Outback! – exploration in Australia (I)
. Adventures in Exploring Australia A variant for Studio Tomahawk’s Congo rules. Wargames to my mind don’t normally include ‘exploration’ game themes however with the advent of Studio Tomahawk’s...
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. Adventures in Exploring Australia A variant for Studio Tomahawk’s Congo rules. In the last post we looked at the factions that I linked closely with the original game factions. In this post we’re...
View ArticleFrontier Warfare in Van Dieman’s Land
Here is an excellent article on conflict in Tasmania by John Connor, the author of Australian Frontier Wars. His military history focus makes for very interesting reading on conflict in Van Dieman’s...
View ArticleAustralian Frontier Wars – TMWWBK
Mm. As mentioned in a previous post the Osprey rules, The Men Who Would Be Kings, are an excellent contender for gaming this period. These rules are more toward the ‘hollywood’ end of the spectrum...
View ArticleDeath in the Dry Continent
a variant for Chris Peers’ Death in the Dark Continent rules for Australian Frontier Warfare. . Death in the Dark Continent, the well regarded big battle colonial rules re-released by Northstar...
View ArticleResistance! – a campaign for the Frontier Wars
. . The purpose of this campaign is to portray a hypothetical series of battles where one side is the colonial ‘invader’ who wishes to occupy the land of traditional land holding natives ie in this...
View ArticleAustralian Frontier War – Gum Trees & Wattle Trees
. . . Gumtrees The humble and ever present Eucalyptus tree in Australia, colloquially known as the Gum Tree for the gum (sap) that exudes from it when the bark is broken. This is a type of ‘bush glue’...
View ArticleArmed Settlers for AFW
An integral part of Frontier Wars clashes, and many other similar soldier-settler periods is including armed civilians. The period I’m looking at is around the napoleonic era so suitably clothed...
View ArticleWindhoek-German South West Africa, 1914-15
STRATEGY AND TACTICS MAGAZINE GAME – #313 Background In the early twentieth century in the dry dusty south western corner of Africa, the attention of two of the great colonial powers of the world...
View ArticleSharp Practice! – Australian Frontier Wars
Gents, In the latest issue of Wargames Illustrated there is an article on the Encounter at Pinjarra, an engagement fought south of Perth, October 1834. Along with that article there is...
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The Great Paraguayan War : 1864-70
Note – all images used in this post from Perry Miniatures . The Great Paraguayan War, or War of the Triple Alliance was a mid 19th century conflict fought in South America. It pitted Paraguay against...
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Battle of El Akerish, 1875
…and so 2020 kicks off with a return to the Southern-Sudan for our first game. We wanted to lean into something fast and furious and so a trip to the Abyssinian (Ethiopian) border using The Men Who...
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Re-imagining Table Battles…part I
Table Battles -a boardgame or miniatures game? Does it matter…is it both? Table battles Table Battles by Hollandspiele is one of the most innovative small footprint wargames to come out for a...
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Re-imagining Table Battles…part II
Table Battles In the first part of Reimagining Table Battles we discussed some aspects of the game and how we might make the leap from a fairly abstract table game to something with a bit more meat...
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Men of Sparta…
So much has been written about the men in red….what else is there to say. I’ve long had a fascination of the struggle between Athens and Sparta and hoplite warfare in general – from the time of the...
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Battle of Phlius, summer, 427BC
Northern Peloponnese, Phlius, summer, 427BC. A Spartan raiding force moved north to attack an Athenian raiding force moving inland from the Epidauran coast through the Argolid. Word from a spy in...
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Hoplites!!
. As mentioned in my previous post, a long enduring interest for me has been warfare in Ancient Greece. For wargamers it has a definite allure though at a glance it may appear to be bland…hoplites,...
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Hoplites (II) – Getting them painted
So big talk in the last post about get hundreds of hoplites painted and building big ‘ol hoplite forces for Classical Greece. To do this will require some streamlining and focus on ‘the big...
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Sons of Sparta…
. We looked at painting masses of figures in the last post…but this project is not only about ‘the big battle’. The Greek Wars, and the Peloponnesian War specifically, involved far more clashes...
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Hoplites – Basing…the good, the easy, the ugly…
. . In the last two posts I talked about my plans for building a small skirmish force and a large unit ‘based’ force for the hoplite period and how to get the numbers of figures required ‘on table’....
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