Rear Guard Action

Another couple of books I read the past moths were triggered by plans for some medieval wargaming. Somebody suggested that we should try the...

Well... they are not actually new. I think I painted them about 25 years ago, for a big crusade game where I was the pope and needed some e...

I promised myself two small painting projects for the 2nd half of 2015. I had already compiled a short list of possible projects in the ear...

Somehow, what started out as an anything-but-Waterloo summer has turned in to a medieval reading tournament. After the wonderful Quest for E...

What a joy! After a year of almost exclusive focus on Napoleonics I am now returning to the promiscuous reading selection of old. One of...

Apart from the stone commemorating the crash of Régis Deleuze the area around Houten is thick with castles that trace back to medieval times...

Had  a very beautiful and interesting round of cycling yesterday. Surprising how much history there is to be found literally around the corn...

Okay, so I brought some stuff back with me, despite all the talking. Some books for my Waterloo project. Although I have more than enough ...

Yesterday´s post was about some favourite miniature rule sets, but later that night I also had a discussion about rule sets at the birthda...

A fine addition to my Dux Brittaniarum host, a bunch of priests to rob and despoil.  Part one of my new Foundry shipment.  

I played two games of Age of Renaissance in the last month. It had been almost a decade since we last played it, so we all had to have a g...

It took me a while to finish this last part of the Al-Andalus project because I needed to sit down and have a look at the books again. ...

I may have remarked sometime before that I spent many a rainy wednesday in the local library when I was young. I didn't read books but w...

Michiel bought a bunch of second hand Ospreys from the Dutch equivalent of eBay. And this one he already had, so I got it from him (it's...

Was able to pick up two interesting books today, from the same Dutch publisher (Verloren). Pure coincidence. First one in the Netherlands d...