Adventures in 3mm

I recently got some 3mm WW2 figures to try out on a bit of an impulse. I wanted to do some jungle-type bases in a similar style to my 6mm WW2 Eastern Front bases. While I had done some such bases in 15mm, this really only amounted to putting a load of foliage on the…

Feudal (Japan) Patrol

Feudal Patrol is the Medieval version of Buck Surdu's WW2 rules 'Combat Patrol.' I really liked Combat Patrol, but I'm not the biggest fan of platoon level WW2, so I haven't played it that much. I was keen to see how the system would work in an earlier period. When the rules arrived on pre-order,…

Bloody Barons

The new iteration of Peter Pig's Wars of the Roses rules, 'Bloody Barons' is now available. It is, however, completely different to the previous version. It is an entirely new game with virtually nothing in common with its predecessor. For a start, the game is played on a 4x4 grid, similar to Phil Sabin's Lost…

Escape from Korōnamura. A solo Test of Honour scenario.

"No-one had heard from the villagers of Korōnamura for weeks. They appeared to have gone into some kind of self-isolation, socially distancing themselves from the officers sent by their nominal landlord. A small group of men is sent to Korōnamura to find out what is going on." The player commands a group of men sent…

The Aburanokōji Incident

A Test of Honour game The Shinsengumi was a police force raised by the Tokugawa in the dying days of the Shogunate to police Kyoto for anti-Bakufu extremists. The core of the unit was a group of swordsmen from a kenjutsu school owned by the Shinsengumi's leader, Kondō Isami. The Shinsengumi sprang to prominence when…

Beginning a 6mm Wars of the Roses Project

A few years ago I began a Wars of the Roses project in 28mm. While I'd intended it to be an open-ended project, progress was slow and eventually stalled completely. Recently, I decided to revisit the period in a more manageable scale. I am intending to use the Perfect Captain's "A Coat of Steel" rules,…

Fighting the Genpei War with ‘Bag the Hun’

Converting Too Fat Lardies' WW2 air combat rules for 12th century Japan. At first, and indeed second, glance it may seem like a crazy idea to use a set of WW2 aircraft rules for medieval Japanese skirmishes. However, I think it provides a useful example of how looking outside the obvious period or genre can…

Bamboo

First go at a bit of rural terrain for my 28mm Sengoku Jidai project. A stand of bamboo. This is made from the usual cheap plastic bamboo from China. The plastic bamboo was soaked in a shallow tub with a mix of green paint and PVA. When this was dry, the trunks were given a…

Bush-ido. Making jungle bases for 15mm WW2 Japanese

After making scenic Eastern Front bases for 6mm Rommel, I really wanted to have a go at doing jungle bases. However, Adler didn't do 6mm Japanese (and I didn't like any of the other manufacturers), and there was no Far East supplement for Rommel anyway. Company level WW2 got a bit of a boost at…

Boshin War with Combat Patrol

The Boshin War period was one I initially got into primarily because I wanted to play the Combat Patrol rules, and I'm not the biggest fan of platoon-level WW2. So, after a few weeks, we finally got around to trying it out. The action was a pretty straightforward one, basically being the usual unimaginative 'meeting…