Sunday, 5 July 2026

Wormaster 2026 - Game One: Kislev v Lizards

Wormaster is one of my favourite wargame events of the year. Held in Worcester (hence the name) and this was the 4th one I'd been to. Andy and I travelled down together, Alan was indisposed abd I was taking the Kislev forces for what may be their final tournament outing for a while - I'm hoping to have a new army for Summer Sizzler.

First game I was drawn against John, who I'd met at last year's excellent Warmaster 25 event that he'd organised. He had a lovely looking Lizardman army with *no* cavalry.

The scenario involved holding objectives at the end of the game.

Broad, wintry plains, ideal for hardy Kislevites and somewhat more challenging for cold-blooded Lizardmen.


I had only a single war wagon for this event.


The Lizardmen "castled" in one corner


Kislev advanced.


Snagging objectives as they went.


The Lizards held firm



The lines closed


Despite the odds the winged lancers charged home


Blood both warm and cold was shed


Soewhere amongst this initial charging the Lizardman General was sucked into the fight. And perished!
Luck (good for me, bad for John) played a huge part!

The Leaderless Lizards struggled to claim back the objectives


The War Wagon took something of a beating but held on.


As the dust settled Kislev held more objectives and so i was able to claim a win. The (unexpected) death of his general caused John a lot of problems and despite that it was still quite a close run thing - pretty sure he'd have won if the big guy hadn't gone down.

A few bonus phone pictures





Saturday, 4 July 2026

Chain of Command Normandy (2)

 After some real life stuff and then a much needed holiday in Portugal General B. and I finally reconvened to play out some Chain of Command. It's great having places you can leave your game set up and then come back to it a month later and just carry on!

Anyway, just a few quick pics of what turned out to be something of an easy victory for the Germans




Got a few posts to catch up as well. Good to be back playing and blogging

Friday, 29 May 2026

Chain of Command Normandy '44

 General B and I started a "refresher" game of Chain of Command before we embark on the Old Hickory campaign.

We paused part way through intending to resume a week later and then real life has intervened and it may be we don't get back to it before the table needs to be cleared for other things. Ho-hum.

Anyway here are *all* the pictures so far!





It was not going well for my Americans TBF


Friday, 8 May 2026

Pulp Africa Collection for sale

Time to move this collection on.

COLLECT AT PARTIZAN MAY 17 ONLY - £120

These are a mix of Copplestone (for Foundry) and Northstar miniatures

10 Copplestone archers



8 Northstar Bearers


Three Northstar Explorers and a Foundry Boxer


15 Copplestone spearmen




A Copplestone "leader" type


8 Copplestone Foundry Askari (including command)




There's also a selection of fauna

Elephant is a painted plastic toy - he's a big lad


Hippo (Ral Partha)


Crocodile (Ral Partha)


The two Ral Partha models are 25mm, so are quite wee in comparison to the rest of this collection

Giant Ape (a Resin 7TV model)


Looking for £120 for the lot.
No splitting, no haggling.

I'll be helping Morris and Chums run the Battle of Lewes at Partizan. So if you want this army, drop a reply below (first come, first served) and then find me on the day with the cash.

Thursday, 7 May 2026

Books for Sale - Collect at Partizan

Having a bit of a clear out and have decided to move on a few things

Because I'm lazy and can't be bothered with the faff of posting these are ONLY AVAILABLE FOR COLLECTION AT PARTIZAN 17 MAY

NO BULK DISCOUNT, NO HAGGLING AND COLLECT FROM THE SHOW ONLY

Warhammer: The Great War - £30 to you



Byzantium - SOLD

FotW - SOLD

WAB 1 - £20 for this one

Hannibal - SOLD

AoA £10

Chariot Wars £10


AoC - SOLD

Vlad - SOLD


WAB ECW -£20


WAB 2 - SOLD

SAGA Saxon Dice set £5



This book is terrible, but yours for only £5


1st ed. Barons War £5


No idea which edition of BA this is, it's an A5 Hardback - £5



Drop a reply saying which ones you want and they're yours, first come, first served.
Then find me at the show with Morris and Chums - Battle of Lewes 1264