 'Firefight' and won.