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  1. La Haye Sainte (Light) – 15mm Black Powder Napoleonics anniversary game

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    June 19, 2017 by wargamerchris

    This is of course the 202d anniversary of the battles in Belgium which finally put told to the career of …
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  2. 15mm Napoleonics – Vimeiro 21 Aug 1808

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    June 18, 2017 by wargamerchris

    Vimeiro was our first Penninsular game.  We’ve collected more than 10K Napoleonics over the years – starting with Heritage Napoleonettes …
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  3. Waterloo Travelogue

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    June 17, 2017 by wargamerchris

    A bit of a diversion from my normal topics, as an amateur military historian and officer, I was pretty pleased …
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  4. 15mm Sci Fi: 5150 Battalion Commander

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    June 17, 2017 by wargamerchris

    15mm Sci fi started for us the way many things do – a small bag of figures that came with …
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  5. 28mm VSF: Professor Johnstone I Presume….

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    June 16, 2017 by wargamerchris

    I’ve loved 25/28mm Victorian Science Fiction since my youth – growing up around GDW and the initial development of Space …
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  6. 15mm Potemkin Russian Army – 1790’s

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    June 16, 2017 by wargamerchris

    About ten months ago my oldest son began showing me posts on the Polish Uprisings of 1792 and 1794 and …
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  7. 20mm WW2 – Serolago Aegean Island Assault Game

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    June 12, 2017 by wargamerchris

    Looking backward to some of my more popular convention games, this is Serolago (don’t bother googling – it’s fictitious).  Going …
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  8. 15mm Jacobite Rebellion battle report – battle at the mill

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    June 11, 2017 by wargamerchris

    We recently played our second Black Powder Jacobite game in 15mm. The government forces were defending a village with a …
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  9. 25mm Star Wars Rogue One – Jedha game

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    June 8, 2017 by wargamerchris

    The scenario had bands of rebels, imperials, and fringers with different objectives mixing it up.  All sought Khyber crystals the …
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  10. Perry Miniatures Travel Battle on the Strait of Bonifacio

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    June 8, 2017 by wargamerchris

      My son and I took travel battle along on our vacation/ cruise to Europe. Fittingly our first day at …
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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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