Muskets & Tomahawks

The French & Indian War, Muskets & Tomahawks, 28mm One of the problems with gaming at a club – in this case the Orkney Wargames Club – is that you have to deal with other people, whose grasp of your gaming needs might be wanting. The club meets every Thursday in the St. Magnus Centre,

The French & Indian Wars, Muskets & Tomahawks, 15mm I found myself at a loose end it the Edinburgh club this week, but fortunately I was invited to take part in this little French & Indian Wars game, run by club grognard Jack Glanville. there were five players in all – Jack both umpired and

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