doctorphalanx

I'm not actually planning anything new just at the moment, but this is an area of on-going interest. My historical education at school w...

The empty field (lower left-hand corner) had contained a German platoon. Despite eliminating this, the British platoon (lower centre) was ...

Monitor vs Merrimac Enthusiasms come and go, and plans and projects leapfrog one another before they can be finished or even started. Bu...

People get very involved when, in multi-player games, they have a ship each, and I thought it would be a good idea to boost this personal ...

I needed some wreckage markers for Galleys & Galleons . Wreckage and survivors are included with the Peter Pig manned rowing boats. PP ...

I have a bucket list of rules I'd like to try out and Red Actions  by The Perfect Captain is one of them. At one time I'd have fel...

It's handy to have a few smaller, cheaper ships for making up points, so I decided to create some gun boats by cannibalising Peter Pig r...

A flotilla of Chinese pirate junks from Grumpy's Miniatures has now joined my collection of ships for Galleys & Galleons . They are ...

'Waterlining' the three  Pirateology xebecs was an unavoidable challenge but not one I was looking forward to. Owing to the relati...

Making forts from take-away coffee-cup tops is a brilliant idea but it wasn't mine. I stole it from the well-known naval wargamer and fe...

I recently bought three Pirateology xebecs as the basis of a Barbary Pirate fleet for Galleys & Galleons . Sold as a 'Barbary Galle...

Nic Wright's forthcoming Galleys & Galleons rules are certainly raising a lot of interest and just before Christmas my friend Ian ...

My first batch of ships for Galleys & Galleons is now based and primed. The ships are to some extent interchangeable but these photos ...

I decided to try a new method for basing my 1/450 Peter Pig pirate ships for Galleys & Galleons - aluminium 'turkey' foil. It...

Nic Wright's Irregular Wars: Conflict at the World's End reinforced my interest in games which require only small armies and a co...

Here are some pictures of reinforcements for my Spanish Civil War armies. They were completed some time ago but have not been featured here ...

I've been collecting 15mm figures for my Irregular Wars 'Mere Irish' Battle. 'Mere' is today a slighting term but orig...

These fortifications were made to represent (1)  'trench and wire' , and (2)  'concrete and wire'  fortifications as defin...

I played a second 'Quick Game' of the new Square Bashing 2012 rules, this time against a different opponent. It was another attem...

I played my first game of Peter Pig's new Square Bashing 2012 rules using the Quick Game option and my Pendraken 10mm 1918 British and...