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.

Tuesday, 20 October 2026

Return to Middle Earth

This week Anthony and I played War of the Ring... 2nd edition. I have a copy of the 1st edition and it turns out there isn't a huge di...

Monday, 19 October 2026

Wanders in London

I regularly have an hour or 2 to kill in London while waiting for my wife who has a regular health appointment in town. I try and fill the...

Saturday, 26 September 2026

Dragons, Demons... and Ducks

I've posted before about how my route into wargaming started with role-playing games. My 1st game was the 'Holmes Edition' D...

Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Wofun fun

This week we played out a 16th century Scots and English battle using Anthony's really lovely Wofun miniatures flats. I've always ...

Thursday, 3 September 2026

A bloody day at Mars -La-Tour

There haven't been many posts over the last month or so, although there's been plenty of gaming and painting. On the paint table, I...

Friday, 7 August 2026

Airfix Britons on the paint table

I've been on a bit of a roll with painting recently with some ECW Epic Highlanders and Lucid Eye Elves on the paint table, and in a rus...

Thursday, 6 August 2026

1st game of Cry Havoc

I posted a little while ago about the reissued version of the classic 80s boardgame Cry Havoc. I have fond memories of playing this at un...

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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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