Lion Rampant – A great day of Gaming

Unfortunately over the last month Taff and I have been unable to get together to progress our LR Campaign. Today though a friend from Plymouth pop in and wow did we have a day of gaming! I ran over the campaign ‘s outline and we started. You get 5pts if you win a battle and

Feb Painting part 1

Thought I might show what I have been doing , this week I have finished apart basing the following. These 15mms have been in my collection for years. I recently saw an article on Big Base DBA and it awoke my interest but needed to see if I could still paint 15s. I think I

Lion Rampant – A refresher

As it has been a while since Taff or myself have played LR we through a game or two before we play the campaign would be great. Taff’s force comprised scouts, bows, berserkers, hird and Huscarl leader. With a few upgrades. I went for skirmishes, Greater Fyrd, select Fyrd one being veterans and Huscarl leader.

Another Unit for Scottish Wars 2

This is representing Sir Hugh de Cressingham’s retinue. He was the treasurer of Scotland and met his end at the Battle of Stirling in 1297. Not a liked man, it is reported that he his body was flayed and William Wallace used a length of skin to make a baldrick for his sword! The figures

Another Unit for Scottish Wars

Over the last week having finished the WW2 I needed for the first game, I decided to finish a unit of knights for my English army that was half done. I have based each unit on a 125 x 100mm bases. I have left a space at the back to allow the stats to be

Rapid Fire Project – The Game

I was hoping to describe to you what I hoped was going to be a great game. Unfortunately due to a family emergency after two turns we had to abandon the game with little chance to all get together again until the new year. The forces British German Taff as the Germans had plotted all

Rapid Fire Project -A Good Start 2

Well in the first few weeks of retirement I have enjoyed painting more than normal. So much so that I have managed to finish enough to do a run through of the rules. Taff popped over in the afternoon to run through the rules as we have invited Nathan over in a couple of weeks

Rapid Fire Project -A Good Start

Well in the last few weeks I have done a bit of painting and changed my mind over my starting scenario. I have decided to go with the scenario in the Rapid Fire Reloaded rule book. The German Army is a little larger than the previous scenario but I hope to have the game forces

WW2 New Project

As stated I have always wanted a ww2 collection to be proud of having seen the beautiful pictures in the Rapid Fire rules. I will be using 20mm miniatures, mainly from Britannia Miniatures as I love the character of them and the odd 1/72 model kit. While I am confident on AWI, Napoleonic, SYW uniforms

WW2 About Time

Over 20 years ago I played my first serious ww2 wargame using Rapid Fire rules. The rules and especially the pictures of the games made me determined that one day I would have a stunning ww2 collection. Over the years the Rapid Fire team added more and more! Including a new version of the rules