2021 Plan

With Tim publish Test of Resolve - Wars of the Roses and scenario booklets covering all of the battles, earlier in the year rather than later. If things open up we hope to demo the rules at shows and clubs. Play 100 games, zoom, clubs and shows Do a bit of painting and organising, but anything over and above the above would be a bonus.

How went 2020?

Not at all as planned 17 face to face games up until March After that 70 zoom games and 2 PBEM 89 was not a bad score for games played considering. The zoom games were all run by Tim and were all Wars of the Roses battles. We have developed a set of rules titled Test of Resolve - Wars of the Roses which have been in development for most of the year and are now getting close to compeltion. More to follow on the rules and associated scenarios. It has been a huge amount of fun developing them and playing many of the historical battles to playtest them. It has pretty much kept me sane this crazy year. Not much else to report. Vapnartak was a good day out and my only show of 2020. The flea market style bring and buy is much improved but for the first time ever I did not manage to get a game which was a shame. Some painting progress but that tailed off in the second half of the year. 2021 plans to follow

2020 Plan

A little late but here we go


Playing games is always the most important part of wargaming for me and the target remains 100 games.  I think I may struggle to get up to 120 of the last couple of years year but 100 would  still be good.


I am currently expectig to do 4 campains/linked battles - Jason and the Argonauts, Wars of the Roses, Barons War and Vanguard.  Also possbly War of the Triple Alliance and the Sudan in 15mm but they may end up being more focussed towards 2021.  If the Austrians get done one or two Napoleonic battles are a possibility.  Plus of course lots of one off games in as many differnt rule sets as I can manage.


I need to have another go at tidying the attic and all my wargames stufff in there - earlier attempts have improved things but much more needs to be done.  I expect to actaully get rid of one or two things as well


Painting - more specific this year - Finish Jason and his opponents (25mm) to be able to do the campaign, tidy up and base my 15mm Napoleonic Austrians, work on the 10mm WW2 Brits and try and get some more 25mm DBA armies table ready.


In terms of new places to game I will continue to be on the lookout for shows/events/clubs/etc. to go to.  One firm plan is to get to the the Society of Ancients Conference down in Oxford.


Not sure on blogging probably just the ocassional update.


Plenty to keep me occupied

How went 2019 ?

So going down my list




Played 119 miniatures games and 2 board games so very pleased with that.



Managed 5 new places including  the medieval day in Leven in January, the new Glasgow show and an ECW day at Galashiels and got to over 100 different paces gamed overall



 Lots of differnet rules systems.  Enjoyed the Battle Companies finale and other campaigns including the Wars of the Roses and 7YW sugar islands both of which are continuing into 2020. Also good to get down to Washington Wargames Club for a couple of days of Lion Rampant



 Painting went OK - still want to do more.



 Blogging was minimal



2020 targets to follow soon!

Visit to Glasgow Phoenix

I try to get over to the Phoenix club a couple of times a year to play DBA or HOTT.

On Tuesday I had 4 games of DBA against Mark.  I normally take along a historically matched pair of armies and something to take on his Wars of the Roses army.  All 25mm of course.

The first clash was Syracuse v Later Carthaginian.  Mark had the Africans bravely charging forward against their opponents some of whom had the advantage of being on a hill.  I threw a lot of sixes and blew them away in very short time.

The first game was a typical DBA line v line clash.  I tried something different for the rematch and split the Carthaginians into two groups with a gap in the centre.  I then refused the right flank made up of my Spanish auxillia and put cavalry on the right flank.  Finally I left my cavalry general in the centre.  The plan worked pretty well with my left flank winning the game helped by the general who sneaked through the centre and was able to get to the rear of the Italians.  Rolling more sixes helped.

By this stage I was quite embarrassed at my excessive rolling of 6s.  I actually changed my dice twice but it made no difference.

Mark was to have his revenge in the second round of games.  I started using Scots Common Army but although the spear held up well losing only one element the loss of my Highland Archers, Horde and Knights (on a draw v Blades) was enough. 

Using the Tudor army for the final game I tried the split army trick again massing the missiles on my left and the rest on the right.  All that firepower only managed to take out the hordes and the death of my general hastened me to a second defeat.

We each won two games so honour was satisfied on both sides.

Games played this year 113 miniatures 2 board

Systems played 36 miniatures 2 board

Blogging again

Lets see how long I can keep this going – the intention is to try and blog after every gaming session.

Had a game of Vanguard against Kev at the club, my elves against his Northern Alliance. My games are noted for extreme dice rolls but this time we both enjoyed/suffered big ups and downs.

To be fair to Kev I had the better of the luck which started with my first set of shooting against his scout – 4 hits none saved and nerve test also failed so dead.  At one stage it looked as if it was all going to be over very quickly but then the roles were revered for a while and Kev clawed his way back into contention.  It didn’t last though and I ended up victorious having won the scenario by finding  and holding on to the spy’s missing papers.

We are intending to do a 7 game Vanguard campaign next year which I am looking forward to

Games played this year 109 miniatures 2 board

Systems played 36 miniatures 2 board

What I am working on 27/09/2019

Inspired by another blog I thought that I would post a list of what I am currently working on


WW2 British            10mm        Blitzkrieg Commander
Medieval Scots         25mm       DBA
Greek ships               large         Fleet of Battle
Austrian 19C            15mm       Field of Battle
Austrian Nap            15mm       Field of Battle
Danish 19C              15mm       Field of Battle
British Nap               15mm       Field of Battle
Wars of the Roses    25mm       Field of Battle
Beastmen                 28mm       Hostile Realms
Chaos Warriors        28mm       Hostile Realms
Elf                             28mm      Hostile Realms
Men                          28mm       Hostile Realms
Jason                         25mm       Hordes of the Things
Jason's enemies        25mm       Hordes of the Things
Fantasy Viking         28mm       Of Gods and Mortals
Carthaginian             25mm       Pulse of Battle
Republican Roman   25mm       Pulse of Battle
Late Roman              25mm       Pulse of Battle
Goth                          25m          Pulse of Battle
Ghosts of Gaia          28mm       Rogue Stars
Elf                             25mm       Vanguard


I hope to game with most of these in the next 12 months