Balagan Military History and Wargaming
Wargaming, and Military
History, is
the interest I pour most of my spare time into.
Check
out Alan Millicheap’s site for a good description of this hobby, and why one
person chooses to spend his time on it.
Currently
I'm keen on the Crossfire rules although I've quite a
few Armies for other periods and sets. Based
on emails I
receive, people seem interested in my material on the Carlist
Wars, Spanish Civil War and Blue
Division (WW2). I've just started putting more energy in my New Zealand
section, and in particular the WW2
bit.
What's New
Crossfire
My Crossfire
pages are changing all the time so check there for specifics.
15 Jun 2008: Royalists in Chile
I updated my 1817-18
Chilean Project with the plans for the Royalists.
17 May 2008: Argentine Army of the Andes
Roland has started completing figures for my Argentine
Army of the Andes in the 1817-18
Chilean Project.
16 Apr 2008: Ebro
Offensive
Inspired by Martin Rapier's article
" The Battle of the Ebro, July 1938: A
Spanish Civil War Megablitz Scenario" I created the Ebro
Offensive (Jul 1938) based on the Offensive
rules.
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Apr 2008: Converting Ansar to Riffi
I've been struggling to find
Riffi figures to use for the Rif War so I decided to Convert Ansar
Figures into Riffi.
I also finished rereading Shannon Fleming's Primo
de Rivera and Abd-el-Krim: The Struggle in Spanish Morocco, 1923-1927 and
updating my chronology for the Rif War.
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Mar 2008: Patriot Flags for 1817-18
I couldn't figure out which flags to use for which units in the 1817-18
Chilean Project so I thought I'd summarise the various bits of information
and give my best guess for the Patriot Flags.
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Mar 2008: Carlist War Gallery of New Stuff
I wanted to share some of my new Carlist War photos, so created a Carlist
War Gallery of New Stuff. The first batch includes my pride and joy -
the Carlist Band!
22 Mar 2008: Basing for the Liberators Quick Play Rules (QPR)
I updated my page on Basing for the
Liberators Quick Play Rules (QPR) - which I intend to use for my 1817-18
Chilean Campaign Project with diagrams of Detached Grenadier and Cazadore
battalions.
22 Mar 2008: Setting and Rules for the Rif
I added a description of the Setting of the
Rif War and suggestions for Wargaming Rules to use
to for the period.
19 Mar 2008: Rif War
Following directly on from my renewed interest in the Spanish Civil War, I
have seriously updated my material on the Rif
War including
09 Mar 2008: Flocking
Updated my Flocking page to show the range of styles
I've used over time and my current thinking on Flocking
using Sand and Dry brush.
24 Jan 2008: 1817-18 Chilean Campaign Project
The South American Wars of Liberation span an entire continent across 20
years, so I've decided to focus on one campaign hence my 1817-18
Chilean Campaign Project.
23 Jan 2008: South American Wars of Liberation
Inspired by the books put out by John Fletcher of Grenadier
Productions I've started putting together some notes on the South
American Wars of Liberation.
3 Jan 2008: DBA in the New World
I moved this material into a folder of its own and renamed the New
World DBA Index.
1 Jan 2008: Thirty Years War Chronology
Several of the guys and I have got keen on the Thirty
Years War so I started putting together a Thirty
Years War page. Mainly a chronology so far.
23 Nov 2007: Painting Guide - the Black Undercoat Method
I asked Roland Davis to write a painting guide for the Black
Undercoat Method. The vast majority of my figures use this method and
Roland is a master of the technique.
21 Oct 2007: DBA/HOTT Camp Mini-Campaign
Inspired by an article by Steve Burt I wrote up some rules for a small DBA/HOTT
Camp Mini-campaign. Essentially small force, based in a camp, is
blocking an enemy force's attempt to break an off-table siege. Chris
Harrod and I are play testing.
22 Sep 2007: Painting Guides for the Napoleonic Period
I got all keen and wrote up a painting guide for Napoleonic
Spanish Cavalry, 1st
Volunteers of Aragon Light Infantry, French
13th Cuirassiers, British
Infantry, and British
Allies.
11 Aug 2007: Kongo and Angola 1500-1700
I was thinking about my New World DBA
and started to put together a chronology for The Kingdom of Kongo and Colony of Angola.
4 Aug 2007: Guidelines for Historical Scenarios using Shako
I've got interested in the Peninsular War and
the Wars of South American Independence again, so started thinking about Shako
Scenarios, and put together some Guidelines
for Historical Scenarios using Shako.
14 May 2007: Galleries for Britannia 600 AD
We played out the Britannia
600 AD campaign and I put together some galleries for Alba, Mercia,
Northumbria, Powys, Strathclyde,
and Wessex.
10 Mar 2007: Britannia 600 AD
I've always love the Avalon Hill board game called Britannia and thought the
map at least would make a good basis for a DBA/HOTT campaign = Britannia
600 AD.
24 Feb 2007: Cristino Organisation
Updated the Cristino Organisation
page, in particular added a full list of provincial regiments
22 Feb 2007: Cristino Regimental Histories
I translated the Cristino
Regimental Histories from Camacho:
Un siglo de presencia militar en nuestra provincia (1833-1936)
[Spanish].
16 Feb 2007: 3 Greek Mountain Brigade and the Turcomen
Added further description of the Greek and Ostruppen fighting at Rimini
in Sep 1944.
4 Feb 2007: New material on First Carlist War
I just got some more material and started updating my Chronology
for the First
Carlist War. The first one I'm working through is:
Alcalá, C (2006). 1a
Guerra Carlista [ Guerros y Batallas 31]. Madrid: Almena. [Spanish]
22 Oct 2006: Carlist War Scenarios
I started writing up ideas for scenarios in the Chronology
for the First
Carlist War
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Oct 2006: El Mercenario Gallery
El Mercenario sent through photos
of some Carlists he's been painting. They're from the new range by the
Perry Brothers
15 Oct 2006: Castelfrentano to Orsogna
While on holiday recently I outlined the Kiwi
operations from 28 Nov to 7 Dec 1943 as they took Castelfrentano and moved
up tot attack Orsogna for the first time
11 Sep 2006: Coat D'arms conversion chart
I use Coat D'arms paints, so I thought a
conversion table to other painting schemes would be useful
09 Sep 2006: Figures for Colonial Brazil: Tupi etc
Add a Figures page to the
Brazilian area
07 Sep 2006: Painting Guide for Colonial Brazil
Created a Painting Guide for Brazil,
including Tupi and their enemies
01 Sep 2006: Links between Military History and Rules
I updated my Luso-Spanish Military History
page and my Luso-Spanish Empires page to
more clearly show the pages related to military history versus specific rules
30 Aug 2006: Colonial Spanish and Buccaneers
Added the Colonial Spanish and Buccaneers to the Army
Lists for my New World DBA
27 Aug 2006: Chanca and Chimu
Added the Chanca and Chimu to the Army
Lists for my New World DBA
25 Aug 2006:
HOTT in the New World
Added a hint of HOTT to the Army
Lists (plus corrected a couple of mistakes and updated the formatting ) for my
New World DBA
15 Aug 2006: 26 (NZ) Battalion on the Sangro
Restarted work on the Kiwi action on the Sangro
in Nov 1943. Only got as far as 26 Battalion on 28 Nov, but there is more
to come
31 Jul 2006:
Added some more notes to my First
Carlist War page based on Zumalakarregi Museum:
19th Century Military History in the Basque Country .
12 Jul 2006: Portuguese Auxiliary Division
Added some detail on the Portuguese
Auxiliary Division to my First
Carlist War page. Finally I have something about what they did!!!
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Jul 2006: More on Portugal's Liberal Wars
Having acquired quite a lot more material - much of it from Nuno Pereira
- I've updated my page on the 1826-34
(Portugal's) Liberal Wars
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Jul 2006: Cristino gallery
Created galleries for my Cristinos and
British for the First
Carlist War
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Jul 2006: Portuguese from 1833
Added some pictures to the Portuguese
Painting Guide
30 Jun 2006: Split Cristino Painting Guide
Having added a lot of illustrations to the Painting
Guide for the First
Carlist War, I split the Cristino portion to give a quicker download.
Now has Infantry, Cavalry
and Other pages
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Jun 2006: Cristino Painting Guide
A major overall to the Painting
Guide for the Cristinos in the First
Carlist War. Added lots of pictures and more description
21 Jun 2006: Belgian
Corps
Nuno Pereira surprised me by
explaining that Belgium contributed four battalions - the Belgian
Corps - to the Liberal Wars
11 Jun 2006: More
Carlists
Added details from volume 2 of Duncan (1997)
to my account of the First
Carlist War. Only four more volumes to go
Duncan, F. (1997). The
English in Spain: The story of the War of Succession between 1834 and 1840
(Vols. 1-6). UK: Pallas Armata. (Original work published 1877.)
10 Jun 2006: Portuguese Liberal War
Inspired by material on the Viriatus
Miniatures site, I wrote up the precursor to the First
Carlist War, i.e. 1826-34
(Portugal's) Liberal Wars. Also wrote up Portuguese
Organisation in the First Carlist War and a Portuguese
Painting Guide
01 Jun 2006: New Mexico
Started writing up the Spanish conquest of
New Mexico
29 May 2006: Wildly Inspired Miniatures
It seems Wildly Inspired Miniatures are producing again, including their
ranges of NZ Wars figures
19 May 2006: Perano = Kiwi Tanks
Wrote up the Kiwi and Indian attack on Perano,18 Nov
1943. This was the first time New Zealand tanks saw combat
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May 2006: NZ Wars Gallery
Took some snaps of my NZ Wars kit and created a gallery.
Also added a subset of the pics to the painting
guide and figures page
27 Apr 2006: Rules
I updated my reviews of various Rules for the NZ
Wars
I also started typing up my father's Rules
for Naval Warfare 1500 to 1850
25 Apr 2006: Portuguese in Japan
Added a place holder for the Japanese
episode in Portuguese history (or the Portuguese episode in Japanese
history), although really this was an excuse to show
some pictures of my mate Vince's Samurai
24 Apr 2006: Costumes of the Spanish Army, 1859
A long time ago Chris Tubb sent me an article from the Illustrated London News of 1859
entitled "The Costumes of the Spanish Army". I finally added these
details to my page on the First Moroccan War
11 Apr 2006: NZ Military History
Reorganised the New Zealand
section, to include a summary of the various wars we've been involved in,
regrouping the material into folders for NZ Colonial
(Maori) Wars and WW2, and
adding more detail to the WW2 bit - still a long
way to go
07 Mar 2006: Flocking
I'm experimenting with a style of flocking using C1229 Earth.
05 Mar 2006: Complete Revamp
Completely revamped
the Wargaming pages. The gist of this change was to separate all content
related to specific rules - Crossfire, Shako,
DBx - from
other military
history and wargaming content - Luso-Spanish, Arab-Israeli,
New Zealand. Campaign rules are
catalogued with the tactical rules they relate to, but there is a master Campaign
index as well. Apologies to anybody who had links.
Wargame Clubs
North London Wargames Group, Hertfordshire, UK
A club I've just made contact with. Meetings are held on the 2nd and
4th Sunday of each month from 2 PM to 6 PM at St. Joseph's Church Hall, Eleanor Road,
Waltham Cross, UK.
Website: http://www.nlwg.org.uk/
Guildford Wargaming Club, Surrey, UK
These chaps play a variety of games at the club (mostly DBM / DBR). Club
meets Monday night 7.00 -> late at the St Johns Centre (Merrow) Guildford,
UK.
All welcome !!
Website: Guildford
Wargames Club
Manawatu Duellists Society, Palmerston North, NZ
This was my old club in New Zealand (when they were called the Manawatu Miniature
Strategists)
Meet on Thursday night at the Riverdale School hall, Slacks Road, Palmerston North. Website:
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Manawatu_Duellists/
Sources / Links
Fire and Fury - A site focusing on
this rather jolly set of American Civil War rules
Free Wargames
Rules - a entire website of them.
Has a whole bunch of links to free rules sets.
Dave W. of the RFCM discussion forum recommends:
"Where's
Charlie": Vietnam rules by Pete Jones.
"Fire
Force Campaign Rules" Vietnam rules by Martin Porter.
- The Nafziger Collection - George
Nafziger's catalog of Orders of Battle
The
Headquarters of the Perfect Captain
Some free downloads of Renaissance games.
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