Sunday, 22 October 2023

17th century armies - Part one The Spanish

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Having done my best to define the key troop types used in 'Stand with me to fight the field' (I'm beginning to think that title ...
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Wednesday, 18 October 2023

I'm not a well man, Carstairs!

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Back in the far off days of my youth I read a set of humorous short stories about mountaineering which I can now find no trace of using my G...
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Friday, 13 October 2023

Defining the troops in 'Stand with me to fight the field'

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2mm Infantry Battalia 2:1 shot to pike so classed as mixed fire power Now this looks like a big body of troops Because I started these rules...
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Tuesday, 12 September 2023

Stow on the Wold 1646 using 'Stand up with me to fight the field'

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'Stand up with me to fight the field' is the name I have chosen for my home brew pike and shot rules.  These rules started way back ...
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Friday, 1 September 2023

Wargame scenario - Last stand in the Cotswolds -21 March 1645

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To be fully accurate it was actually counted as 1645 by contemporaries, although by our reckoning it was actually fought on 1 April 1646 (se...
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Thursday, 17 August 2023

How do you test a new set of rules?

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A really rather useful  post over on Jonathan Freitag's blog 'Palouse Wargaming Journal'   >>Link<<   reviewing a ne...
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Monday, 14 August 2023

A Napoleonics game at Chez Dawson

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Long term readers will have gathered by now that the one period I have really struggled to come to grips with are the Napoleonic Wars. So i...
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