@theboardturned.bsky.social
An American's adventures in historical miniature wargaming: English Civil War, Victorian wars, early 20th century and beyond. Card-carrying True Leveller π© Main acct: @redpgh.com
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 π
#miniaturepainting
And now joined by The Vicar and The Bishop
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
Rules are Chain of Command 2, with Very British Civil War army lists provided by @badsocialism.bsky.social. Good to get back into it!
First wargame of the year! 1938: The Loamshire Territorials under @buckyizzy.bsky.social rout a patrol of the Bulcaster Workers' Militia on a farm road. Despite a heroic bayonet charge and the arrival of some (untrained) reinforcements, the militia withered under disciplined fire, leaving many dead.
Looking through various Chain of Command books (e.g. Abyssinian War) and wondering how easily the rules could be applied to Waziristan/the Northwest Frontier in the late 1930s. π€
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Clive Branson's "Demonstration In Battersea", London, 1939 with Spanish Republican flag in background. Branson fought in Spain with the British Batallion but was captured and imprisoned at the terrible Francoist San Pedro de CardeΓ±a camp. Later killed in action in 1944 in Burma
Among my most half-assed painting efforts yet, but hey -- 46 minis from basecoat to based in 24 hours is fine by me! Coming soon to a British Civil War battlefield.
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So now I have 11 linear feet of scouring-pad hedgerows to paint and decorate. But once I've enclosed the land, what will become of the newly proletarianized kitchen-supply peasants? #wargaming
Donald Duck poster for CNT toy shop in Barcelona during Civil War, part of the wider collectivised wood industry which controlled everything from forests in Girona, to workshops and shops in the capital, often cited as among most successful of anarchist collectives
2026 shaping up to be the year of British Civil War (1938, singular, fictional) and British Civil Wars (1642-51, plural, real). Just need the temperature to allow for some spray painting! #wargaming
π΅ Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Wargames Atlantic barricades
Is there a world you long to see?
Does anyone know whether "A Very Civil Whist" can be obtained in the US, despite our present isolationist regime? π₯Ί #wargaming
Thanks!!
Any recommended sellers? I'm about to do the same for Burma!
I just painted all these exact same minis for Burma! Mine look uhhh somewhat less good
Anyone who has used Chain of Command rules for Very British Civil War settings (I assume you're out there!): Are there army lists published somewhere, officially or otherwise? I've seen folks play CoC in all sorts of cool settings, but haven't found references for most. #wargaming #spreadthelard
It took a long time because we introduced a lot of new (to us) rules: tanks, mortar barrages, fortifications etc. But still a good narrative and it'll only be quicker in the future!
Second game of Chain of Command with @buckyizzy.bsky.social! π²π² 1945: The bloody British assault on the Kyat Phud Kan monastery peters out amid stubborn Japanese defense, but a mortar barrage and a Sherman of Probyn's Horse threaten to break the deadlock! Battle inconclusive due to lunch.
Further Burma progress for Chain of Command: A couple platoons' worth of British and Gurkhas, and the medieval Buddhist holy site of Kyat PhΕ«d Kan (cat food can) #wargaming
Note: US pennies seemed like a good idea for bases at the time. They were decidedly not!
(I believe I saw @desmondo.bsky.social's Burma setup with multiple figures to a base, but I'm sure others do the same!)
Seeking more wisdom from the #spreadthelard community as I start CoC2. What modifications do players make to use multi-based minis in, say 15mm? Do any rules (line of sight, teams, etc.) have to be changed? If so, has anyone written a guide?
Poor man's Burma continues to expand: A table's worth of jungle and bamboo, plus some foamcore-and-varnish rice paddies. Elmer's glue and green sand doing a great deal of work here! #wargaming
Foam-and-paper Nagaland continues to grow! #wargaming
I wonder whether there was a transition point at which wargaming moved from floor to tabletop. Was it once they no longer involved flinging objects (like in Wells' "Little Wars")?
Florist foam + cheap plastic trees + old Axis & Allies minis = extremely cheap Burma setting (in progress) for learning Chain of Command!
Loving all this inspiration as someone working on a (much less attractive!) Burma setting to try out CoC for the first time
Can any #spreadthelard folk advise on US-friendly sources for Chain of Command markers and tokens (even printable PDFs one can cut out)? I refuse to let my fascist government kill my interest in a new system before I've even tried it!
Beach vacation reading list a pretty good cross-section of my obsessions
