This just showed up! Brief Border Wars II from Compass Games designed by Brian Train.

Battle is joined! Warlord epic scale Strength and Honour playtest.

Just finished the basing on the Napoleonic Saxon I/Friedrich August infantry. Henry Turner Miniatures "made" by me in Blender and printed at about 7/8mm scale. Based for my own rules.

Caesar’s Civil War - Nubian slingers. Two units of three bases each, based up for Midgard in my preferred basing style. I prefer my skirmishers and light infantry to be on circular bases as opposed to the large rectangular ones described in the ruleset. #28mm #Rome #Midgard #Wargaming

Everyone loves a good flock.

Caesar’s Roman Civil War - Pompey’s Legio III (4th Cohort). #28mm #Rome #Wargaming #Midgard

"Empire of Grass". Solitaire Mongolian Empire game. Finally in my hands!

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 Brushing off a thousand years of European history as irrelevant? Dirk Hoffmann-Becking of the @hotgpod.bsky.social makes the case for why the Holy Roman Empire demands our attention. Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/3330ce #History #Podcast #Medieval #MedievalTwitter #HistoryMatters

Things you can do when wargaming solo No. 385: pause the game to make a little unit of bargees.

“Good moaning”

A German Jäger patrol return to their shelter on the Baltic Coast in Kurland, Winter 1915/16.

1st Battalion of the 1st Pomeranian Landwehr. from Warlord's Epic scale Prussian starter box.

Arrived on Saturday and played it today - enjoyed it very much

Hey #boardgamesky! I'm looking for examples of /weird/ board games. Games that do something you don't expect games to do, whether theme, mechanic, player experience/emotion, or other surprises. Bonus points for being cheap, recent and/or quick to play, but none of these are essential.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? You are not as good.

On a similar topic, a reminder that James Blunt (yes, that one) and General Sir Mike Jackson (using creative politics and a bottle of whisky) completely fouled up direct orders to be stupid in Kosovo. It can be done!

OTD in 1669, the epic siege of Candia (Crete) ended with a Venetian surrender to the Ottomans. 21 years counts as epic in my book! Some of my 28mm French and Italian volunteers defending against another Janissary attack.

Painting 6mm 7 years war British/Hanoverian.

📢 Introducing Valls 1809, a new Napoleonic wargame by Marc Aliaga with art by Nils Johansson! This fast, tactical title for the P-300 System is coming soon. Wish-list it and help us bring this game to life! https://nevawargames.com/2025/09/25/p-300-new-game-valls-1809-battle-of-the-goi-bridge/

New project 15mm Finnish Civil War. Horrible story. Testing some ideas for the reds. Mixture of manufacturers.

It's 1805 and, blissfully unaware of Ulm or Austerlitz, my Austrians spring an ambush in what we think will beat the Bavarians, but then the ambushers become the ambushees as a load more Bavarians turn up and send most of the Austrians fleeing. Piquet rules.

there is! Calendar of UK Wargames Events - British Historical Games Society share.google/Y92M7RERGaAp...

Returning to our Iran Iraq game

Is this silly?

📅#OTD 1642, skirmish at Powick Bridge. A total force of around 2,000-3,000 clash in an action that lasted just 15 minutes. The Earl of Clarendon's narrative suggests Rupert, relaxing in a field, was caught off-guard. In fact, eyewitness accounts tell a very different story. #EnglishCivilWar

We're baaaa-aaack! Mentioned In Dispatches S15 E1 – The Wargaming “Canon” Our first episode brings together a distinguished panel to try to figure out all the games you ought to play to truly earn your Grognard Merit Badge armchairdragoons.com...

I’ll check again if anyone knows of a good English language look at Ricardo Wall? A veteran of the War of the Quadruple Alliance, of Polish Succession and Austrian Succession, he was chief minister in Spain when it joined the Seven Years War.

Guilty as charged. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 ⛏️ Brutal truth: your odds of survival were better in the Colosseum than in a Roman mine. @belovedofoizys.bsky.social explains why the arena, for some, was the safer bet. #Gladiators #RomanEmpire #HistoryFacts #AncientWorld Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/32a91d#Gladiators#RomanEmpire#HistoryFacts#AncientWorld#History #Podcast

This thing here, exhibit A in "the danger of leaving our ships to melt in the hot sun", is HMS Glatton. And on this day in 1918 things went even more pear-shaped than they already were...

Still playing our War of the 3 nations campaign. It's the end of 1642 and there is a battle in Ireland. Covenants, besieged by Royalists and their Irish allies, attempt to break out of Belfast to reach a small Parliamentarian force sent to help them.

Completed the British 1st Light Cruiser Squadron (HMS Galatea, HMS Phaeton, HMS Inconstant & HMS Cordelia) and the German II. Aufklärungsgruppe (SMS Frankfurt, SMS Wiesbaden, SMS Pillau & SMS Elbing) this week. Basing underway 1/4800 scale Ark Royal Miniatures WW1 ships #NavalWargaming

This goes on the must get list for understanding sieges. 'Siege in Ireland, 1641-53' by Pádraig Lenihan. Out next month. www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/s...

Painted up a 6mm Matilda II company for #ArmouredStorm Lovely 3D prints from #ScotiaGrendel

In some ways this is on track to be my best painted army. I did just happen to glance at a Perry's guide and notice I've done the 4 fusilier company colours here so I MAY have just obliged myself to add a Grenadier and Volitigeur stand to each battalion. It's still only 12 models per battalion so...

24 SYW Prussian gun crew finished. The chonky brush boy in the middle is my favourite casting in the set of six. Foundry figures and 95% Speedpaints. Total for the year is now 303!

🚨 NEXT WEEK FOR SUBSCRIBERS🚨 Discover the myths of Greek mythology with @nataliehaynes.bsky.social as she discusses the often overlooked female figures and the complexities of ancient stories. #GreekMythology Get this early release at: www.patreon.com/history#GreekMythologyage Or join on Apple subscriptions

Sorry I haven’t been posting anything here, so here’s something to get the ball rolling.

Birdseye view of the Iraqis closing on the flanks

Another playtest of my Spanish Civil War game. Franco (me) won this one after some big battle outside Madrid decimated the Republic's army.

Weird, my alert gave hyper-specific directions to a bunker and said that the masses were being told the alert was just a test? Nice of them to goof around with the emergency alert, I guess.

Waterloo Megagame 6-7 Sept 2025 Join us on YouTube for live updates: youtube.com/@jameslangha...

Raglan‘s quick and easy approach to painting modern Russian MBTs. Stage 1: undercoat with a black spray followed by a dark green to provide a solid base. Vary the green colour, because not all vehicles will be painted at the same time and therefore you are already introducing a “campaign“ feel👌

Here we go. Never seen this movie before.

Played the Columbia games Napoleonic game "Alliance". 3-player 1812 scenario. I was the Russians and got taken apart by the Austrians and Prussians. France won. I looked at the units afterwards and Austria alone has a better army than Russia, which seems odd.

New Online Course: The Carolingians www.medievalists.net/2025/09/new-... #medievalsky

I was explaining some sabot bases I'd made to a person on a different platform, and a picture is easier than lots of words. Six figure skirmish group of American riflemen for the AWI - ideal for Sharp Practice or Rebels & Patriots. #spreadthelard #rebelsandpatriots #wargaming #nerdlings

Play testing Intramural: the soccer trick-taking poker game. With the new smaller board and streamlined deal, it works pretty good, the shots on goal come fast and the poker hands are all pretty good. I’m probably going to upload everything to BGG and hopefully get some feedback.

Corvet is pretty fun starship combat. #wargaming