A Wargames Report – Canucks and SS mix it up in Normandy
My son John, whose painting work has been featured here earlier this month, wanted to see all of Dad’s 15mm WW2 miniatures collection on the table. Dad thought a lot […]
Battle Report – American Civil War Game
One of my Christmas presents to myself was the set of American Civil War miniatures rules, They Couldn’t Hit an Elephant, published by Too Fat Lardies. Like other TFL systems, […]
Minions of the Molemen – A Rugged Adventure
My wargaming chums in SW Ontario (lads, it grieves me to leave ye!) love a subgenre of wargaming called “pulp”. Pulp games are based on the comics and penny novels […]
Battle at the Crossroads – A Saturday Night Skirmish
A Saturday night pickup game this last weekend started comically as we waiting outside someone’s condo, not knowing our supposed host was spending the day in Toronto. We finally got […]
Games at Hot Lead
One of the fringe benefits of Easter being early this year was that it allowed me some time to go to Hot Lead, Southern Ontario’s gem among miniature gaming conventions. […]
White Death in Southern Slovenia, 1943 – a Partisan Warfare Game Report
Saturday night my mates in Stratford, ON, put on another game from the crazed imagination of Dan Hutter in James Manto’s Basement O’Rabbits. The scenario was an episode in the […]
French IndoChina War 1952 – A Skirmish Game Report
In the last days of December, a group of questionable characters gathered in scenic West Lorne, in the heart of SW Ontario, for another Ricon, a seasonal gathering of wargamers. […]
Robot Rampage Paralyzes Pottersville, PA – OR – A 1930s Pulp Game Report
As part of our games day at the church last Saturday, a semi-regular event which the players have dubbed “AngliCONs”, we fought a massive and very strange pulp game which […]
Lard Coffins, or Walter Gets His Wings
Last Saturday saw another gathering in my church hall for another gaming day, a semi-reglar series of events christened by the participants as “AngliCONs”. For Anglicon III, Keith Burnett, one […]
Sevastapol Skirmish – A Wargames Report
Saturday, July 21st we had another go at the Troops, Weapons and Tactics (TW&T) skirmish rules by Too Fat Lardies. I acted as referee, and chose a Russian Front battle […]