While repacking my SYW armies, I was reminded that I still have not done the guns for a number of my armies! I had painted the crews years ago, but just never…
ESR – Battle of Brienne, January 1814 (Part 2)
We continued playing the Battle of Brienne (France 1814) using the “Et Sans Resultat” rules and scenario. See our earlier report for details on the first part of this game. When we finished the…
Can’t See the Forest For the Trees, Part V
You cannot do miniature gaming without having some trees to place on your terrain. I have covered most of what I need for 15 and 28mm in my collection. One of the…
ESR – Battle of Brienne, January 1814 (Part 1).
We played the Battle of Brienne (29 January 1814) using the Napoleonic rules, Et Sans Resultat (ESR)Version 3. The game required two sessions to complete; this report is Part 1. Our scenario was drawn…
Peter Pig 15mm Turret Bunkers
I recently went online to the Peter Pig catalog to fill in some holes in my WWII collection. With the holidays sales going on and the great USD/GBP exchange rate, it was…
Gajo Cossacks in 15mm
I have slowly been going though my miniature collection to streamline my storage. I am also trying to fill in holes in each collection and doing minor corrections to paint jobs where…
FOW – Rocking the Kasbah, November 1942
We continued our Morocco-Tunisia theme by playing the final assault on the Kasbah at Mehdia, Morocco. According to Rick Atkinson’s “An Army at Dawn,” the “Kasbah” was a 16th Century fort that…
Gale Force Nine 9 – 15mm Backyards
One of the new Battlefront new releases for November was the re-release of the backyard terrain set. I did not get any of these when they first came out and regretted it….
There be Rhinos…
So, took another big project painting break to work on some easy projects to get my motivation going again. The next on the hit train was some 28mm Rhino miniatures I picked…
Micro Armor Test Play – 1943 Armor Clash
It was time for WWII Tuesday and I decided it would be nice to shift back to ground warfare and try out another micro armor test play. This time, I decided to…