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Why we fight: SAGA by Tomahawk Games
A brief explanation of why Cardiff Dice Studz choose SAGA wargames rules
Stupor Mundi 2022: General assembly
Stop press: The results of Stupor Mundi: 28mm adlg Feudal 100 points: decided on number of wins and then percentage losses🙀 First Richard Walker😷 Wonder of the World ( well Cardiff)Second Mike Ferres🤡Third Don McHugh🧛🏾♀️Fourth Mark Clarke🧙🏽♂️Fifth Andrew Whitby🤮Sixth Edward Ashley Glew😾Seventh Mark Fry😿Best new… Read More
Wargaming: small or far away?
If you haven’t watched the television show Father Ted then where have you been? Just yesterday, I was reminded of the scene where the Father is explaining perspective to Donald. As my family sat on the beach, a group of horse riders passed by on… Read More
Wargaming: Hungary for success!?
How lucky the British are to be surrounded by sea! Less happy people have no rivers or mountains to mark their borders. It was only the Lviv ( latest incarnation) sign writers who benefitted from the twentieth century incessant changes of ownership. It was our… Read More
Wargaming fame at last!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9NFyEQUDn8c We thought we had him to ourselves but West Country Dice Stud, Mark Fry, has been whisked away to wargaming Tinseltown! Follow the link to the biography of this West Country wargaming legend. Having just completed his masterful overhaul of Blitzkrieg Commander, Mark fully… Read More
Wargaming; how to reload a magazine!
A strange phenomenon has been observed in my hobby room. I can see the carpet and it was described as “ quite tidy” by my current wife! Strange times indeed….. Two related thoughts come to mind, namely do I really want to start adding more… Read More
Spring wargaming!
Ten days of Covid enforced inactivity hasn’t been kind! The long gone lock down plans are now a thing of the past. Massively over paid Libtards are baying for blood on the TV. Bloodletting is good, nationalism is now good and the massive spending spree… Read More
Stupor Mundi: L’art de la Guerre 100s
https://www.thebattlefields.co.uk/events-at-the-battlefields/stupor-mundi—28mm-lart-de-la-guerre-cardiff 24th April at Firestorm Games, Cardiff and we are back together joined in tabletop combat! The period is the early medieval era of clashing knights, rapacious barons and nervous maidens. “ The wonder of the world” was of course Frederick II, King of Sicily… Read More
When wargaming gets serious
“In unguarded comments to British troops, Wallace boasted that his old regiment the Scots Guards had ‘kicked the backside’ of Tsar Nicholas I in 1853, adding: ‘we can always do it again.’ Except they cannot. In 2021, the Scots Guards were the most critically undermanned… Read More