Friday, 26 July 2019

Over the hills and far away: UK assault on South Africa 1807

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Inspiration from my favorite author and the old osprey publishing book on the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. This project I plan on doi...

The descent on the river Plate 1808

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The unsuccessful campaign in South America by the British inspired by my favorite author This was my other project which fell by the waysid...

Roddy Mcourlly 1798 Rebellion

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I've been interested in gaming this conflict as my ancestors are from Ireland and I share the name of a song. As well, my late great Unc...

Fort Chambly 1776

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Now I know that Chambly was not besieged by the British against the Americans but it could be an interesting battle Inspired by the Osprey ...

Georgia 1740s actions between the British and Spanish

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 Osprey Publishing books on Colonial American troops in the Southern colonies against the Spanish The Spanish troops in question will look ...

French counter revolutionary actions 1790s

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One of the articles in Wargames Illustrated lists this scenario as an interesting game idea. More to follow. I have several civilian type f...
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...