There's a reason I walk (or my wife drives)! No such concerns in 1758 at least

Well I guess I'm committed, because a day later I have a 6-by-4-foot Forks of the Ohio (aka The Point) on my table.

What table size does one use for these?

These are making me want to take up super-tiny scales!

3mm Italian Wars miniatures on a miniature landscape of Italy.

3mm Italian Wars project up to date - still to do: black bands, more landsknechts, more missile troops, Spanish Jinetes.

Ooh thanks!

Oh excellent idea. Are the unit frontages also halved in these versions?

It's a handsome book with some good scenarios, although the maps suggest they expect an 8x6 table (which I definitely don't have!). As with a lot of Warlord books, they also seem to assume the player has funds for thousands of 28mm miniatures -- some battles include a *lot* of units.

(In the past I've used Black Powder rules with 18mm Wofun minis for FIW, but it was on the cheap with very little terrain and few minis on the table. I'd like to try again, with more attention to terrain and detail).

Detail of the Wounding of General Braddock, painting by Robert Griffing

Considering working on French and Indian War at a small scale, like 10mm, to recreate forts and battlefields here in Western Pennsylvania. Has anyone wargamed that conflict at small scale?

I'm thankful for advice on basing and rule systems (thinking Black Powder but open to others)! #wargaming

A communist banner waving as soldiers cross the canal

School chums with rifles watch from the second floor of a post office (or do Brits call it the first floor?)

Helmeted soldiers move on a red brick building

Armed postal workers under fire, various chits and markers denoting a bad time

The communist right was cut to pieces by "Old George," the royalists' big gun. The left fared better, crossing the canal and slaughtering a team of untrained postal workers who charged into the field of fire.

Ultimately, the reds were stopped short. A draw (?) but with many dead left in the canal.

28mm miniatures: British soldiers arrayed behind a copse of trees along a canal

A 17-pdr gun and crew, including two WRNS members, stand behind a fenced garden allotment

An armed 1930s British postal worker

Today in Chain of Command, VBCW: Commanded by Trinidadian cricket journalist-turned-revolutionary R.L.C. Jones, communist forces crossed the canal to challenge the royalist militia (including the General Post Office Fusiliers and the young Hotspur Rifles) #wargaming #spreadthelard

The Pitt is Pittsburgh is for Pitt the Elder, so technically it's all the same!

A 28mm scale miniature table with 1930s red brick English town, a river/canal and some scattered trees

A miniature garden allotment with flowers, a shed and an Anderson shelter in the corner

All set for Chain of Command tomorrow: The Bulcaster-Felsbridge Canal, Loamshire, 1938. #wargaming #spreadthelard

Toothpick wicket and Milliput for the final jump-off point! My first-ever use of modeling putty so the bat is a bit wonky, but hey, good enough for a game

Up to five! Decided on a whim to throw a (possibly too tiny and subdued for jump-off purposes?) duck pond into the mix. Thinking of a drinks cabinet for the sixth, but I'll welcome any other suggestions for stereotypically British objects ca. 1938.

Painting 20mm 1940 BEF 1940 BEF Rifleman With my French forces painted , I wanted another force to face the Germans and of course the British Expeditionary For...

If you fancy painting some BEF with some lovely Blanco No. 97 webbing, I have put together a quick guide using Vallejo paints.

#wargaming #chainofcommand #spreadthelard

A 28mm base with a wooden table and stool, and a map and Union flag on top

First of six British Civil War jump-off-points for Chain of Command². Wish I had a tiny tea mug available!

Mexican Revolution 1910-20 - Mexican Federal Infantry, also known as the Federales in popular culture, was the military arm of Mexico. Hollywood provides some cracking movies on this conflict, so loads of scenarios idea without any tedious book reading. Figs from @northstarfigs.bsky.social

A 28mm scale 1930s British car (Austin 10?) and a pair of Home Guard armored vehicles, all looking suitably dusty.

Painted a car and some ad hoc Home Guard vehicles for British Civil War (I figure they're the Brit equivalent of Spanish Civil War homemade armored cars). Not too dissatisfied with my first vehicle attempt! #miniaturepainting #wargaming

Interwar double-decker red bus miniature/toy with a painted placard reading "Remember Cable Street! Workers unite"

Trying to dirty and chip some die-cast vehicles and think up ways to affix signs/placards/banners for British Civil War. Intimidated by the prospect of painting a vehicle from scratch soon -- haven't done it in decades!

Also, if you play wargames in this fictional setting, can't stress enough the benefit of a good playlist with Ray Noble, Al Bowlly, Lew Stone and other music that sounds pleasant but faintly creepy in 2026

28mm fascists with camels advancing on a pub filled with defenders

Chinese interwar soldiers in 28mm, bearing a flag of Saint Edmund with George crosses

A general melee of Chinese, fascist and other combatants on a road

4x6 foot battlefield with pub, farm, hedgerows and a main road

Today's British Civil War 1938 battle in Chain of Command².

A force of Imperial Fascist League camel dragoons probed Anglican defenses and nearly dislodged them with grenades, but Chinese convert volunteers heroically held the pub and drove them back at bayonet-point. #wargaming #spreadthelard

Strips of miniature terrain dirt road made from black rubber anti-skid floor material, brown caulk, gravel and paint

It's not bacon -- whipped up about nine feet of perfectly serviceable dirt road terrain in a day using the technique in this video. Think I'll try a river next!
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After spending years reading (in extreme detail) about the area from Blaenavon to Abergavenny for genealogy reasons, it's extremely cool to see them progress in tabletop form 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇸

A general view of the table. A small group of royalists held the redoubt and the road on the left with the royalist reinforcements coming in top right. The parliamentarians were set up bottom right

A view from the royalist redoubt showing the cannon after firing at the Parliament dragoons in the centre of the table (top centre top)

A bit of a closer view of the parliamentarian disposition to the right o. The table with some cuirassiers in the foreground and dragoons and moss troopers in the background with some commission made medieval builds taking up the majority of the space.

Some action around d the redoubt. The parliamentarian cuirassiers almost took the royalist redoubt but not before some fierce fighting took place

Got a small ECW game in this afternoon using the new @bloodyminiatures.bsky.social rules that will be released in the summer.

Much fun was had. It was pretty much a draw. Saying that, the parliamentarian choristers crossed tue bridge but left their remaining troops to be mopped up by the royalists

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Resin of some sort!
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28mm scale Anderson shelter mini with grass and sandbags

I love this adorable Sally 4th Anderson shelter. But now I'm going to feel compelled to get a bunch of garden-themed terrain to go along with it 😟

#miniaturepainting

And now joined by The Vicar and The Bishop

28mm Pendraken miniatures, armed postal workers in dark blue uniforms carrying rifles (plus a pair of pigeon handlers)

The General Post Office Fusiliers! For Very British Civil War - Chain of Command 2. Whipped up yesterday, partly as a test for Army Painter paint pens on flesh, webbing and guns. Useful for the lazy and imprecise gamer such as myself. #wargaming #miniaturepainting