Here's no great matter

There has been some movement in the wargaming room since Easter, including some painting, which has been a welcome development. The day job...

There has been a slow move back towards a figure gaming focus at the house of Prufrock. I placed a couple of orders with the excellent Potbe...

 It has rushed by like a freight train, hasn't it?  At the stage of life I'm in the successes that count tend to be those of our chi...

Jon Freitag recently did one of his famous data dives and looked into people's least favourite things about wargaming . Rules lawyers we...

There was a poll recently on the Society of Ancients forum about whether members listen to wargaming podcasts while they are painting. Curio...

Since moving back to New Zealand in 2019 I've missed playing Commands & Colors: Ancients. I have the boardgames of course, but playi...

I'm not a huge TV watcher, but a mate told me I had to watch the new Shogun series, so I did. I now join the vast majority and recommend...

Well, the Society of Ancients Battle Day has come and gone, and I didn't get to do an Ilipa refight after all. With SP busy with work an...

The excellent blogger Polemarch has recently put up a couple of thought-provoking posts on campaigns. The first talks about types of campai...

Richard Borg, that is. Following on from my last post, featuring the Borg board game Memoir '44, it turns out that this game I was defi...

Back in 2007, when I was living in Japan and my passion for Commands & Colors: Ancients was at its height, I took a 'partscaster...

JWH, in his Heretical Gaming blog, recently put up a post - inspired by the late great Peter Young - on the advice he would give to a warga...

It's been quite some time since I've posted here. We've been through a busy period of house renovations, kids developing social ...

It's been a long time since I've rock n rolled, as the song goes. While a neat little intro, it's not strictly correct: I have p...

One of the things that has impressed me most in the time I've been wargaming is the way that game design has progressed.   When I starte...

For the first time since perhaps March 2019 I have picked up a paintbrush. The objects of my attentions were not the Greeks for Mantinea sig...

Goes the verse.  I was lucky enough to get into wargaming seriously at a propitious time. I had long had an interest in it, had borrowed boo...

Ladies and gentlemen, the Rolling Stones.   

We all of us enjoy our wargaming, our playing with toy soldiers, our board wargames, and our reading around these kinds of topics. There is ...

It feels like a long time since I've written anything related to our collective fascination, but now seems as good a time as any to vent...