Rear Guard Action

Yesterday visited the Crisis wargames show in Antwerp. Others have made more extensive reports on the show, so I'll not try to compete. ...

Having been gifted a few book coupons, I ordered a few books off my wishlist. The book on the Grande Armée in Germany has been on the list ...

(AWI project retrospective, part 8) The painting progress was quite satisfactory in May and June. I finished a small group of Stockbridge ...

Interesting outcome. New research links aggression after video games to the mechanisms rather than violent content. So it´s the designers fa...

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 couple of weeks ago I met Jasper and Jan-Willem and we discussed our favourite and not-so favourite miniature rule sets. This set me think...

In the mail the long awaited : Some nice French & Indian Wars minis as well: Coureurs du Bois and Indians Maroons, revolting ...

When my interest was raised in slavery at university, I also learned about the maroons (called bosnegers in Dutch controlled Surinam). Thes...

Sagrilarius put some interesting questions in his blog " The Culture of Gaming, and Vice Versa ". I was struck especially by one p...

My game designing hero is Jim Wallman, a friendly guy from South London with a warped mind and the English sense of humour. He has a good gr...