Monthly Archives: May 2020

  1. Rangers of Shadowdeep – Mission 2 – The Trees….

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    May 19, 2020 by wargamerchris

    In February, before all the lockdown stuff started, I set up the small gaming table to run Mission 2 from …
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  2. Solo wargaming: Storm of Steel Wargaming – highly recommended

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    May 19, 2020 by wargamerchris

    While we’ve each been finding our own paths through this lockdown period, one of the things I have been grateful …
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    Category: 15mm Terrain, 15mm WW2, flames of war, Solo Wargaming | Tags: , , , , , ,

  3. Four more 15mm SYW French Regiments

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    May 19, 2020 by wargamerchris

    Just a quick self-motivational post.  As I prepared for the Fortress Isle game, I began to get a War of …
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    Category: 15mm Seven Years War SYW, HMGS Little Wars, Uncategorized | Tags: , ,

  4. 15mm Louisiana Zouaves – a love for Stone Mountain minis, ACW, and Johnny Reb when I was younger. Blame the guys on Little Wars TV!

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    May 19, 2020 by wargamerchris

    One of the things which I have really enjoyed since the fall has been the content on Little Wars TV …
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  5. Across a fire swept hell – 15mm WW2 Derna Airfield game

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    May 19, 2020 by wargamerchris

    During our time inside, I’ve fallen into a desire to get back to some games that I haven’t had time …
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    Category: 15mm Terrain, 15mm WW2, Command Decision: Test of Battle, flames of war | Tags: , , , , ,

Small Soldiers

I’m a father, soldier, wargamer and traveler. This site is for my kids and to share my work over half a lifetime musing on the history of warriors and the portrayal of their efforts in miniature.  I’ve never really known why I do this

Wargame Rules

Rules I’m gaming with now:

Lions Rampant/ Dragons Rampant
Black Powder
Age of Eagles/ Age of Valor/ Fire and Fury
Force on Force/ Ambush Alley/ Ambush Z!
Hail Caesar
Command Decision: Test of Battle
Battles for Empire 2
LOTR
Pride of Lions
The Sword and the Flame

Rules I’m Considering:

Sword and Spear/ Sword and Spear Fantasy
Regimental Fire and Fury
Open Combat
Chain of Command
Sharpe Practice 2
Wilderness Wars
Test of Honour
Field of Battle
Pike and Shotte (Warlord)
General de Armee (TFL)
Flames of War – Vietnamese/ WW2

Rules I still need to find to make my life better:

15mm Napoleonic mass battles rules (holy grail)
15mm War of the Spanish Succession mass battle rules
15mm Zombie mass battle rules

Blogroll:

Command Decision Test of Battle Forum:

http://www.testofbattle.com/phpBB2/

Din of Battle:

http://dinofbattle.blogspot.com/

Henry Hyde’s Site:

http://henrys-wargaming.co.uk

Dan Mersey – author of a couple of rules sets we like:

/http://merseybooks.blogspot.co.uk/

Miniature Addiction:

http://miniatureaddiction.info/

Wasatch Front HMGS (Journals):

http://www.wfhgs.com

Bartertown:

http://www.bartertown.com/trading/

Big Force on Force (Great modern gaming)

https://bigfof.blogspot.com

Last Stand Dan:

http://laststanddan.blogspot.com/

 

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