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He's a member of the Orkney Wargames Club, which meets in Kirkwall on Thursday evenings.
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The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm It was a rare event – Dougie Trail and I haven’t played a game together for ages – since his move to Helensburgh, and my seasonal one to Orkney. As we were both in Edinburgh at the same time we decided to stage a small Peninsular War game, with
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm For some of my French and Russians this was their second battle in a week. I’d promised Mark Colston (a teacher) to host a game before the end of the school holidays, so on Friday afternoon he came round to blood his brigade of Prussians. They formed part of
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm After a string of Dark Age or Early Medieval games this week’s clash saw a return to “proper wargaming”. In the little club in Orkney Alan Bruce and I staged a small Napoleonic game, with just two mixed brigades a side – five infantry battalions and two cavalry regiments
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm Once in a while you take part in a game that simply takes your breath away. This was one of them. A few years ago, historic novelist Iain Gale told me he had some Waterloo terrain stored in a shed. Six months ago he told me he had dug
The Seven Years War, Black Powder, 28mm The Sunday before this game was due to be played I thought I’d better come up with a scenario. I’d already planned to stage a small Seven Years War clash, but rather than a straightforward “line ’em up and fight” game I wanted something slightly more interesting. I
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
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
The American War of Independence, Black Powder, 28mm I didn’t have a game lined up this week, but I was lucky enough to take part in an American War of Independence game laid on by Michael, the club’s German member. He uses Black Powder, a rules set I’m very familiar with, but he augments it
The Napoleonic Wars, Black Powder, 28mm This was the second game using Chris Henry’s figures this month. Usually he has a band practice on Thursdays, but his bass player is also an accountant, and January is his “busy time”. With Chris at a loose end, we grabbed this opportunity to play with his Bonaparte in
The American War of Independence, Black Powder, 28mm The first game of the year was a refight of the American War of Independence Battle of Germantown, which was fought on 4th October 1777. The refight took place in Bill Gilchrist’s garage in Livingstone, converted into a spacious wargames den. Bill and I commanded Lord Howe’s
