A Wargaming Gallimaufry

Musings on toy soldiers, life, family and the world... but mainly toy soldiers. Gallimaufry: noun - a confused jumble or medley of things.

Monday, 25 August 2025

Blogging - more alive than you might think

A slightly navel-gazing post today.. I started my blog back in 2012, more out of curiosity than anything else and as a way of tracking game...

Saturday, 23 August 2025

Commands and Colours: Medieval

Recently I've played quite a few games using variants of the Commands & Colours rules, and each time we've come away remarking...

Sunday, 10 August 2025

Jacobite Rising - The Battle of Littleferry

This week's game was a long-awaited game of Jacobite Rising, the Commands and Colours variant. Rather than using the usual blocks that c...

Wednesday, 6 August 2025

Skyteam

My son gave me a copy of this for Father's Day and we finally got round to trying it out at the weekend. It's a quick (20-30 minute...

Saturday, 2 August 2025

The Covenanters finally appear!

Back in 2023(!) I succumbed to marketing genius of Warlord Games and started painting up a few of the freebie sprues that they occasionally...

Sunday, 20 July 2025

AI... good or bloody annoying?

Of course the answer is probably both! If you've been on any wargaming related FB pages recently you can't miss the flurry of posts...

Saturday, 19 July 2025

Painting update

I've had a bit of a break from painting... my usual spot in the dining room was occupied with other stuff, and I hadn't really felt ...

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alastair: Surrey, United Kingdom; A 50 something dad and wargamer. I've been playing with toy soldiers for longer than I can remember [I blame my parents for buying me a toy fort when I was little!] I'm originally from Glasgow but have lived in London/Surrey for 30 odd years [very odd in some cases!] and toil away at the gritty coalface of Charity Sector middle management. https://bsky.app/profile/red3584.bsky.social

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