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He's a member of the Orkney Wargames Club, which meets in Kirkwall on Thursday evenings.
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A Very British Civil War, Homegrown Rules, 28mm In The Very British Civil War guide to the fighting in Scotland it says that; “Shetland occupies a strategic position for shipping between the Atlantic and the North Sea”. I beg to differ. This was written by a Shetlander with an axe to grind, as the barren,
The American War of Independence, Black Powder, 28mm This weekend three of us flew up to the neighbouring island of Shetland, to take part in an inter-island wargaming weekend with the Thule Wargames Club of Shetland. The airfield in Shetland is just eighty miles north of the one in Orkney, but it was like stepping
Modern Wars, Bolt Action, 28mm When I decided to run a small modern game the original plan was to use Force on Force rules. Unfortunately its a long time since I last used them, and I didn’t have time to re-read them as thoroughly as I wanted. They can be something of a mindf**k, particularly
The Seven Years War, Black Powder, 28mm Having seized some of Dougie Trail’s Seven Years War collection, in reparations for him losing my Russians in a nightclub (don’t ask), I thought I’d use some of them in a Black Powder game, up in Orkney. This was a two-player affair, with two brigades of infantry (3
