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The Stronghold Rebuilt

HOTT Matched Pairs - I took a couple of my HOTT matched pairs to the Wollongong Wargamers, and played a couple of games with Bailey. The first pair was my Australian Aborigin...
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Tim's Miniature Wargaming Blog

Warhammer Underworlds - Blocked Hex Terrain Project - Didn't do a Work-in-Progress Wednesday post this week as... well... I hadn't done any work this past week (other than finishing up the three undead for C...
4 hours ago
Craig's Wargaming Blog

Rapid fire Reloaded- a river crossing in Burma - For ANZAC day my friend Ian came down from Christchurch (3-4 hr drive) for a days gaming. We started WW2 game in the late 70s as kids using a homebrewed...
6 hours ago
STALKER7

A Sky of Stars and Sorcery - A Nightwatch Blood and Bone AAR Our Grave of the Sun campaign continues. Last session, our heroes rescued the recluse scholar, Rajul Hakim. For their brave...
6 hours ago
PAPERMAU

A Family House Miniature Papercraft - by Papermau - Download Now! - Another very simple papercraft on just one sheet, a miniature family house to decorate your bookshelf or work desk. The entire model is made up of just thr...
9 hours ago
Wargaming with Barks

Anzac Day 2024- WW1 digger - This figure is a companion piece to last year's Mike Broadbent sculpt from Slave 2 Gaming. I tried to replicate the paintjob. Here they are together: ...
1 day ago
SOUND OFFICERS CALL!

WIP Wednesday: Air Support & Rommel Forward HQs - Another week, another WIP Wednesday post! Too bad this isn't a BATREP but like the last post said, I've been busy! Track season is in full swing with...
1 day ago
Wargaming for Grown-ups

Okay for AK...47 - We played AK47 Republic (classic edition) back in January after a break of a few years. As we were likely to have an even number show for this week's gam...
1 day ago
Hippolyta's Tiny Footsteps

Copplestone Archaeologists - Ages ago, back in 2017, I painted the female archaeologists from Mark Copplestone's excellent Back of Beyond range. Now, much later, here are the male on...
1 day ago
Gaming with the Gnomies

(Risus) Be Prepared for a Talent Show - Our weekly Gamma World game continues to go strong. As episode 28 dropped last Tuesday, I have another 32 weekly write-ups in the can. We left off at ...
1 day ago
Fawcett Avenue Conscripts

30k Thousand Sons Librarian Consul - Thousand Sons Librarian Consul for GW's Horus Heresy setting. So there has been a little pause in the blog-posting, but the brushes are still moving, and ...
2 days ago
Lead Legionaries

Chopper Down...Salvage!! Post-Apoc Scenario - *One of the many 'bad guys' that showed up to attack the players -- a Machine Patrol bot*I'd been waiting for an available Sunday evening to run the...
3 days ago
Wee Blokes

MC1 Population Explosion - It may have been more than a couple of months since the last post but there has been some painting at least going on in the background. This batch are a...
3 days ago
Blood and Spectacles

Battle Report: Hostile Space- Escort to Liberty Pointe - The following is a battle report for my latest game, *Hostile Space*: *The trading contract for the Freehold of New Arcadia will expire and come up f...
3 days ago
Dispatches from the Front

The Sword and the Flame - Butiwanto Desert Action! - The never ending search for the perfect set of rules continues. This time Kevin, Mike and I tried out *The Sword and the Flame.* The rules have be...
4 days ago
Lone Warrior Blog | Official Blog of the Solo Wargamers Association

Issue 226 Preview - Subscribers have already received their copies of issue 226. Not a subscriber? Here’s what you missed: Want to subscribe? Click here for details!
4 days ago
BigLee's Miniature Adventures

A Changing Hobby? Small Skirmish Games vs Big Battles - Is the Tabletop Wargaming Hobby shifting away from Big Battles towards small skirmish games? This subject arose during last week's SALUTE 51 and was even...
4 days ago
Dust, Tears & Dice

FootSore Muslim Light Cavalry - Outremer. - Still in the Levant and I finished a another group of light cavalry for the forces of Saladin armed with spear and bow they could be a real handful on th...
4 days ago
Delta Vector

The New Man Cave + Terrain Musings - *If the blog seems a bit dead,* it is a combination of (a) school busyness (b) moving house and (c) Google's 2FA (ok, the latter seems a bit lame but it ...
4 days ago
The Man Cave

ShireCon 24 - While lamenting the loss of our No 1 Wargaming apprentice (who regularly kicks our arses on the table, just to show what fantastic instructors we are), S...
5 days ago
Herkybirds nest

A return to France - Today we decided, well, I did, that we would return to What a Tanker for a couple of games, Oathmark is on the back burner for a short while! Lawrence l...
5 days ago
Into the Maelstorm

The droid factory - Battle for the heart of Geonosis! After their successful landings on the red planet, the forces of the Republic are again on the offensive, assaulting ...
5 days ago
Steve's Random Musings on Wargaming and other stuff...

I have been to... HMS Warrior - Time for another update.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Time to take advantage of my yearly dockyard ticket, this time with a visit to HMS Warrior...
5 days ago
Bob's Miniature Wargaming Blog

Some 28mm terrain - I noticed I was a bit short on interior terrain when I laid out the Joker's lair awhile back. Specifically, I had no beds and few tables. After looking o...
5 days ago
Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog

Braunstein Play is Fundamental to D&D - Braunstein has been framed as being an intermediary form in the evolution of wargame to roleplaying game. I have demonstrated that Braunstein play is integ...
6 days ago
History in 1/72

New Nassau Infantry from Frank - Our Hobbymate Thomas Mischak asked Frank to sculpt him some Nassau Grenadiers for his Waterloo project. These figures will be available from Hagen soon...
6 days ago
Mini Metal Mayhem

AK-47 Republic Checkpoint Competition - part 3 (completion) - At last, the finished checkpoint! Everything came together more or less as I hoped. It's got a few differences from the original plan, mainly due to me ...
1 week ago
THE CORVUS CLUSTER

Ork attacks test Hegira defenses - IMPERIAL VOXCAST (6 247 744.M41)—The past six weeks have seen a renewal of ork aggression against the beleaguered defenses of Hegira, a mining moon in the ...
1 week ago
Battlefields and Warriors

One Hour Wargames in 1809 - Having got my 1809 project to a point where a six unit French force and a four unit Austrian force now sit fully painted in their respective barracks, I...
1 week ago
Little Wargaming Worlds

Fyndoria Games at Salute 51 - Fyndoria Games went to Salute 51 this year and we put on a game of The Last Drifters, and the game we put on was a destruction derby. Salute this year look...
1 week ago
Toy Soldiers and Dining Room Battles

Late German World War II Forces in 15 mm - *The Panzerkampfwagen VI; the infamous Tiger Tank.* *While I am finishing up some projects that I am not quite ready to post yet, I thought I would share...
1 week ago
Rabbits In My Basement

The Painter - Pykaso was feeling pleased and enjoying himself immensely. The Royal Arts Festival at the Prince Albyrt Museum was going well. Free food and wine and the...
1 week ago
Association - Les Riflemen

1758 - La cascade rouge - The red waterfall - *Ce matin, quelques Iroquois ont été aperçus à la cascade, non loin de notre village.This morning, some Iroquois were seen at the waterfall, not far f...
1 week ago
Move to Contact

The Old World - Dark Elves - Hot on the heels of the High Elves, their black-hearted kin... and the second army for my planned TOW narrative campaign. The army was bought as two job ...
2 weeks ago
20mm and then some....

Well, isn't this fun - After much, much contemplation I finally gave in and decided to purchase 2 15mm painted armies for 1945. I bought a very nicely painted German one and h...
2 weeks ago
Irishserb's Miniatures Adventure

Not Quite Back Yet - My work crazyness finally ended mid week, though it could pick up for four weeks at any moment. Things had been busy since last October and stepped up a...
3 weeks ago
Devon Wargames Group

Sikh Wars - Général d'Armée 2 - Mr Steve dug out his Sikh Wars collection this week to entertain us with a game of the new Général d'Armée 2, (GDA 2) the follow up to the successful GDA...
3 weeks ago
Lead Addict

It's Been Over 5 Years! - Well fellow Addicts, it's been over 5 years since my last post. January of 2019. How time flies. I haven't stopped or gone away for that matter. I just ...
4 weeks ago
Baron's Blog

March to Victory - the report - This was our third time hosting March to Victory. Notice how there is no"con" in the name? The focus on “games only” resulted in a more intimate setti...
4 weeks ago
Mezmaron's Lair

Star Wars Shatterpoint News from Adepticon: Updates from Atomic Mass Games - Atomic Mass Games recently unveiled a treasure trove of upcoming Star Wars: Shatterpoint products at Adepticon; below are some of the key updates as well a...
4 weeks ago
Tiny Wars Played Indoors

Cacabelos, Spain, January 3, 1809 - Alan and I took a break from the Spanish/French scenarios that our friend Brian North has been cranking out these days to try adapting the Cacabelos scen...
5 weeks ago
Dad's Guys

Back At It - Well after a couple of years ... I'm back at it. In case anyone still reads blogs here's an update. I guess I just got burned out. That's how it is with m...
1 month ago
Jay's Wargaming Madness

Warhammer Old World: Skaven Expansion - Basing is slow going in the middle of High School Volleyball season, but I am stealing time here and there to get units completed. I have sooooo much stil...
1 month ago
wargamesdiary | Just another WordPress.com site

War hammer 40k - Links space marines took on the Tyranids. The hard fought battle involved close combat against huge monsters and a dreadnought. Eventually to be space mari...
1 month ago
Joy and Forgetfulness

Battlemasters with Kinchlets - *"Pay attention Sir Harry, the Hun is here, here and here." - LadyBaby* Finished up a practice game of the old MB Games/Citadel miniatures game Battlemast...
2 months ago
The REALM of JiNNai

[PULP ALLEY Battle Report] Faith versus Machine - Today I played a Pulp Alley game with some of my 54mm miniatures I painted. I was the Brotherhood and Capitol Heroes player while my friend was the Lady ...
2 months ago
Converj - David's Blog

Fuentes de Onoro - This weekend it was time for the 4th Rose Hill Wargaming Group annual wargame, and our 2nd in the Peninsular. We had over 2000 20mm figures and a play...
2 months ago
Band of Wargame Brothers

Round three!! Assyrians and Elamites! - So the Round three was fought out just after Chrristmas. In our first game my Elamites had been victorious. In the rematch Ross' Assyrians had smashed my ...
2 months ago
sediment's wargame blog

Battle of Montgisard 1177 Lance and Longbow Game Vapnartak 2024 - It was Will McNally's turn to organize the Lance and Longbow Society participation game at Vapnartak 2024. As usual for Will, he opted for 20mm/1/72nd ...
2 months ago
Campaigns in Miniature

The Road to Vienna - The traditional Sunday of Tundra Con "big battalions" game was held Jan. 7th at the Garden Hilton in Oshkosh, WI. Rules are Batailles de Ancien Regime ...
2 months ago
Boneheadz Command Center

Hot Wheels Road Wars Liberty Base! - If this isn't the coolest kids toy I don't know what is. Released in the mid 90's along with a whole set of vehicles this thing cost $60 brand new. I wa...
3 months ago
Ambushed in the Alley

100 Hours War Scenario - Having picked up a Helion title on this conflict, I have come up with my own Check Your 6! scenario, entitled "Soto Gets Three." It has not been playtested...
4 months ago
Colgar6 and the Infinite Legion of Toy Soldiers

Zomtober 2023, Week 5 - *<== Go here for Week 4* Introduction It's the last week of Zomtober, at least for 2023. As is required by the rules of that competition, I've completed...
5 months ago
Dale's Wargames

Remote Game of Age of Penda - Revisiting My *Age of Penda* Review I used to review rules with giving a playtest, simply analyzing the rules on paper. That was a big mistake when I rate...
6 months ago
Super Galactic Dreadnought

A different kind of convention (for me anyway) - Earlier this month, my wife and I went to our first ever science fiction convention: ArmadilloCon here in the Austin area. My wife did confess that at f...
7 months ago
Modhail's Meanderings

This could be the beginning of something great... - So, last Friday, after half a year of calendar conflicts, we finally had our first session of Traveller after our character creation session in December...
9 months ago
Tales from the Cantwara sector

Ambuscade in Repair Bay Astor - Ambuscade in Repair Bay Astor Clearing the Docking Bay access port, the crew of the Belgrave dived deeper into the guts of the space hulk. An eery silenc...
11 months ago
Scrum in Miniature

Scrum Con IV: In Your Face! - The Second Saturday Scrum Club rejoined the fray on April 8, organizing and hosting *Scrum Con IV* in Silver Spring, Maryland. Although we ran a surpris...
1 year ago
The Dark Prophet Chronicles

Miniature Spotlight: Rockgut Troggoths with Rock Axe - A fifth Rockgut Troggoth has joined the Troggherd and is ready for battle:
1 year ago
Dougie's Wargaming Blog

28mm Empress Cold War SAS and Update - This is just a quick update as I haven't posted anything for a little while because of working on my YouTube channel Dougie's Wargaming Blog Show Anyhow...
1 year ago
Controlled Chaos Gaming Blog

Directional Dice - I'm back to working on the 2nd edition of Mythic Chronicle, and with that comes a whole host of system revisions. In 1st edition I used a mechanic called...
1 year ago
It's 500 Miles to the German Border! - A Twilight 2000 miniature wargaming blog

A Short Post this Time - Not much to report, especially since I am hellaciously busy these days. But I have not forgotten about this blog, even if I post here infrequently. I wil...
2 years ago
Rifles and Muskets

Time for some Blog Necromancy - I´ve been neglecting this blog again... time to attempt to raise it from the dead again. The lure of social media has been strong and so I´ve been posti...
2 years ago
Double Six

2021 - So we are coming to the end of 2021 and another update is due. So 2021 was almost a repeat of 2020. Not quite but almost. We had a slight relaxing towa...
2 years ago
Buck's Blog

Wars of Ozz Game Last Weekend - I received an Email recently from Les, who is a fan of Combat Patrol(R) that he was going to be in Florida near where I live for a few days. We took the op...
2 years ago
SmallScaleOperations - Wargaming Moderns, Historical and Sci-Fi with 15mm, 20mm and 28mm Miniatures

Bretonnians for Age Of Sigmar -
2 years ago
LZ Bravo

Cherry Blossoms and Zombies! - *Cherry blossoms and zombies* "Is everyone alright?" “Amy?” "The Pilot didn't make it. A tree branch came thru the cockpit." "Damn. Amy, Doug, Wanda, take ...
2 years ago
The Expanse

Scenario 1 : Hit and Miss (110/2350) - *Background :* One of MKM's favorite pastimes, is trying to find leverage on Chrisjen Avasarala, which seems an easier way to deliver her the fatal blow...
2 years ago
Nate Miller's Tabletop Games

Stargrave "Misery Cluster Campaign" Mission 01: Botched Deal at Lonely Jack's - Despite being situated smack dab in the middle of the galaxy at the crossroads of numerous trade lanes the Misery Cluster was considered a bit of a backw...
2 years ago
The Dark Templar

Confronting The Pile Of Shame - When I heard that Salute was on for November this year, I got very excited… no seriously, like so over-the-top excited I nearly had a fit. My first thou...
3 years ago
Winter of '79

Terrain & Tokens - A small parcel of OO scatter terrain purchased on eBay arrived this morning from Pete at *Model Railway Scenes*. The casting/printing is impressive. ver...
3 years ago
Anatoli's Game Room

New site with much improved blog - please have a look - Friends, after several days of hard work I'm happy to present to you my new site. After 10 years with blogspot I have moved my online hobby operation to a ...
3 years ago
BIG Force on Force

Update on recent games (plus Force on Force is back!) - Well, it has been a long-time since I have updated this blog. What reminded me to update is we recently played a game of Force on Force. We played the intr...
3 years ago
Five Leagues In Glorantha

The Sunken Temple, Part 2 - OK, so when I played The Sunken Temple, I did the whole thing in one go. I split the blog entries up for ease of use, but somehow I never got around to doi...
3 years ago
Xin's Lair

My first game of Oathmark - I've had these rules for a few weeks now, but didn't get around to getting in a game till last night. My friend Lou came over and we took the rules out ...
3 years ago
The Miniatures Man

Aerosan OSGA 6 - More stuff for Whiteout, this time 2 Aerosans from Baker Company. In Whiteout you can have Sno-Cats as equipment or find them as terrain-encounters. My ta...
3 years ago
Umtali Station

Game 9: Peak 1980’s - This was the big confrontation: Aliens, Predators, Terminators and Colonial Marines all converging in a fight for survival. The Terminators came on, shot a...
4 years ago
Skill Level 0

CSS Polk from Brown Water Navy - Another model that was recently added to my collection was the Confederate protected gunboat "General Polk" done by Brown Water Navy. Contrary to most of ...
4 years ago
Dinah Cat of Danger

Power Legion - Watchmen - This is a follow on to the Minutemen post and provides Power Legion statistics for their successor team the Watchmen. Like the Minutemen most of the team ...
6 years ago
preacher by day...mild mannered wargamer by night

One of Our Inspectors is Missing - a Pulp Alley day - *Nobody likes an Inspector-General. Snooping, officious pedants from the central Imperium. Sniffing out the shadowy alliances and difficult compromises tha...
6 years ago
Little Wars VA

Fate of Konor: Tau vs. Black Legion - 40k 8th edition: the game bringing many old hands out of the woodwork for the first time in many years. Why? Probably for the following reasons: 1....
6 years ago
Dead Dick's Tavern and Temporary Lodging

Forgotten Heroes: The Super Mission Force Builds - As I said a few posts back, I first encountered the Liberty Legion in an adventure for TSR’s Marvel Super Heroes RPG that was published in Dragon magazine ...
6 years ago
Gaming Ballistic

GURPS Day Summary Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2016 - Thursday is GURPSDay, and I need more sleep. Things hum along in the background on the DFRPG and other projects, according to small birds and other things...
7 years ago
Chicago Skirmish Wargames

We’re Back, Baby! - Well, it's been a whole year away, but click here for the new and improved Chicago Skirmish Wargames Blog! Josh has been hard at work bringing a new look an...
7 years ago
Hook Island Gaming

First impressions: Cuba Libre - I’ve not been particularly busy on the miniatures side of things lately – since my spare time is still very limited nowadays, I’ve just not been able to ge...
7 years ago
This War without an Enemy

Battlegroup: Fall of the Reich (24/07/2016 – Tom) - The scenario was adapted from the “Fall of the Reich” campaign scenario, “Fall of Seelow” but with alternative forces and set a bit further south and east ...
7 years ago
| Historical and Sci Fi Miniatures Gaming

SAGA Tournament at Advance the Colors 2016 - Jeff Fletcher and I (Steve Phallen) will be hosting a SAGA tournament at Advance the Colors in Springfield, Ohio on Saturday, October 1, 2016. The tournam...
7 years ago
Land War in Asia

Sky Pirates of Venus - Teaser - Sky Pirates have been the scourge of the Worm Empire of Venus for years, and the Great Worm has had enough! He sends a team of four crack worm commandos to...
7 years ago
Hotel Zugando

Force on Force AAR: Closing Up Shop - Vlad and I tackled one of the scenarios from the *Day of the Rangers *book, entitled 'Closing up Shop'. This is a scenario for Somalia 1993 but is transpos...
8 years ago
Little Nicky's Gameroom

All Play and No Work for February - February has been a rather quiet month for my blog. I have actually played a lot of games, but haven't really taken any pictures as it has primarily been ...
8 years ago
The Ukrovian Civil War

Game 7 - The Battle of Tabrim - After Action Report - Rumours of a rebel attack on the Government "facility" at Tabrim were rife, ever since the small coastal village was fenced off and the villagers ejected...
8 years ago
CailusWargaming

Force on Force: Sniper Hunt AAR - A spare Sunday morning saw a good opportunity for a game at my brother's place. I've been itching to use my .50 cal sniper team since I painted them a whil...
8 years ago
Wargamer's Cleavage

Dead Man’s Hand cowboys - Fondly remembering the skirmish action days of Necromunda, the game that started me wargaming, I decided to give the well-regarded cinematic western shoot-...
10 years ago

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