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Sep 12

Malaya campaign in Memoir 44 #1

Not to give the end away but as most people reading this will be aware the Malaya campaign at the end of 1941 and start of 1942 was not...

Oct 1, 2023

More Celtic/Gallic/Albion Shenanigans

In part One I covered the more regular elements of a Celtic army in Legiones Antiquitatas but now we wander off the paths and into the...

Sep 24, 2023

Celts, Gaul and Albion part 1

Having shared my Legiones Antiquitata Roman army a few weeks ago I thought it was time to put up their essential and at times existential...

Jul 15, 2023

Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me... part I unus

This blog is all about the Roman army for my Legiones Antiquitata (L.A.) game which is appropriate! In Legiones historical ancients are...

Jan 21, 2023

Legions Ancients - Pre-Colombiana.

Legiones antiquitata is a game where the historical ancients armies we all know and love exist in a world where timelines have slipped...

Nov 12, 2022

William Henry Johnson - Part 2, A Great War story

Back in 2021 I wrote part one about my Great Uncle William Henry Johnson and his service in WW1 notably as one of JRR Tolkiens'...

Aug 13, 2022

The past isn't dead - hell it's not even the past! (1)

First heard this phrase from the mouth of Sheriff Buck in the vastly underrated TV series "American Gothic" and along with "Someone's at...

Dec 11, 2021

Little and Large

Not a blog about 1980s comedians but instead about a 1940s comedic double act, The T35 and T38 Tanks, here represented by Trenchworx...

Nov 15, 2021

William Henry Johnson - The story of my great uncle during the Great War. Part I.

By October 1918 William (Billy) Johnson had been in the Army since almost the start of the war and was now acting Corporal of no. 2...

Aug 22, 2021

Best AFVs of the war, year by year. Part 1 1939.

Having watched lots of top 5 tank videos on you tube I thought to myself that I could do a top 5 tanks of my own despite the fact that I...