doctorphalanx

I never got round to playing Twilight of the Sun King but I’m currently looking for a set of Thirty Years War army-level rules and had no...

General with Dutch East India Company flag My 15mm Colonial Portuguese and Hollanders are finally finished. I first posted about these b...

The figures are mostly Grumpy Miniatures Despite spending a lot of time helping to playtest the current edition of Irregular Wars , I ha...

View from the main French force: Gendarmes, arquebusiers, Black Band, artillery. I've previously played a few games of Impetus but n...

The sloop sets out to run the Barbary blockade I fought another couple of Galleys & Galleon s playtest games, this time using the B...

'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...

A new version of Nic Wright's Irregular Wars: Conflict at the World's End has just been published. Full details of where to get it...

Whilst awaiting the release of the Khurasan English and Spanish for the Elizabethan Anglo-Irish Wars, my figure collecting for Irregular Wa...

I'll be posting again about buildings for Irregular Wars , but my first acquisition is this 15mm wattle enclosure produced by Baueda and...

The birth of my interest in Nic Wright's Irregular Wars: Conflict at the World's End coincided with the author commencing developm...

Some people have some strange ways of measuring wheels. I like the closing door analogy. When measuring (forward) wheels, one front corne...

I've finally played my first actual game of  Irregular Wars  against another player. This was not only my first proper experience of I...

Keen to start playing Irregular Wars while the 15mm metal figures are being released, collected and painted, I knocked out a couple of cou...

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