Rear Guard Action

Something happened to me on Friday that I though would never happen. I played a game I never understood and that I dislike.The few times I...

Hard to figure out where to start on this one. Still stuck in a WTF feeling, to be honest. Because Satan has been scary this year. Very scar...

Okay, I know, it's a bit late. But great nonetheless! The idea started a few years back on Fortress Ameritrash , reversing the Sec...

First book read this year! Chance encounter in 2nd hand. Very readable military autobiography of early 19th century. Koch was born in...

It's been a long time, but I came back to playing The Prince: The Struggle of the House Borgia (sold as Borgia in the Netherlands)   las...

I wrote this short introduction for a presentation I will be making at the Poldercon convention on February 12th. They asked for a present...

Went to see the renovated Egyptian exhibition and the Valley of the Queens exhibition in the ancient history museum in town. Really well don...

Also in, this great book on the Dutch army under the Kingdom of Holland. This period was the last step between the foundation of a Batavian ...

Played a second game of Wir Sind Das Volk last Friday, this time as the Ossies. The game is quite unforgiving of mistakes on the East Germa...

Native American warfare had a different context to it than than the modern nation state and of the colonial powers that it faced. Given the ...