Caesar's War progress

Perhaps unadvisedly,  I dug out all the painted Gauls from the various boxes to check on how many I actually had in a painted state....

To misquote Zulu... Centurion - "scouts report Gauls to the South West ......thousands of them!"

 There are 24 stands of cavalry and 6 stands of light horse....

"Solid" warbands and hordes

"Fast" warbands and hordes

Skirmishers

In the interim, I had painted more cavalry

Gallic

Roman

I have also cleaned up some camps for the Gauls and Germans

Any more Gauls will be four to a base or hordes or command stands and there are still a mob of Germans to finish!

I suspect there has been something of a "project creep" going on although I do need a lot of barbarians to represent the forces in the game on which the campaign will be based. Certainly into Big Battle DBA territory now! 

Partizan 2026 part 2

 Here's a selection of a few of the other games I snapped on the day.

Samurai castles featured...

Shrewsbury - Rampant Lions Questionable Honour

Iron Brigade Assault on Kawajima castle

The Bunker - Wild Geese Africa (based on the film?)

Like a Stonewall group - Cape Finisterre 1805

Harrogate club Walk this Hue Vietnam 1968

Steve Jones AWI

League of Augsburg

Simon Millar War Spanish Succession 

1st Corps Magnesia

In other news, progress on Caesar in Gaul continues slowly - nine cavalry elements await basing and more eBay rescues are in the storage boxes but further painting has been brought to a stop due to unseasonable heat wave here in the UK - with temperatures in the 30s, the paint dries too quickly even with a wet palette. More bits have been cleaned and primed. Still have not tackled the ships and got distracted by researching the colour of Roman ox carts!

Partizan 2026

From the number of reports on blogs and YouTube, I'm a bit behind the trend in posting, but that's probably due to being one of the few wargamers and bloggers I know who isn't retired and still has to work for a living! 😠😟😞😢

Anyway...last Sunday I went to Partizan (along with every wargamer in the world - or so it felt like until just after lunchtime); it was VERY busy!

I managed  to bump into Andy McMaster of Another slight Diversion (https://blog.belisarius.org.uk/) and had arranged to meet David Barnes of The Ragged Soldier (https://russetcoatcpt.blogspot.com/) who was there with his friend Dave. I was with my mate Shaun - Frozen North Wargames (https://mrc19622002.wordpress.com/) who lives in Hexham way up north....

While I took over 100 photos, a lot were blurry or out of focus - obviously rushing - I've concluded it's best to wait until later when the rush dies down AND concentrate on the games that really appeal - it's almost impossible to photograph everything at Partizan.

So with that in mind, I will post the stand out games for me; if there is interest I will post the rest in another blog post, so without further ado....

Westbury Wargames Minden 1759

Boondock Sayntes Lucknow Indian Mutiny

League Extraordinary Kriegspielers Back of Beyond - The Mad Baron

The star for me - Graham Hilditch Friends of a Military Gentleman SYW with home cast 30mm - sadly a lot of photos were too blurry but fortunatly I grabbed some later when less crowded