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August 12, 2024

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Operational Design in Wargaming -Part VIII Dealing with the God's Eye view

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2021 Figure Count

10mm ACW Infantry - 96
28mm Creatures and Monsters - 19
28mm Dark Age Infantry and Command - 2
28mm Fantasy Cavalry -1
28mm Fantasy Infantry -7
28mm Modern Infantry -5
28mm Modern Vehicles -2
28mm Renaissance Cavalry - 8
28mm Samurai Cavalry - 6
28mm Samurai Infantry -7
28mm Scatter terrain -3
28mm SciFi Infattry - 11
32mm Fallout Infantry - 6
3mm Modern Armor - 210
3mm Modern Infantry - 200
3mm WWII Aircraft - 30
6mm Battlemechs - 34
6mm Battletroops - 35

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JAN - 100
FEB -248
MAR -216
APR - 247
MAY - 93
JUN - 212
JUL - 397
AUG - 71
SEP - 153
OCT - 162.5
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5 years ago
Baconfat Log

7TV Post Apocalyptic Survivors, Randos, Tech Gangers, Fallout Mutant Hounds, Graves, and a Corrugated Junk Pile - Hello Distinguisher Viewer, Today there are fifteen small things for you to look at. First are three minis from Crooked Dice's 7TV Apocalypse game. Rev...
5 years ago
Hexsides and Hand Grenades

Team Yankee - Autobahn Defense - Since I'm enjoying Team Yankee so much, I thought I'd write up a quick post so you can enjoy some nice pictures of my awful model assembly and painting s...
5 years ago
Little Lead Arms Race

Rapid Fire Saturday Game. - Played a game of Rapid Fire at the Grimsby Wargames Society club. Danny's Germans vs my Americans. Danny had two Kampfgruppe and I fielded a Combat Comman...
5 years ago
Matt's gaming page (Glenbrook Games)

Pulp commission -
5 years ago
An Intermittent Firefight

Brigade Games Vikings Painted awaiting basing... - Recently, I was commissioned by Brigade Games to paint some of their Viking figures. A total of seventeen figures were sent. Packs 12-19. I started them so...
6 years ago
My Seven Year's War

British SYW Artillery - This is now the start of my earlier expressed intention to arrage a number of scale drawings illustrating British ordnance fielded during the War of Aust...
6 years ago
The Historical Miniaturist

The Royal Navy Marines, Part 2 - To continue, Redcoats on the Royal Navy Marines always look so intimidating on the table... Crew (can be used as Privateers or even Pirates) Marines and ...
6 years ago
Iron Cross Miniatures - News Blog

New: 80mm mortar (Granatwerfer 34) with crew - We are proud to present the 80mm mortar with crew! The Granatwerfer 34 (or GrW 34) was the standard medium infantry mortar for the whole German army thro...
6 years ago
Raglan's Samurai Wars

Mori Samurai Cavalry - *Westwind and Perry Miniatures*
6 years ago
Einar Olafson Painting

The Id, grey aliens - Lucid Eye Id.
6 years ago
Wargamer Blue

Kicking it with the Homies - The feared El Taco Cartel homies are kicking it Southside, plotting and scheming on ways to get product across or under the border. Figures are 28mm S...
6 years ago
Dragon Rising, Bear Resurgent

Modelling - Stowing USMC vehicles in 6mm - Vehicles in most armies carry a degree of external stowage and there always seems to be more of it when they are on operations rather than exercises, ...
6 years ago
Italian Wars Flags

Sir Rys ap Thomas - hi, here's the latest flagsheet which is sir Rhys ap Thomas, cheers and thanks for looking
6 years ago
The Veteran Wargamer

Ep 43: Undercoat it black is live! - Ep 43: Undercoat it black https://soundcloud.com/user-989538417/ep-43-undercoat-it-black Neil Schuck and Jay talk about gaming the Vietnam War. Follow Nei...
6 years ago
15mm paint shack

Painting a Sorrel horse Tutorial -
6 years ago
Eldritch Epistles

Questoris Knight Magaera update and Sons of Horus Legion Sicaran Battle Tank - I've made some progress on the Questoris Knight Magaera: ...and started another Forge World project, a Sons of Horus Legion Sicaran Battle Tank: These b...
6 years ago
The lead mountain

A new journey begins - After much consideration I have decided to take the plunge and begin offering my services as a wargames miniatures painter. It's been quite a journey and...
7 years ago
Cold War Gamer

Review - Book, AFM Volume 2, Part 2, A Treatise on Soviet Operational Art - This was a truly great find by Andy Miles who kindly posted it onto the Red Storm Rising facebook page. It's not quite the British equivalent to the FM...
7 years ago
Red Storm Rising

Gaming the Falklands war - part one - Sometime last week me and a mate were chatting about the Falklands war and what types of kit the British and Argentinians had and their platoon structu...
7 years ago
Aut Caesar, Aut Nihil

Boronzio's Guns. - A little off subject but because the crews and guns fit perfectly for the renaissance period I thought I should show followers the final paint job on my...
7 years ago
Mickey's Minis' Blog

- Hi All, Christmas is almost upon us & Ive completed my last commission of the year! More Kappadokians to add to the army I painted earlier this year & a sm...
7 years ago
CODENAME: Wargaming!

Moja banda do TNT - Witam! Jesień mija, nadchodzi zima, a to bardziej zachęca do odwiedzin dzikich i palących bezmiarów radioaktywnych krain i post-apokaliptycznych bitew. Wł...
7 years ago
Par la bouche de mes canons

The Enemy, part II (80s Pulp) - *File name, unknown. * *Primary military specialty: Infantry* *Secondary military specialty : Sabotage* *Five of the nameless, faceless legions of Cobra com...
7 years ago
Modern Warfare

12th legion Angry Boiz - While working on the noble lads of the azure 13th, I was also expanding the footprint of their temperamental cousins in the 12th. At this point this is my ...
7 years ago
World War II Central

More photos of past painting :) - And... here are some more. Pacific USN early war and late war.
7 years ago
Luke: hoti to kratistos

Some BBDBA - For a change of focus, we pulled out Rhys' 15th-century figures to give them an outing using DBA, version 2; I'm not sure if either of us own a copy of ver...
7 years ago
Modern Wars in Miniature

15mm Tanks added to my collection - A Zvezda Stug-IIIb, painted and decaled as a vehicle from the Grossdeutschland Regiment Zvezda Panzer 38T's ready to roll off to the Russian Front. My ...
7 years ago
The Wargaming Depot

Roads Reflocked - I bought a tonne of roads and rivers from an eBay seller called Fat Frank. They are great but I didn't realise they would come already painted and flocked ...
8 years ago
Zinnsoldatengeneral 1

ACW - Kleines Bilder Update 10th Indiana Regiment Berdan Sharpshooters 146th New Yourk Volunteers 30th Virginia sharpshooters Louisiana Tiger Zouaves
8 years ago
Impetus News

Basic Impetus 2 - Basic Impetus 2 is now available, both printed and digital. The printed version will be available through our shop after Christmas holidays but in the mea...
8 years ago
Cjcaston's 4FPM

Ivar the Boneless - Este es el primer tutorial que hago y voy a intentar que sea lo más ameno y útil posible, tanto en los consejos como en los colores y mezclas a utilizar. L...
8 years ago
Atomic Skies

Atomic-Powered Tanks, Part 1 - An atomic-powered tank is a terrible idea. But that's never kept people from trying. You may have noticed the "part 1" in the title of this post. This...
8 years ago
WARGAMING THE AGE OF WARS

Samurai project rebooted! - Samurai Project has been rebooted! first three figures shown below. Not sure what rules set I will be using, just enjoying the painting at the moment :) ...
8 years ago
Fife & Drum Miniatures

AWI Hessians Are Available For Sale - Hessian Grenadier and Musketeer firing line figures. The AWI Hessians are now in stock and they are ready for on-line sales today (Friday July 8, 2016...
8 years ago
Lead Death

Battle of Borodino 6mm Part 2 - Hello again, This is the continuation of our 6mm Borodino battle fought using Adler 6mm and the Blucher rule set. We fought part one 2 weeks ago and unfo...
8 years ago
wars in miniature

Nuevos Rumbos - Despues de un año sin tocar el blog, vuelvo. Durante este tiempo he iniciado un nuevo rumbo, nuevo trabajo, nuevo pais, nueva vida. Ahora residiendo en Chi...
9 years ago
Horse and Musket Wargaming.

ACW 8th South Carolina update. - Hope you all had a good Xmas. Just a quick update on the 8th Carolina. All the figures have been painted, just waiting on the flag and base work. It's com...
9 years ago
Very Tiny Wars

Mrs. History PhD's new FOW project - Having said that she was ready to begin a new Vietnam War vehicle, Mrs. History PhD has chosen to recreate her 1/285 South Vietnamese National Police Field...
9 years ago
Diniums Loft

Waterloo, Braine l'Alleud - Was lucky enough to visit the Waterloo battlefield in Belgium last week, it has been on my bucket list for a long time. I wasn’t disappointed, 200 years ...
10 years ago
STEEL FIST

Price rise on decal sets - my decal supplier has put the price of decals up, so I'm going to have to pass that price on. So now decal sets are going to be £4.00 each. Also I'm pleased...
10 years ago
Back to the Minis

Protect the King! - "Oh stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, trusting their words." For me these words entered legend in my youth. The 300 Spartans fighting fo...
10 years ago
Þorsteinn á Heiðini

Secret Santa, Year Three - I have been remiss about posting. I always tell myself I need to, but yet don't find the time to. Once more, I will change that. ;) Secret Santa is comin...
10 years ago
Mitch's Wargaming and Modelmaking

Royal Yugoslav Air Force Hawker Fury II - Here's my latest effort: a Hawker Fury II in the markings of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force. The Fury was, of course, an iconic fighter of the 1930's RAF, ...
10 years ago
6mm Wargamer

Life, Life, life! - *Well *its been over a year and unsurprisingly this has been as a result of life! That old enemy kept getting in the way of me and my hobby. Changing jobs,...
10 years ago
Geektactica

Legends of the Old West: Playing with New Objective Cards - Some of you might be familiar with the Secret Objective card system I developed for *Chaos in Carpathia*. I decided to try a similar (yet completely differ...
10 years ago
Too Much Free Time

D&D Fifth Ed. Starter Box - Another package waiting for me today when I arrived home from work; the D&D fifth edition starter box. A bit of an impulse buy when I ordered it, but a...
10 years ago
DECODED: The Cold War in Europe 1945-1995

Commandant's Corner Update 6 July 2014 - Greetings Cold War Enthusiasts, It has been a while since I have been able to contribute articles to this site as I would like but I wanted to stop by and ...
10 years ago
The Inevitable Spark

Taking Stock - After six months of being away I needed to take stock of where I am on my Punic Wars project and set some new goals for getting some things completed. I ha...
10 years ago
Stopping the Red Tide - Wargaming in 15mm

My House Move - As some of the longer term readers will know, I've been waiting for my new house to be completed... Well it's finally done and I've moved in, but you guys...
11 years ago
Akrotiri Nomads Wargames

Nomads move - Seven Years War Journeying to Stockport Home, & Seven Year War set up
11 years ago
Painting Landsknechts

Gallery - Here we have some individual and group photographs from my collection which should give you an idea of the possibilities and colour combinations that work...
12 years ago
Little Soldiers

Happy New Year 2013 - Happy New Year to you all. Due to the illness and subsequent passing of my dear sister Kate this blog and my Arctic Strike blog have been neglected. Now 20...
12 years ago
Across the Table:

Moving Locations - Well, the title says it all. I've decided to revamp my websites and as part of this "Across the Table" is on the move. To visit my revised site please vis...
12 years ago
Peeler's Wargaming & Wittering Page

Byzarbia at Ayton Game. - Once again it's been a while, though in my defence I plead that I have been busy painting figures for our second Ayton Weekend Game, even forgoing two of o...
12 years ago
1%FUTURE

Alternative models: Zvezda "The Beast" - Now here's something really different. It got posted on Dakkadakka in a discussion about Russian plastics and immediately drew my eye. Apparently it used t...
12 years ago
Raglan's War of the Roses

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