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Donnybrook.. no, we didn't write this review!
White Death GNW Donnybrook at York in 2015Sometimes life is just nice to you. When I opened Wargames Illustrated issue 359 an article about Donnybrook caught my eye... Why I Love Donnybrook! well, I...
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Champions of Pike & Shot 1: Mark Shearwood
Siege of Athlone 1691 - wonderful solo effort by MarkI decided to highlight the work of fellow gamers who I feel make a significant contribution to the popularity of the period 1660-1720. Mark...
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Solidifying the Ghost Army Part 7: Wounded Sentinels
The wounded sentinels in the raw stateThe sentinels completedAlthough the Ghost Army force has only four units each with two characters attached I added two extra demi-units in order to make the...
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Breaking the surface
The yin and yang of constant travel - herbal tea and cakesNo, I have not sunk to the bottom of the sea, missing without trace. I am acutely aware of my lack of blog output over the last week+....
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See you at Crisis 2017! - Warfare discount offer for the show
Our intense GNW struggle at Crisis in 2014 or 2015Toggy, Gwen and I look forward to our wonderful long weekend in Antwerp! This year we hear that a very large game featuring thousands (yes that is no...
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One afternoon in Murcia....
Two sessions work here I am way behind. I am so desperate to catch up that I decided to step up to the challenges of modern international travel. I carried a couple of dozen small bottles of liquid...
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Ultimately a productive week..
Another batch of Haitians completedIt didn't start well with three of my holiday days being taken up with work and I thought my painting plan would go to wrack and ruin. Nevertheless, focus is the...
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Report from the Front
Action during the battle to capture Tortuga from Governor du CasseI am just back from our latest Weekender epic continuing the campaign to control Britain and its associated colonial territories in...
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Where do the forces ideas come from? Part 1
Jacobite Foot Guards and Grand Prior's Regiments - stalwarts of King James's Irish ArmyOur Battle for Britain campaign has been running for a year now and in campaign terms we have come two years from...
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Fly Paper - The attack at la rivière du miel, November 1693
The valley of the Honey River, San DominiqueOur campaign continues to expand in the Caribees. A plot hatched in the rum taverns of the Antilles and Jamaica culminated in a diversionary raid on the...
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Guest post: GNW Swedes by Don Crane
The Brigade in all its gloryThe Blog has featured the work of several painters over the years and I always enjoy seeing how painters and gamers create and interpret figures and unit construction.I...
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Les Français arrivent! French troops at Crisis 2018!
French Dragoons both mounted and dismounted supported by a mortarI had to make a choice - Blog or paint. I decided in the interest of having things to blog about, I should paint!Crisis is approaching...
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At last - painted Russian mounted Dragoons
These are masters. I had none of the new horses to hand but this shows how well they sit on the existing horse types.I have painted ix troopers which com in two different packs of three. They are...
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Some artillery vignettes
I have been working on some artillery vignettes recently and have only just gotten round to photographing them for the blog.Although we do not have specifically French gunners yet I shaved off the...
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New Look for the LoA Blog
Clarence Harrison - I don't know how many folks noticed, but the old blog template has been having issues with some of it's features. The template used to create the blog was no longer being updated...
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Poltava Part 1 - taster of an epic
This game was a year in the making and is the result of the hard work of Jon and Diane Sutherland who created it as a commission for a private collector.I have been intimately involved with the...
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League of Augsburg game Crisis 2017
We had decided well in advance that our Crisis game for 2017 would be modest in size but pretty. There was no need to try and take a massive game by car to Antwerp as we already knew that Jon...
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Poltava part 2 - the wargame
A late 'battle shot' with the Swedes through the redoubt lineJon is very experienced at running large games as he owned and managed a wargaming centre on Crete for several years.The Swedes columns...
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Lots of Dragoons
Painted as Hanoverian Dragoons - WLOA58 and WLOA60I have been slow off the mark painting and basing my dragoons but the new codes have sold very well so far despite having no oxygen of...
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Beneath the Lily Banners: The War of Three Kings
Don't mind me, I'll just leave this here...More soon...
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