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He's a member of the Orkney Wargames Club, which meets in Kirkwall on Thursday evenings.
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Misc., Wargame Show, The Other Partizan, Newark This weekend a group of us went to two wargame shows – Border Reivers in Newcaslte (Saturday 6th September) and The Other Partizan in Newark (Sunday 7th September). Unfortunately I left my camera in the car in Newcastle (distracted by the pelting rain). Therefore I missed out on
Misc., Wargame Show, Edinburgh Well, another Claymore has come and gone – the last one in its present cramped venue. next year we’ll be moving to a bigger, brighter and much better venue on the other side of town. As usual the show was a chance to chat to old pals, to meet new people,
Misc., The Marlburian Era, Beneath the Lilly Banners, 28mm While its nice to get your own toys out, sometimes I appreciate games where I don’t have to bring along hundreds of figures. When someone suggested playing a “Marlburian” game, to try out Beneath the Lilly Banners, then I acquiesced. That’s because other people had whole
Misc., WWI Aerial Combat, Wings of War, 1/144 scale While I wouldn’t call this “proper” wargaming, it was great fun. A new craze in the club is First World War air combat, prompted by Jules of Figures in Comfort coming in and selling everyone planes and rules. I was suckered into it too, and not
Misc., Wargame Show, Falkirk I visited this excellent wargames show, and whiled away a few hours chatting with friends, buying lead I don’t really need, and looking at some very attractive demonstration and participation games.Here are some of my favourites – a colourful Thirty Years War game, and interesting refight of Leuthen (1757) in 15mm,
Misc., Pirates, Legends of the High Seas, 28mm This multi-player game was inspired by the release of Legends of the High Seas, a set of pirate rules produced by Warhammer “Historical”. The idea was that the ten players were divided up into five teams, each with a ship-based group and a land one. There were
Misc., Wargame Show, York A group of us went down in the train to the wargame show in York, and a great day out it was.Of course in Britain, rail journeys are a real nightmare, as each train is run by a different company, the stations are run by another lot, and there’s even another
Misc., Wild West, Legends of the Old West, 28mm Once every few months a few of us get together for a weekend game – a large multi-player affair. Well, this one was a Wild West shootout, with eight different gangs, fighting through the sizeable town of Red Rock and its neighbouring Mexican village. My crowd
Misc., Renaissance Skirmish, El Dorado – a home-grown set, 28mm I’d rather hoped to play a game with Chris Henry’s superb collection of Conquistadors and Aztecs, but that game is still on hold. Instead Colin Jack asked us to playtest his new show participation game – a rather silly affair based on a bizarre event. In 1541
Misc., Wild West, Legends of the Old West, 28mm OK, I’ll be the first to ‘fess up. I played a Warhammer game! There. I said it. Its a slippery slope, and before you know it I’ll be playing with Orcs, Tree Goblins and Third Level Wizards. The story goes, wargaming compadre Colin Jack is planning
