The Wishful Wargamer

Saturday, 30 May 2026

Progressive Republic

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I started this blog back in 2011 whilst sitting in our rented apartment in Jamestown, on the South Atlantic island of St Helena, looking out...
Saturday, 23 May 2026

An English Church

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I am the keeper of two 6mm (Heroics & Ros) English Civil War armies based for the WRG's DBR rules that have been sitting in a shoebo...
Saturday, 16 May 2026

Chasseurs à Pied

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In addition to the ongoing development of my early Napoleonic Russian and matching Württemberg armies in 15mm, I also have quite a few plast...
Saturday, 9 May 2026

One-Hour Wargames 19: Blow From the Rear

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Quite some time ago we started (and eventually finished) a five-game mini-campaign based on the scenarios presented in Neil Thomas' usef...
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Sunday, 8 February 2026

A Century of Conifers

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This month I decided I needed more trees, particularly conifers, and I thought I could make them.  After watching a couple of videos on how ...
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Wednesday, 29 October 2025

Rebasing DBA

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Just a brief post about some rebasing I did this week. I've had these armies since v1.0 of the rules, but since I got a copy of v3.0 rec...
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Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Russians and French

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I'm still expanding my 15mm Napoleonic Württemberg army, and intend to add more now that, at the time of writing, Warrior Minatures has ...
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Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Walls in Ruins

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Further to my earlier post about some 15mm ancient city walls and buildings I'd made, I thought some evidence of violent siege would be...
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Sunday, 3 August 2025

Return of the Warrior

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I was at the SESWC Claymore show yesterday in Edinburgh with Geoff (I may post some pictures of the show later on).and it reminded me again ...
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Wednesday, 5 February 2025

The Württembergers are Coming

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Having painted quite enough 15mm Napoleonic Russians for the time being (see various previous posts, plus this glorious AAR representing th...
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Hello there, my name's Brian and I'm from Edinburgh, Scotland. I've been a wargamer (historical, preferably) since about 1970 when my father bought my brother and I our first boxes of 1/72 Airfix Commandos. Good old Dad! And good old Airfix! I spend a lot of my time now wishing I had more time for wargaming...
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