The Board Turn'd Upside Down

A selection of 15mm miniatures depicting British and Gurkha soldiers from World War II, all in jungle green uniforms

A golden Southeast Asian-style stupa glued cheaply atop a metal cat food tin

Further Burma progress for Chain of Command: A couple platoons' worth of British and Gurkhas, and the medieval Buddhist holy site of Kyat Phūd 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?

Rice paddies made of foam core rectangles painted green and brown and slathered in varnish

A bin full of jungle terrain made of florist foam, cheap plastic palm trees and hardened green sand

More jungle terrain, this set with lots of bamboo trees

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")?

M3 Lee tank and some British infantry on a jungle copse made of green florist foam

Lots of blocks of florist foam with little palm trees

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!

The Many-Headed Hydra by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, Hammer and Hoe by Robin DG Kelley and Burma, the Forgotten War by Jon Latimer

Beach vacation reading list a pretty good cross-section of my obsessions

Ambush on the North West Frontier! An Imperial column is about to be attacked by Waziris. Bring up the Lewis. #wargaming #upthekhyber #nerdlings

Very British Civil War inspo

I only know of it because my dad lived in Arundel for a brief time; in the process of designing a Siege of Arundel Castle campaign to play with him, I had to learn about all the tiny engagements surrounding the siege.

Whoops, River Adur! Pardon my local English geographical knowledge from several thousand miles away

Two 28mm armies face off across a stream and a bridge. A ruined tower stands in the distance.

Red-coated pikeman guard a river crossing

Taught a friend Pikeman's Lament today. His Royalists walloped my Parliamentarians at a loosely recreated Battle of Bramber Bridge (1643). The River Arun is lost! #wargaming

Thanks!

Asking the #spreadthelard folks: We're thinking of trying Chain of Command to use some already-owned 15mm minis.

If I want to play e.g. Burma scenarios, can I use the new rules edition? Or is Far East only doable under the older rules until more army lists are released? Never tried either!

A sword-armed 28mm musketeer with a lusty woman in tow

A man with two pistols faces off against a musketeer

A man with a musket watches over a street from a balcony

A miniature street fight with wounded markers galore

First run of Fistful of Lead: Horse and Musket was a success! A skirmish on the streets of Paris ended with Ethos of the King's Harquebusiers rescuing two spies from a band of mercenaries.

The mercenary leader was left badly wounded after finding himself on the wrong end of a pike. #wargaming

My aspirations are small -- I mean a single barricade or alley, maybe a half-dozen Communards against the same number of soldiers!

(Should stress that I am not the artist in the image above -- purely aspirational!)

I've determined Perry ACW rioters are the ticket! Now to create 1848/Paris Commune skirmishes with my lovely new Parisian terrain. How fitting that this idea struck me on Bastille Day 🇫🇷🚩🏴

Do I recognize a Warlord plastic Pike and Shotte officer??

Cover of "Fistful of Lead: Horse & Musket" rules

Now reading! A year ago I was looking to recreate big battles with as much complexity as I could muster. Now I look for such phrases as "one hour," "Hollywood style" and "as few as five miniatures" (having small kids may be a factor).
#wargaming

Can anyone recommend 28mm miniature lines that would be good for the 1848 European revolutions? I want an excuse to throw up some terrain barricades (and maybe paint a tiny Friedrich Engels). #wargaming #miniaturepainting

Collection of miniatures representing characters from Heironymus Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights” and “The Temptation of St. Anthony”

Finally painted my entire collection of Bosch miniatures, all sculpted by @meridianminiatures.bsky.social - when he announced the second set I decided I needed to finish the first one ASAP. Please clap 👏

#manuscriptmonday #miniatures #art #minipainting

Ooh, did you print those activation cards or buy them somewhere?

Four down, one (the big, intimidating one) to go. Never got Warbases before; these look really cool!

Also, this MDF smells like a lovely bonfire at a cabin

17th-century pewter minis and some MDF "Paris 1625" buildings wrapped in plastic

New Bloody Minis and some buildings from @warbases.bsky.social from across the Atlantic today! I'd say it's like Christmas, but my Puritan forces would never accept the comparison