Friday, 28 June 2019

The Battle of Carrickfergus 21 February 1760

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As mentioned in the previous posting Battle of Carrickfergus was a French invasion of Northern Ireland during the Seven Years War one of the...
Thursday, 27 June 2019

War games Illustrated issue 381 July 2019 3 18th century campaigns

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This issue consists of invasion scenarios with which cover the period of my Irish Highlander blog we have the Battle of carrickfergus 1760 t...
Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Seaports and towns, HO/HO scale card stock buildings

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Back in the 1990s, I had purchased 2 books of New England themed buildings for a town, and a seaport. I lovely built them and used them...
Monday, 13 May 2019

Another new idea, Hudson's Bay vs Northwest trading company Battle of 7 Oaks, 1821

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One of the interesting scenarios and conflicts which I have read about was the violent rivarly between these 2 fur trading companies. The N...
Sunday, 12 May 2019

Warlord Games Plastic Colonial Militia

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As part of my subscription to Wargames Illustrated, I received a free sprue of figures or kit as a promotion. This month, is an 18th century...
Sunday, 21 April 2019

Battle of Lake George, 1755

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 Baron Diskeau's force made up of Regiment La Reine and Regiment Landeauc  the Anglo-american force of Sir William Johnson's for...
Saturday, 20 April 2019

My version of Culloden April 16, 1746

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My first 18th century game of the season. The Jacobite line forms up the government forces take position near the old farm. rather t...
Monday, 15 April 2019

The collection I have is to stand as is.

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I have come to the realization that I may have to not increase my collection of my main hobby collection. Around 2004, I took a count of my...
Friday, 12 April 2019

Barrosa 1811 will now be New Orleans 1815

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As some blog viewers may have noticed, I had a rather large blog posting about an upcoming battle I had planned to do. However, over the las...
Sunday, 10 March 2019

Warmer weather coming, so garage will be back in business

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I was puttering around in my garage between work, sleep, shoveling snow and slush and then water issues. I should be able to get two tables...