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He's a member of the Orkney Wargames Club, which meets in Kirkwall on Thursday evenings.
See their Facebook page for more info.
The French & Indian War, Muskets & Tomahawks, 28mm This week the usual Orkney suspects were joined by Tim Watson from the SESWC, who was up in Orkney on holiday. Autumn is a strange time to visit, but he and his wife were reasonably lucky with the weather. Anyway, in honour of his visit we
The French & Indian War, Muskets & Tomahawks, 28mm This week I went along to the Edinburgh club and brought my French & Indian toys with me. The game that followed was a multi-player skirmish, with the French attacking a peaceful farming community in Vandalia (my semi-fictitious English colony), and a British garrison marching to the
The French & Indian War, Muskets & Tomahawks, 28mm I blundered. We played a French & Indian Wars game this week, and guess who forgot their camera? I tried taking pictures with my mobile phone, but as I hadn’t read the instructions they were dreadful – all out of focus and shaky. So, I’ve resorted
The French & Indian War, Muskets & Tomahawks, 28mm While I’ve played several games using Muskets & Tomahawks, many others in the Edinburgh club hadn’t. This then was a chance for many of them to try the rules out for the first time. The game was staged over at Hugh Wilson’s house, and the rather
The French & Indian War, Muskets & Tomahawks, 28mm This game was always going to be a little special. I was up in Orkney, and Dave Ryan from Caliver Books was visiting the island. Also, Peter Marshall was visiting the place, a guy who last wargamed with me when we were both teenagers, in what
The French & Indian War, Muskets & Tomahawks, 28mm After working our way through a Tabletop Teaser for the forthcoming Wargamers’ Annual 2013 (one we can’t divulge details of yet), Chris Werb and I had a little spare time left, so we tried another game using the new Muskets & Tomahawks rules. these rules had
The French & Indian War, A Good Day to Die / War in the Forest, 28mm I’m not usually a fan of skirmish games, but we hadn’t played this for a while, I had a new unit which needed to be blooded, and so we gave the period another go. The premise was that two Abenaki
The French & Indian War, A Good Day to Die, 28mm The next game was one laid on by some gaming chums at the club, involving what appeared to be a jungle dotted with aquarium rock outcrops. Dinosaurs roamed over the table, where they were hunted down by teams of 28mm figures who drove around
Skulking around in the woods I’m not usually a great fan of skirmish games, but that’s the best level to treat this offshoot of the Seven Years War. Forget the few big battles and sieges such as Quebec and Louisbourg – the real wargaming potential of this conflict is found in the struggle in the
