Take up musket and sabre, and ready your forces for action. There, my lord is your enemy! There are your guns! Attack! The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, immortalised in verse by Lord Tennyson, will forever stand as a shining example of military incompetence and aristocratic blundering. For many people, this single, bloody…
“Someone has blunder’d” – Wargaming the Crimean War with Black Powder: Take up musket and sabre, and ready your forces for action. There, my lord is your enemy! There are your guns! Attack! The Complete Crimean War 1853-1856 View Collection in Store “Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All…
Crimean War Russian Line Infantry Includes: 27 Russian Line Infantry View in Store Crimean War Russian infantry Backpacks Includes: 24 metal Russian Infantry backpacks View in Store Crimean War Russian Brigade Expand into the ailing Ottoman Empire with your Russian armies Includes: 81 Russian Line Infantry View in Store Crimean War Russian…
In this pilot profile series, we’ll be looking at each of the aces released for Blood Red Skies, their exploits and their abilities in your games. Continuing with Russian ace Lydia ‘Lilya’ Litvyak. Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak (Лидия Владимировна Литвяк, (August 18, 1921 in Moscow – August 1, 1943 in Krasnyi Luch), also known as Lilya,…
The Russian and German air forces clash as they fight for control of the skies over Eastern Europe in the Blood Red Skies Battle for Russia set: View in Store The battle of Russia contains: 1 x Blood Red Skies Box Game 1 x German Ace Pilot Adolf Galland set 1 x German BF ME-109 Squadron…
The Motherland will not fall with the new Russian Defence of the homeland force on hand. Pre-Order in Store The Russian Defence of the homeland force contains: 1 x Soviet Ace Pilot Lydia Litvyak set 1 x Soviet Yak1 Squadron set 1 x Soviet Blood Red Skies Dice set Beneath is a breakdown of what…
We spotted this inspiring vignette by Jason Buffin and had to show off his skills; By Jason Buffin A particular picture stood out to me which was of a Russian officer being dragged back to safety after being wounded in the field. The challenge was to see if I could simulate this piece of art and…
This week Andy Singleton of Volleyfire Painting looks at those two eastern front nemesis of the late war era, the Panzer IV Ausf H and the T34/85. Both of these tanks are very similar in performance, but also have a few interesting options as well. The Panzer IV Panzer IV’s were the longest serving…
Andy Singleton of Volley Fire Painting Services has been scrubbing up his brushes and sharpening knives as he delves into the background of 2 iconic mainstays of the German and Russian armies SU-76 Vs Marder III Andy: Today I’m looking at two light-weight self-propelled guns of the German and Russian armies. The Russian Su-76, and…
Having recently had the opportunity to challenge Rick Priestley to a Game of Bolt Action I packed up a German force and trekked across to Ricks Barn for a bit of a bash against his Russians & whilst there put the question to him; Why Russians? ‘Why Russians then?’ asks young Carlisle as he struggles…
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