Blog of the Month in MWBG

This very blog was mentioned as "Blog of the Month" in the latest issue of Miniature Wargames with Battlegames (issue 390).

Thanks Henry!

Visit to Waterloo

Somehow people always visit places far from home, and never get to see the things that are nearby. I only live 40kms from Waterloo, yet never paid a visit, except one trip as a kid with my parents and from which I only remember standing inside the famous panoramic painting depicting the battle.

So, with the 200 year anniversary and all that, time for a visit proper.

Instead of giving a full account, here is a selection of some images taken by Ann:

Yes, we know all this!

On top of the lion's mound.

La Haye Sainte

Part of the panoramic painting. Hougoumont is burning in the background.

Detail of the panoramic painting.

Inside Hougoumont.

Closing the gates of Hougoumont - new memorial.

Also inside the walls of Hougoumont ...

Hougoumont again ...

The lion's mound.

Crisis 2015

With only 2 months away, it's about time to start making some decisions for our CRISIS 2015 game.

After much brainstorming, making business plans, testing of target groups in various age brackets, taking into account the current socio-economic-political climate, and having a general sense for trends, hypes, and preferences in the wargaming scene; we finally have decided to use our collection of Woodens for another outing.

Ok, that was the easy part that took about 5 minutes. Now the only thing we have left to do is to design a game ...

Index for Wargames Illustrated

Work on my index is progressing slowly but at a steady pace.

I started working on Wargames Illustrated. 13 issues entered so far.

I will probably enter issues of WI and MWBG concurrently. We'll see how fast things go ...

Battlegames index

I have added all issues of Battlegames to my experimental wargaming articles index file.

Link: http://snv-ttm.blogspot.be/p/wargames-magazine-database.html

Three more Crisis games

I am digging through my old digital archives to make some more material available of our previous game staged during Crisis:

• Raid in Zeebrugge (Crisis 2001)
• The Blue Lotus (Crisis 2007)
• An der schönen blauen Donau (Crisis 2012)

More Crisis games added

In the process of making available most of our gaming materials from our past Crisis games, I have added pages for:

• Arnhem 2005
• Red vs Blue 2013
• Poltava 2010

Poltava picture:

Two new pages ...

I created two new pages: one for our Wooden Legionaires game (rules included), ran during Crisis 2003, and one for our hexified Wings of War game, ran during Crisis 2006.

Page for Fort Stanley (Crisis 2008)

I made a page for our Crisis 2008 game, Attack on Fort Stanley, where you can download the rules etc.

Here are some images from that game:

Papierslag (Crisis 2011)

I made a page from which you can download the rules for our Crisis 2011 game Papierslag. The main feature was that all scenery and figures were made from paper, using the excellent miniatures from Billy Bones Workshop.

Some images from that game: