Wargame Rules

BLOG BACKGROUND AND WARGAME RULES
I have set up this blog for my wargaming interests in the Muscovite-Tartar Wars, Reconquista Wars, the Barbary Coast Pirates, and the early campaigns of the Ottoman Turks and Saracens. Some lesser known crusades will also be covered. Miniatures are mainly 28mm with a growing collection in 54mm. If my photographs serve to encourage others to complete their collections I shall be pleased. I will also be mentioning other sites with interesting collections on the above. Do join the 'Friends' if you like what you see.

I prefer to use my own rules which are kept simple and involve eight-sided dice. These allow for fast results with various types of weaponry. Morale dominates my games.


Tuesday 27 March 2018

Can never have enough dice!

A visit to a charity shop today furnished a bag of 39 dice, and all for £1. One of them is steel, and very heavy. Five are wooden so they can be drafted into my living history displays. Three are fruit/slot machine dice. Two are eight sided 0-7. One is linked to playing cards. And twenty-seven are standard issue 1-6. A nice little bargain! MGB

Friday 23 March 2018

Muscovite 'German' regiment completes its Establishment

Having already completed the pike-armed section last year, have just finished eighteen (actually twenty-two castings) musketeers for my Muscovite German regiment, with its own command base. This unit will now set off south, serving with the Boyar cavalry and Cossack division in the planned campaign against the Crim Tartars. All the figures in this formation are actually ECW Hinchcliffe castings, but they look like the European mercenaries that served in these units. MGB

Saturday 10 March 2018

Zaporozhian Cossacks with their new banner

A band of Zaporozhian Cossacks have been given a revamp, rebased, and a suitable banner. They are now on the march to join the Muscovite army on their planned campaign. MGB