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1973 Flames of War: The Yom Kippur War
I'm blowed if I can get Blogger to upload word documents, but i wanted a link on this blog to the Yom Kippur War Rules. So the solution is to copy the page on my old blog, NDCblog at Wordpress and...
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Fate of a Nation - official Arab-Israeli FoW
Announced on Chris Townley's blog a couple of weeks ago was the news that Battlefront are releasing a Six Day War supplement for Flames of War. The day before it was on the FoW forums, and yesterday...
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Repainted Israeli Army ready for Fate of a Nation
So here are the tanks that I've been working on. The whole army is now repainted with the Hannants acrylic, but these photos are just the vehicles that I haven't featured before:Quality Castings M51...
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Three points for SAGA so far
In this break from all things Arab-Israeli War I'd like to showcase my first few units for SAGA. They are Anglo-Danish troops using Black Tree miniatures.The whole force standing around...
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Donald Featherstone passes
The latest news on TMP is that Donald Featherstone, 'the father of modern wargaming', has passed away.Donald Featherstone R.I.P. (this is a still from a Youtube video featuring the Don)I cannot do...
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Kippur - a brief review
Kippur is an Israeli movie set during the Yom Kippur War of 1973. I saw it on the shelf for $8 having never heard of it before, so figured I'd give it a go.The DVD coverThe basic plot is about two...
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First game of Bolt Action
On Friday night we all met up at John's place for a couple of games. This was to be an all World War II affair, with one table running Germans vs US Flames of War, and the other table trying out the...
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Something worth fighting for
I've been plodding away at a bit of terrain recently, trying to create a small farmstead as a location for my SAGA games. I finally finished it off today.Defenders of England prepared to protect their...
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Dystopian Wars terrain
A while back I made an island for my Dystopian Wars Britannians to sail around. It isn't anything spectacular, but I took some photos the other day when I was preparing the blog post about the Dark...
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Fast Flames Early War Tournament
This event was actually held a fortnight ago, but I've lost my blogging mojo in amongst the amount of work coming my way at the moment.In a repeat of the tournament set up from February, we had eight...
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SAGAing away
I realise that the blog has been quite quiet lately, and that is very much a side effect of lots of work, the impending Yule-pocalypse and the resultant decision to spend spare time painting and gaming...
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Hobbitses
These are John's Christmas present. A little late, but still in 2013!Sorry for the fuzziness, I was experiencing all sorts of technical issues on a limited amount of time this morning.
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Projects for 2014
2014 is here and I'm back from my holiday at the beach (water was warm and I had a lot of sunny days to splash around in it with the kids). So it is time to look forward to what this year will bring,...
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The Company of Pharaonic Revivalists
A long time ago I bought a number of Reaper Egyptian horror figures to go with some Egyptians Dan had bought for pulp skirmish. When I first saw the Servants of Ra company I immediately thought of...
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Infinite learning curve
On Friday night I had my first game of Infinity against Michael. I had a good idea of turn sequence and resolution of combat etc, but absolutely no idea about special rules or the effects of weapons...
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Sneak peak of things to come
I couldn't resist test painting a few Roman figures as the beginning of my upcoming Gallic Wars project.These are all Wargames Factory Romans.The four test figures - command for my 16 figure...
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The Imperial Cossack Company
Another home grown company for In Her Majesty's Name is my Imperial Cossack Company. Colonel Razin (he has some famous ancestors) leads a disparate group of callous and dangerous agents in the name of...
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Society of Thule
I finished painting the Society of Thule company from North Star minis. Now they can take on the Imperial Cossacks.The characters - Von Stroheim, Dr Kobalt and Feldwebel KriegThe perfectly live and...
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First games of IHMN
Dan was here for a short stay last week, and we took the chance to have a couple of games of In Her Majesty's Name. These were in part a playtest for the Imperial Cossack Company, with stats changing...
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I won (again)
Blog giveaways are happening all over the place now, and I've entered a few. The last time I won I had to put in quite a bit of effort, and the result was winning the Heropress competition with my...
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