A Love of History
This map has been making the rounds on social media. The white dots represent the locations of battles fought during the last 4,500 years of recorded history. Before we get into a deeper analysis, look at this: The map doesn’t really show the locations of all the earth’s battles....
Rebels and Patriots: The Scenarios
By far the best part of this game, the even dozen scenarios elevate what would otherwise be a fairly routine warband style game. As with just about every wargame on the market, the first scenario is a simple line-them-up and run-at-each-other fight. These are great for getting your feet...
Rebels and Patriots: Mixed Emotions
It’s fine. I’ve only got a couple of fights under my belt, so it may be too early to tell, but it hasn’t really grabbed me. This is another sibling in the Rampant Family of Rules, and unlike its older brethren, a tabletop general get one attempt to activate...
Rebel Yelp
The subtitle for “Rebels and Patriots” reads, “Wargaming Rules for North America: Colonies to Civil War, and we here in the House of Wargaming are big fans of titles that include multiple colons and subtitles. We aren’t big fans of limiting our game play, however, and to that end,...
The Spanish Civil War
Yeah, we’re doing this. It’s a once-proud and wealthy nation that suffers from the high expenses of babysitting its colonies, beset by a crumbling economy, and in which radical left-wing nutjobs run riot in the streets, and in which quiet and reasonable men long for a strong man to...
A 15mm Figure Miscellany
Today feels like a good day to spam your attention with several hosts of 15mm painted figures. We’ll start with the historical crowd, all of which come by way of Irregular Miniatures. A unit of twelve light infantry for the British, with an even dozen tribesmen to match. With...
More Black Powder Eye Candy
Essex Miniatures on the runway today, modelling the finest turn of the century garb. The 19th Century, that is. We start with the French revolutionary Army in full getup. My black powder wargaming includes the counter-revolution as well as Napoleonic, so I mix and m atch these guys with...
Some Napoleonic Bigger Battles
More eye candy today, but from a historical perspective. These are from a mix of manufacturers. They are also from a variety of games. All of these were played using Wiley Games’ Fistful of Lead: Bigger Battles. Although it uses a lot more figures, something about it makes it...
I’ll Do It Myself Again, the Pirate Version
Osprey Publishing has a terrible track record when it comes to game support, and an even worse one when it comes to quick reference sheets. This is doubly so with On the Seven Seas, a little pirate set of wargame rules that includes very few tables, even within the text!...
Skool Rools: Understanding Modern Life
Remember in school when stupid teachers decided a quiet kid throwing down was ALWAYS the aggressor? Remember how they ignored the long periods of antagonism he endured before that punch? Man, that was crazy! As a friend on social media pointed out, that’s right now for setting my remembered...