Musings from the Gateway
……or ‘not’ done it again is more accurate. Another year of blog silence. Maybe this year I’ll do better. 2024 was a funny old year. Although I played plenty of wargames, the ‘plan’ went south along with my painting mojo. … Read More »
Needless to say, I got side tracked away from my intention to work on the Napoleonic stuff, this time though for a very practical reason. If I can get some of the Saga Ancients stuff done by mid March, it … Read More »
The two deadlines I have for May are to paint a six point ‘Age of Alexander’ Saga army and to complete a regiment of shiny French Napoleonic cavalry and a brigade of shiny Westphalian Napoleonic infantry. I’ve assembled most of … Read More »
I’m supposed to be playing an Ancients Saga game in May against Pemps’ Hoplite army. I’m going for a Persian or Indian army but, I don’t have the figures and I really don’t want to buy anything new. So, I’ll … Read More »
I hosted a couple of games at the weekend – the first of 2024. On Friday, Pemps travelled down from darkest Norfolk for a very enjoyable 15mm, post D-Day, WWII game. This was our first game using the Battlegroup rules … Read More »
The previous post was a list of all the irons I currently have in the fire or, to be more precise, the irons I can remember that I have in the fire. There are to many. If I’m to keep … Read More »
I’ll drop this table in here for the time being and update it over the next couple of days. It’s already painfully clear to me that I have too many irons in the fire…….and I don’t think I’ve included everything! … Read More »
It occurs to me that 2023 slowed down considerably in the second half of the year. Not so much to report, but here goes……. July proved to be very interesting as I had a chance to travel down the River … Read More »
I promised Andy that I’d post something before the second anniversary of having not posted anything – this is primarily because he threatened to post something on here himself which I’d find less than complementary. I’m afraid to say that … Read More »
Three weeks into the challenge and an update is needed. Finished last week, three WWII German army units to add to the 400 point army I ‘finished’ in 2020/21. We’re using Rapid Fire rules and enjoyed them so much we … Read More »