After busting a gut, rebasing the HQ stands, artillery and adding flags to both armies, I've decided that I don't really want to expand my 15th century interest beyond the Wars Of The Roses. To this end: SELL/ SWAP 28mm Swiss & Burgundian Armies   I am interested in trading for the followingarmies in similar numbers, fully painted and of the same standard. Larger forces if plastic.    28mm Imperial Roman 28mm Gallic or Ancient British 28mm Italian Wars 28mm 30YW 28mm Early Parliamentarian (ECW) 28mm Classical Indian 28mm Classical Greek 28mm Macedonian   Any of the above in 15mm but they will need to be significantly larger armies of course    BURGUNDIAN - £1700    The pike are all steel pins The basing is wood    The collection comprises:    1 command vignette 24 Mounted Knights 32 Foot Knights 8 artillery pieces 24 crew 24 Longbowmen 48 Billmen 28 Handgunners 24 Crossbowmen 120 pikemen        ...

As you know, I muse on many things which are tangentally connected to my gaming life over the last 42 years, and this post is no exception. As I work, I listen to audiobooks, as well as reading when in the bath or one of those rare times I am sat down in an armchair. I confess that I very rarely now, touch military history titles, because I know all I need to know about the periods I game, and there's only so much you cn say about this battle or the other. So, although I tend to read the odd sci-fi story, I read a lot of popular culture histories, particularly those which tie the culture into the politics of the decades I have witnessed. This week, I've spent 40 hours alone, listening to the autobiography of 'Punk' poet, John Cooper Clarke and Nothin' But A Good Time' - a history of the the L.A 'Hair Metal' scene. Both are truly brilliant. Mr Clarke is frank and honest, with a wry sense of humour. You get to understand what his fall into drug dependancy...

 Hi all, The last week has been a busy one, to the extent that I awoke this morning convinced that it was actually Wednesday. That said, I did spend the weekend unpacking my latest acquisition, namely just shy of 1000 28mm Swiss and Burgundian minis, which, as I still need to get off my arse and buy the right boxes to house them in, they went straight onto the table, with the exception of the cavalry, which went straight to my studio to have the bendy lances replaced, along with new banners.  Added to the 1200 Wars Of The Roses Models, currently with my painter of choice, it gives me a pretty good base for some good games. I was asked yesterday, 'which battles are you collecting?' Well, of course, getting a field in your bag is difficult, but I understood, and I pointed out that I don't generally 'do' refights. I prefer to have decent representations of armies of a given preiod, painted as the most attractive units involved. I mean, if you have a choice, you are not...

 Well, the Jubilee game was a cracker. We did not get as much play as we'd have liked, due to 'real world' issues, which must always come first. without question. The chance to play a game with great people, one of whom I am rushing to make up lost time with as we hit the late summer of life, is something which gives me pleasure of a type I can't express strongly enough. My brother was back at the wargames table for the first time since our father passed, which was also brilliant. There was banter, snide comments, terrible dice rolls and cameraderie, punctuated by a nice traditional buffet lunch which my ever obliging and long suffering wife (the Memsahib) put together, and then Roger's wonderful lady, arrived from a day's shopping trip with afternoon sweetmeats. As you may imagine it was tempered by farewells, but nonetheless it was a belter of a day! Here are a few pics of the day's play, kindly snapped as we played by my brother, Andy.