Rear Guard Action

I Read Simon Millar's Osprey Campaign book on the battle of Assaye. In this battle Arthur Wellesley defeated a Maratha alliance to esta...

Had a quick game of some Disney princess game, which was fun, actually, especially with the magic wand that did the dice rolling. It was al...

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...

Some good book shopping on Saturday with Michiel! The best time was actually spent in the comic shop. Hadn't been in a long time an...

Apart from Fürstenfeld , last Friday we also played Evo. And while I was pleased but underwhelmed by the former, I was very pleased and impr...

Played Friedeman Friese's Fürstenfeld last Friday. This game is a true euro: it is about selling resources to breweries so you can build...

The Defence And Fall Of Singapore 1940-1942 ,  by Brian P. Farrell Although Farrell presents his case very well, it gets repetitive and wo...

Okay, this blog is about games and history, officially like. But this song just rocks. I've played it dozens of times over the last week...

I 'met' Sean McLachlan through his excelent Osprey book on the battle of Adowa . I then found out he's been doing lots of intere...

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...