Nigel very kindly hosted us today for a 15mm game of General D'Armee. The scenario was kept small with a simple objective of capture the bridge for both sides. I was using my British with Ian as my Prussian allies, meaning that Nigel was in control of the French. Deployment was simple with no side out scouting the other.
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The adventures of a wargames butterfly.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Capture the Bridge: 15mm General D'Armee v2.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Old School Goblin Goodies
With a game against my friend Chris coming up next week I felt it was time to add a few more figures to my goblin army. We have settled on the 'Warlords of Erehwon (WoE)' as our set of rules and we have both been busy (in our slow way) adding to our 'Old School' armies. Chris is collecting very early slotta based Orcs (amongst other things) whilst my preference is for pre slotta figures and I am happily collecting dwarves and elves as well as my goblins. I just wish I could paint them as fast as I can buy them.
Anyone recognise this guy? This is Mund the Troll (in my little world). Back in my youth I had this exact same figure, a small troll from Heritage I believe. I have tried to paint him in the same colours that I painted the original back in the 70's. He was called Herman back then.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
General D'Armee v2, Battle for the Crossroads.
As we are still getting used to the rules we kept today's game quite small, just a few brigades per side. The scenario was also kept simple; a battle for a centrally placed crossroads. Ian took control of the French and Charlie and I were commanding the British.
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
15mm General D'Armee.
A couple of weeks back Ian and Nigel had their first game of General D'Armee v2 for a while (I was ill with a cold at the time). Today Charlie and myself joined them for a game down in Nigel's cellar which makes an excellent gaming venue. Nigel has been busy painting up Prussians so it was no surprise when some of them made an appearance on the table. Our main objective of this game was for all of us to gain a better understanding of the rules.
Nigel had created a scenario loosely based on a Peninsula battle but with his Prussians replacing the Portuguese as we moved the scene forward to 1815.
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
A quick game of Wars of the Roses
With Ian and I spending some time sorting through the 'Old School' Fantasy figures recently gifted to me by an 'old school' friend (see upcoming blog on that subject for more info) we decided to just play a quick, 2 divisions per side game with randomly generated leaders and forces. We used some of the suggestions in the excellent Wars of the Roses supplement to help us. I let Ian arrange some simple terrain then we diced for deployment and set too.
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
28mm Macedonian Progress.
With no game this week due to me being full of cough and cold I took the time to finish off basing a unit of 28mm Macedonian Cavalry that I had recently completed. It therefore seems like a good time to give a progress update on my 28mm Macedonian army first started in January of last year. Initially the army is based on Macedonians under Philip II at the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC will but eventually expand well beyond that into all of Alexander the Great's campaigns and even the Successors!
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
2nd St Albans
Continuing our flurry of Wars of the Roses games we opted to refight the Second Battle of St Albans this week. This scenario gives an interesting situation where the Yorkists deploy facing the wrong way, tucked behind their specially prepared defences but the Lancastrians had done a sneaky night march through the town to enter on the Yorkists flank. After a quick discussion we deemed the Yorkist well prepared defences would be hard to maneuver through so would cause disorder on any troops who tried to cross them from the front.
Capture the Bridge: 15mm General D'Armee v2.
Nigel very kindly hosted us today for a 15mm game of General D'Armee. The scenario was kept small with a simple objective of capture t...

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