Cold War

Starting my BAOR 20mm for the upcoming coldwar gone hot supplement ,first up are 3 chieftans one of which is sporting the natty Berlin Regiment Urban Camo .Just seen some pics of the real thing and the effect against buildings was amazing. http://baor-locations.co.uk/AVeh.aspx
All are Latayo  Diecasts

Xmas Poem

A poem forwarded to me by John Grayson.




T'WAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS,




HE LIVED ALL ALONE,



IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE,



MADE OF PLASTER AND STONE.





I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY,



WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE,



AND TO SEE JUST WHO,



IN THIS HOME, DID LIVE.





I LOOKED ALL ABOUT,



A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE,



NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS,



NOT EVEN A TREE.





NO STOCKING BY MANTLE,



JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND,



ON THE WALL HUNG PICTURES,



OF FAR DISTANT LANDS.





WITH MEDALS AND BADGES,



AWARDS OF ALL KINDS,



A SOBER THOUGHT,



CAME THROUGH MY MIND.





FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT,



IT WAS DARK AND DREARY,



I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER,



ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY.





THE SOLDIER LAY SLEEPING,



SILENT, ALONE,



CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR,



IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME.





THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE,



THE ROOM IN DISORDER,



NOT HOW I PICTURED,



A TRUE BRITISH SOLDIER.





WAS THIS THE HERO,

OF WHOM I'D JUST READ?



CURLED UP ON A PONCHO,

THE FLOOR FOR A BED?





I REALISED THE FAMILIES,



THAT I SAW THIS NIGHT,



OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS,



WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT.





SOON ROUND THE WORLD,



THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY,



AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE,



A BRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY.





THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM,



EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR,



BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS,



LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE.





I COULDN'T HELP WONDER,



HOW MANY LAY ALONE,



ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE,



IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME.





THE VERY THOUGHT BROUGHT,



A TEAR TO MY EYE,



I DROPPED TO MY KNEES,



AND STARTED TO CRY.





THE SOLDIER AWAKENED,



AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE,



"SANTA DON'T CRY,



THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE;





I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM,



I DON'T ASK FOR MORE,



MY LIFE IS MY GOD,



MY COUNTRY, MY CORPS...."





THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER,



AND DRIFTED TO SLEEP,



I COULDN'T CONTROL IT,



I CONTINUED TO WEEP.





I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS,



SO SILENT AND STILL,



AND WE BOTH SHIVERED,



FROM THE COLD NIGHT'S CHILL.





I DID NOT WANT TO LEAVE,



ON THAT COLD, DARK, NIGHT,



THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR,



SO WILLING TO FIGHT.





THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER,



WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE,



WHISPERED, "CARRY ON SANTA,



IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY, ALL IS SECURE."





ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH,

AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT.



"MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND,

AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT."





This poem was written by a Peacekeeping soldier stationed overseas. The following is his request. I think it is reasonable



PLEASE. Would you do me the kind favour of sending this to as many people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to all of the service men and women for our being able to celebrate these festivities. Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe. Make people stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves for us. Please, do your small part to plant this small seed.

Motörhead - 1916

16 years old when I went to the war,


To fight for a land fit for heroes,

God on my side, and a gun in my hand,

Chasing my days down to zero,

And I marched and I fought and I bled and I died,

And I never did get any older,

But I knew at the time that a year in the line,

Is a long enough life for a soldier,

We all volunteered, and we wrote down our names,

And we added two years to our ages,

Eager for life and ahead of the game,

Ready for history's pages,

And we brawled and we fought and we whored 'til we stood,

Ten thousand shoulder to shoulder,

A thirst for the Hun, we were food for the gun,

And that's what you are when you're soldiers,



I heard my friend cry, and he sank to his knees,

Coughing blood as he screamed for his mother,

And I fell by his side, and that's how we died,

Clinging like kids to each other,

And I lay in the mud and the guts and the blood,

And I wept as his body grew colder,

And I called for my mother and she never came,

Though it wasn't my fault and I wasn't to blame,

The day not half over and ten thousand slain,

And now there's nobody remembers our names,

And that's how it is for a soldier.

Thanks

Recieved this from the Royal British Legion , and would like to thank everyone that has made a donation  or has sponsored me in anyway or just given moral support ,Thank you.



Dear Mr Holden,



Over the past few weeks the nation has united in respect to remember the fallen. Poppies have bloomed and our volunteer army has been out in force on a high street near you.



On Sunday 14th November, as the time neared 11.00am, the Poppy-wearing crowds, gathered in London around the Cenotaph, waited expectantly. On the stroke of 11.00am Big Ben chimed and a hush fell over the usual clamour of the city. For two minutes people of all ages remembered the courage of those men and women who lost their lives during conflict. Many thought of family, friends and comrades, while others simply bowed their heads in respect for all who made the ultimate sacrifice.



Then, the band struck up and the 10,000 strong column of veterans began the annual march past the Cenotaph, applauded all the way.



This year we are hoping to raise a record-breaking £36 million from the Poppy Appeal. So far the figures are promising and I hope that we will meet this target. Of course the more we raise the more we can do to support our veterans young and old.



Once again, thank you for all your support of the 2010 Poppy Appeal, let's hope that together we can raise the money we need to help those that need it most.



With best wishes,





Russell Thompson OBE

Director of National Events and Fundraising

Raffle and Remembrance

This past weekend saw the Drawing of the raffle to raise funds for the British legion , All the prizes have been claimed and collected and a lot of happy wargamers left with some lovely prizes. I would like to thank the following people and traders , John Grayson for helping out at this years events , John Skotulanski and his staff at Wargames Emporium for their support ,loan of shop ,allowing the internet sale of tickets and for their sponsership. Shaun ,Peggy and Robbie at Ambush Alley games for their amazing support  and sponsership and to all the other traders ,Warlord Games , Baccus , S&S ,Caliver Books, Irregular Miniatures ,Osprey Publishing , Two Fat lardies , Gripping Beast, West wind Games  and North Star miniatures ,and of course evry  single person who bought a ticket ,thank you.

Yesterday I was proud to attend the remembrance Sunday service at IWM Duxford ,which is an amazing place place on a normal day but Yesterday was a moving tribute to our fallen personnel from past conflicts. Thank you all for helping raise funds , but please remember our dead and injured Service Men and Women and their families need support everyday ,keep donating.

Raffle Draw

Just a final reminder that the draw for our raffle in support of the Royal British Legion is this coming Saturday the 13th of November at 1PM in the Wargames Emporium ,Orchard square Sheffield, Tickets are still on sale in the Shop and on line untill the time of the draw .£1.00 for 5 tickets ,fantastic prizes and most importantly every penny raised goes to the Legion whose support to our  service men and women and thier family's from all conflicts is never ending.

Thank you.

Requiem for a Soldier

Participation Game

Hi thanks to everyone who came down yesterday to play the game or buy Raffle tickets and help the Royal British Legion . Thanks to John Grayson for helping out as usual John for letting us use the Wargames Emporium it was nice to chat to all the gamers I hadn,t seen for a while Tim ,Ian and John (another one) especially thanks for your support.I did take some photos but seem to have deleted them ? .

WIP Malaya

Hi nearly finished my Royal Hampshires for the Malayan Emergency .Just the basing to finish off and then onto the Ghurkas . I have always liked the Britannia range but Daves new 28mm Inkerman range is fantastic.

Battle of Britain Day by Day

I,m ashamed to say that I have only recently found this blog,and it's fantastic so much research and hard work is put into it ,I have learnt so much from it and so far not been bored by anything on it .Everyone should have a look even if this period is not your thing.

http://battleofbritainblog.com/

Participation Game

Hi we will be running a FOF participation game on sat 6th November at Wargames Emporium Sheffield to raise funds for the Royal British Legion and to give people the chance to look at the Prizes and buy tickets for the Raffle drawn the following Saturday.


The game will be using the successful 10 Liner scenario we ran at triples this year , based on the Render safe scenario in Operation Uruzgan and a article on the MOD web site about how British EOD units work in Afghanistan.
For details on the raffle follow the headings above for details of the Wargames Emporium  and Ambush Alley games please follow the links below

The game in progress at Triples 2010. (actually it,s the game nearest the camera during a break, we ran two games side by side )

2011 event poster

Hammerhead & Triples 2011

We have now 2 definite shows confirmed for 2011 where we will be putting on participation games to raise funds for the Royal British Legion ,these are Hammerhead at Newark in February and Sheffield Triples ,links below .Thanks and hope to see you there.

http://www.hammerhead.org.uk/

In Flanders Fields

by John McCrae, May 1915



In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

we shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

Sturmovik Commander

As mentioned earlier those great chaps at Sturmovik Commander have allowed us to use their rules in our British Legion fund Raising campaign, but now they have made a nice contribution by sponsering us with some very nice models,and scenery for our games plus advirtising as well can I just thank them along with our other sponsers for helping us so much and ask everyone to follow the link in our sonsers Section to the Sturmovik Commanders web page and they have a very useful yahoo group as well. Thank you Marcin and team. The Rules are free to download and are very playable ,you do not need loads of models or be a mechanical genius to build flight stands and they have loads of back up stuff ,like scenarios ,add on rules for almost everything you can think of and they are a "Living rule set" in other words constantly being added to and improved ,and the team  encourage feed back from players.

Here are a few cards I have designed for UK forces replacing the USA orientated wording on  the AA and FOF Asset cards .When I am satisfied with them and hace a full set I will willingly send them to any one who drops me a line.

RAF Memorial

The plaque in Newark dedicated to all who served from the many Airfields around the area. We will be running WW2 Air combat games to raise funds for The Royal British Legion using the Sturmovik Commander rules ,just to remind everyone that The Legion gives support to all branches of our armed forces from all conflicts past and present.

Malayan Emergency

I was looking for a new period to play for myself but that would tie in with my Fundraising for the Royal British Legion and for use with Ambush alley's Force on Force.I looked at ww11 which is a favourite period of mine ,but already on show at most convention's .I wanted something a little different and out of the blue came Inkerman castings Malayan range , a superb range that promises to cover everything needed and a fascinating conflict .Using force on force Ambush Valley add on , I will field the Communist terrorists as the lists for Viet Cong Main Force ,with D8 troop quality and D8 Morale ,but with the poorly supplied rule .This represents the fact that at least the CT's leaders where well trained and used to fightiing in that area during the second world war , and the fact that after the first few months the supplies began to dry up due to increased security force numbers and the hearts and minds policy that was brought in. The special rules Ambush , Lack of initiative ,poor communication Elusive foe ,victory through blood , Reinforce and Fight another day ,will also be used.
The Commonwealth forces will be classed as ANZACS with TQ D10 and M D10 (this may change in some scenarios to represent a force with a large number of national service men rather than regulars) he special rule Rules of engagement will be used.

As yet I have not decided on Morale and TQ for the Police units and plantation owners ,any help appreciated.

For more info on the Malayan Emergency read  The War of the Running Dogs by Noel Barber and there a couple of links in my links section as well. The Inkerman range can be seen at the Brittania miniatures site .

Better pictures and samples are regulary seen on the ambush Alley Forum. I hope to put up some better photos as soon as possible.

Sturmovik Commander

Hi  after recently finding these great rules ,I have spoken to Marcin Gerkowicz and he has allowed us to use these rules as part of our fundraising efforts for the Royal British Legion. So the plan for games next year are: Ambush Alley using Britsh and Taliban forces as this year plus ,Force on Force for the Malayan Emergency and World War 2 Aircombat using Sturmovik Commander .Please take a look at this fantastic rule set that is fully supported with extras and scenarios ,a great web site http://www.sturmovik-commander.com/ and a yahoo group http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/sturmovik-commander/?yguid=185532224 .

The Town that never forgets

From Royal British Legion suppporters letter
Sept 2010

" It happened spontaneously. Three years ago a lone Hearse containing a flag-draped coffin passed slowly along Wootton Bassett High street .By chance three men- one of whom is a local British Legion member -were there. They stood to attention.It was only later they discovered it was a fallen soldier who been repatriated at neaby RAF Lyneham .
At the next repatriation the numbers of people payng their respects grew, and so it continued .Now with the numbers of young service men and women who have died whilst defending our freedom in Afghanistan reaching over 320 ,the pavements of this small wiltshire market town are six deep with townspeople paying their repects at each repatriation".

In honour of the towns repatriations The Royal British legion is to open a Field of rememberance dedicated to all those who have lost their lives in Afghanistan.A member of the Royal Family will open the Field of Rememberance on 9th November 2010 inWootten Bassett.

Remember them please support the Royal British Legion .

Britannia Mongoose comparison

Britannia Jackle & Mongoose technical

Britannia Afghans next to a Mongoose technical

The mongoose is slightly slimmer

Side by side

The Mongoose kit kindly sent by Matakishi visit his amazing site http://www.matakishi.com/index.htm

On a recent thread on the Ambush Alley forum it was mentioned that Mongoose publishing was getting rid of some of their ranges, including the battlefield evolution range .I was interested in the technicals that were being sold off at £4.99 for three ,so on the AA forum I asked if any one knew if they 20mm scale , going one better Matakishi sent me three he no longer required ,and here they are , plus some comparison shots with the 20mm Technical sold by Britannia and with some of 20mm afghans and a Jackle also from Britannia . A good match I think.

Raffle update.

Raffle update

* Irregular Miniatures £5.00 gift voucher*
SIGNED COPIES OF ALL AMBUSH ALLEY IN PRINT BOOKS - Ambush Alley - Force on Force - Ambush Valley -Day of the Rangers - Operation Uruzgan - Ambush Z*
Caliver Books- a 5 issue subscription to Battle Games Magazine*
Two Fat Lardies 1 each of : through the mud and the blood -Charlie don't surf -Bag the Hun- Le Fau Sacre*
West Wind have donated 1 of each of:Secrets of the 3rd Reich Rule book-German zombies pack 1-German zombies pack 3 -Doomsday book*
Baccus 5 prizes : 1 x French 1806-1812 army pack- Polemos acw- Polemos Napoleonic- Polemos Franco Prussian war- Polemos Napoleonic companion*
North star 1 x 28mm fallschirmjager 24 figure box set*
Osprey 2x Fields of Glory Renaissance rule book 2 x war of religion*
S&S - 28 mm panzer 4 - 28mm jeep28mm - 75mm howitzer*
Warlord GamesBox set of Waffen ssBox set of Roman VeteransFallschirmjager Tank hunters blisterBox set of Scottish HighlandersBox of ECW cuirrassiersPak 40 blister pack81 mm morter blister pack*
Gripping Beast – 1 x BRIT08 – 1 x ANZAC 08 – 1 x HVA04 – 1 x VIK24
Grubby Tanks 1 x painted 20 mm tiger 11

41 individual Prizes up for grabs.
TICKETS :£1.00 for a strip of five tickets =£1.00 5 chances to win on sale from Wargames Emporium Sheffield store only
John Grayson and myself at clubs and shows etc.
What do you win : what you want you pick be in Wargames Emporium for the draw and if your ticket comes out you pick from the prizes that are left, if you cant be there jot down your first 3 choices and leave with your ticket seller
when and where is the draw Wargames Emporium ,13th November 2010.

TICKETS NOW ON SALE ON LINE @ http://www.wargamesemporium.com/


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Scotland

A few more pics. top to bottom ,Jedburgh Castle Prison, Craigmiller Castle ,

Part of the Black watch Monument Edinburgh, Loch Leven castle H5VD3PE4MYG5

Ambush Alley Prizes

Hi pics of the prizes from shawn and Peggy ,each one signed as well .with the osprey editions coming out soon these are real collectors items as well as damn good games.

Aeroventure Doncaster

Hi we will be running participation games of AA and FOF at Doncaster Air museum on 5th Sept 10.00-14.00 to raise funds for the Royal British Legion ,raffle tickets also on sale

. The museum will have all its regular exhibits but a special display celebrating the willys jeep. http://www.aeroventure.org.uk/index.php

Thanks

Scotland

Just returned from a lovely holiday in Scotland ,post some interesting pics soon .The raffle tickets are selling well so make sure you get yours now .

Part of the Black Watch Monument

Raffle tickets on line

Thanks to wargames Emporium tickets for our raffle to aid the royal British Legion are now available on line, please be aware that this at the moment is only on the old web site
http://www.wargamesemporium.com/

the service will be on the new site soon

Also be aware if you win any prizes and require them posting P&P will have to be covered by yourself.

Raffle -all the latestdetails

Hi just to stop you hunting through my Blog ,all the details are in this post (I think? )
Prizes and Sponsers:

* Irregular Miniatures £5.00 gift voucher
* SIGNED COPIES OF ALL AMBUSH ALLEY IN PRINT BOOKS - Ambush Alley - Force on Force - Ambush Valley -Day of the Rangers - Operation Uruzgan - Ambush Z

* Caliver Books- a 5 issue subscription to Battle Games Magazine
* Two Fat Lardies 1 each of : through the mud and the blood -Charlie don't surf -Bag the Hun- Le Fau Sacre
* West Wind have donated 1 of each of:
Secrets of the 3rd Reich Rule book-
German zombies pack 1-
German zombies pack 3 -
Doomsday book
* Baccus 5 prizes : 1 x French 1806-1812 army pack- Polemos acw- Polemos Napoleonic- Polemos Franco Prussian war- Polemos Napoleonic companion
* North star 1 x 28mm fallschirmjager 24 figure box set
* Osprey 2x Fields of Glory Renaissance rule book 2 x war of religion
* S&S - 28 mm panzer 4 - 28mm jeep28mm - 75mm howitzer
*Warlord Games
Box set of Waffen ss
Box set of Roman Veterans
Fallschirmjager Tank hunters blister
Box set of Scottish Highlanders
Box of ECW cuirrassiers
Pak 40 blister pack
81 mm morter blister pack
*Gripping Beast – 1 x BRIT08 – 1 x ANZAC 08 – 1 x HVA04 – 1 x VIK24
Grubby Tanks 1 x painted 20 mm tiger 11

41 individual Prizes up for grabs.
TICKETS :
£1.00 for a strip of five tickets =£1.00 5 chances to win
on sale from Wargames Emporium Sheffield store only
John Grayson and myself at clubs and shows etc.
What do you win : what you want you pick be in Wargames Emporium for the draw and if yor ticket comes out you pick from the prizes that are left, if you cant be there jot down your first 3 choices and leave with your ticket seller
when and where is the draw Wargames Emporium ,13th November 2010 at 1pm

Ther may be more prizes I did contact over 40 manufacturers but only recieved replies from the ones above, Wargames Emporium are asking the others if they can donate and hoping a stockist might succeed where I failed ,but with the recession etc. who knows ,I will keeep you posted.
And again a big thank you to all the ones that have donted already.

Malayan war

Just managed to get round to basing and undercoating my Inkerman mayalan war Brits ,Ghurkas and communist s and they are fantastic castings ,some poor pics hereonce I've painted a few I will post more. I am going to use Ambush Valley rules just playing with the stats at moment .For the eagle eyed amongst you there are a few zombies in there as well for Ambush Z

Kelham Island 1940's weekend

A couple of pictures of some of Lelhams exhibits

During the school holidays we had a family visit to a local museum called Kelham island ,a city center site of old steel works and the famous little mesters workshops. There was a 1940's weekend in progress when we visited which was great fun and a lot of military exhibits from sheffields war efforts were on display plus a lot of older weapons .During our visit we met an extraordinary chap called Geoff Blore who runs an excellent book store called Dicky Bloods Books .This remakable gent prints and distributes books that focus the ordinary service men and are mainly biographys concerning ww2 I bought a copy of SAVED BY THE BOMB by Brian Carter which covers his story from being a school boy at the start of the war to enlisting with the Navy commanding a landing craft on D-Day and being sent t help with the proposed invasion of Japan. wonderful book ,please visit the website. http://www.dickybloodsbooks.net/.

Prizes

Here are some of the goodies on offer in our Raffle. 41 fantastic prizes that means if you buy 9 strips of tickets you could win the lot for only£9.00 thats a great offer ,plus you will be helping a fantastic charity .

Ambush Alley

The signed books from Ambush Alley will be :

Ambush Alley
Force on Force
Ambush Valley
Day of the Rangers
Operation Uruzgan
Ambush Z

6 fantastic books all signed by Shawn , Peggy and Robby . this takes our prize total to over £600 so get buyingthose tickets only £1.00 for 5 chances to win.

Gripping Beast Prizes

Gripping Beast have donated 4 blister packs to our raffle:
1 x BRIT08 Characters
1 x ANZAC08 Character set 1
1 x HVA04 Ragnar Lothbrok
1 x VIK24 Viking Victory

RAFFLE INFO

Just to keep things clear .....
Tickets are now on sale
£1.00 for a strip of 5 tickets
Tickets can be purchased from Wargames Emporium Orchard Square Sheffield
From Myself and John Grayson as we travel around the wargames clubs we will also be running Participation Ambush Alley games at Doncaster Air Museum on Sept 5th

Draw will be made in the Wargames Emporium At 1.00 pm on sat 13th November 2010
All proceeds to Royal British Legion

More Prizes

Warlord Games have sent a fantastic range of their lovely figures for prizes .
Waffen ss 20 figure box set
Cuirrassiers 12 fig box set
Fallschirmjager 81mm morter & crew Blister
Fallschirmjager PAK 40 & crew Blister
Highland Clansmen 19 figure box set
Imperial Roman Veteren 20 figure box set
Fallschirmjager Tank hunters Blister

Its got to be worth buying a few tickets just for a chance to get these excellent figures.

Tickets on sale

Hi the Raffle tickets for the Royal British Legion go on sale tomorrow at Wargames Emporium in Sheffield and Myself and John Grayson will be taking them around the wargames clubs hoping to sell a few, they will be £1.00 for 5 tickets ,yeah only £1.00 for 5 chances to win some fantastic wargames stuff.

If any clubs in yorkshire would like us to come along one night to answer questions on Ambush Alley games and hopefully raise funds please let me know either via this blog or Ambush Alley forum or my email Hrichard77@aol.com. full prize listing up soon

Ambush Alley Games

Hi ,Irregular Miniatures have kindly donated a £5.00 gift voucher as a prize in our raffle and just to correct a error I made earlier The Prizes from Osprey are the new Fields of Glory RENAISSANCE RULE BOOK and 1st army list book WARS OF RELIGION WESTERN EUROPE.

pic: Jerusalem Cemetary Normandy

more goodies

ambush alley game

A part of the Wall at the National Arboretum

More prizes for the raffle S&S Models have kindly donated 3 28mm items ,a pz4d ,a willys jeep and a 75mm us pack howitzer . these three prizes bring the retail value of prizes to over £400.

Prizes updates 14th July

Just a complete list of whats up for grabs and from who, in no particular order:::

Ambush alley - 1 each of their in print books , signed by the Alley team each drawn as a seperate prize.

Caliver Books- a 5 issue subscription to Battle Games Magazine

Two Fat Lardies 1 each of :

through the mud and the blood

Charlie don't surf

Bag the Hun

Le Fau Sacre

West Wind have donated 1 of each of:

Scecrets of the 3rd reich Rule book

german zombies pack 1

german zombies pack 3

Doomsday book

Baccus 5 prizes from Peter:

1 x French 1806-1812 army pack

Polemos acw

PolemosNapoleonic

Polemos Franco Prussian war

Polemos Napoleonic companion

Northstar 1 x 28mm fallschirmjager 24 figure box set

Osprey 1x Fields of Gory
1 x war of religion


with more products on the way from Gripping beast and sands models we are heading for almost £400 worth of prizes

Prizes

WOW an amazing prize Ambush Alley are donating one of each of thier books all signed by the Ambush Alley team. I WANT THEM MYSELF!!!

Prize update number 2

Hi Osprey Publishing have joined our long list of helpers by donating 2 Prizes :
1 x Fields of Glory Rulebook
1 x War of Religion

keep watching.

Prize Update

I will start listing the prizes as I recieve them or as they are confirmed by the company making the donation.So far we have:
1 x 5 issue subcription to battlegames magazine donated by caliver books
1 x Through the mud and blood donated by Two fat lardies
1 x Le Fau sacre Donated by Two fat Lardies
1 x Bag the Hun Donated by Two Fat Lardies
1 x Charlie Don't Surf Donted by two fat Lardies
plus items on the way from Baccus ,Sands Models, west wind ,Gripping beast and North star just to name a few...WATCH THIS SPACE

Royal British Legion Raffle

hi ,back to fundraising and we now have started getting the first prizes from wargaming manufacturers ,so in no particular order we already have items from the following manufacturers: Two Fat Lardies ,Ambush Alley , Baccus, Gripping Beast ,S&S , Caliver Books and North Star with hopefully lots more to come.So far we have over £200.00 worth of prizes ,tickets go on sale the end of this month and the draw will be November 11th .More Details Soon

isle of man

Great place I'm lucky enough to get to work out there every now and again ,fantastic scenary and museums

walking

Hi been kept busy ,just started a new business and looking to a new future when my ex-business colleagues who nearly destroyed my life dragged me into another mess without me knowing,so loads of solicitors bills.Anyway heres some pics of recent walks and some normandy battlefield pics.Hope ypu enjoy