Vulture's Wargaming Blog

Ordered to ‘fight to the last man and the last round’, they stuck to their guns as their comrades fell around them. For three days, the bra...

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Years ago I used to play a lot of Play-By-Mail (PBM) games and for a while subscribed to a dedicated magazine called ‘Flagship’ that was dev...

Last night I played my first proper game of the Black Powder rules published by Warlord Games. My friend Theo Street had done an excellent...

Joined in another game of WW2 20mm using the Bolt Action rules last Thursday.  Like at X-Mas I had a Panther.   - After being quite badly pi...

Today crowds of well-wishers cheered as General Sir David Richards, Chief of the Defence Staff, pinned the medal to the chest of frail retir...

In pictures, HMS Belfast at 75.   Link to the BBC Web site.

The grave of a medieval knight and the foundations of a monastery built by a former king of Scotland have been found under an old city car p...

In the first of a three-part series marking the 10th anniversary of the invasion, an army officer tells how he lost his marriage, his career...

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The technical superiority of the T-34 in 1941 (and during WWII in general) has become the stuff of legend. Its apparent superiority has beco...

Limited-edition prints of an oil painting depicting Tiger 131’s final moments in military service are to be sold to raise money for the upke...

Spotted this picture on a thread on the Historic Military Vehicle Forum (HMVF), and just felt I had to re-post here :) - - And I quote, ...

The Land Mattress, a multi-barreled rocket launcher was the brain child of Canadian artillery officer Lt. Col. Eric Harris and perhaps more ...

The MoD is buying 22 A400M Atlas transport aircraft to replace the RAF's fleet of C-130 Hercules planes, with the first aircraft set to ...

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Follow Me ! - World War II Combat by Peter L Rice Many many years ago an old friend of mine George Carhart brought me a copy of these r...

You think you have lived to be 83 and know who you are, then along comes someone and blows it all away! An old Marine Pilot sat down a...

Came across this nice little video of the F14 Tomcat, one of my favourite aircraft of all time. - -

A picture of my friend Andy Baxter's 15mm Alien figures, made by Irregular Miniatures . -

Hidden in Plain View During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it fro...

Royal Navy News The Royal Navy is proud of its new fleet of Type 45 destroyers. Having initially named the first two ships HMS Daring and ...

We had a fine day yesterday here in Yorkshire on Saturday, so I took the opportunity to go the the Yorkshire Air Museum at the old Elvingto...

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A couple of people have asked that I post the Support Weapons table from the expanded Sci-Fi FUBAR variant I've recent wrote about.  Her...

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Archaeologists have called off a hunt for World War II Spitfires in Burma. Originally it was thought as many as 124 Spitfires were buried b...

The day a U-boat ran aground off Hastings: Haunting pictures show German warship washed onto beach after WWI as it sailed to France. The U...

Watching a well scripted series on TV is for me one of life's little pleasures. Some of the best TV I have seen in the last 12 months h...

A couple of photos here (at Don Ms request) of the bits and pieces Alex and I picked up the Vapnartak show last weekend ( Link to earlier p...

A couple of weeks back we visited a local Toy Fair at York Racecourse .  As every on the look out for a bargain, I picked up a Leclerc Fren...

After much consideration I have decided to change the template of the Blog.  The main reason is to all allow posting of bigger pictures.  Th...

Followed a link to this fascinating  story today.  Worth a read. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Operati...

Last Sunday I attended my local Wargames Show ' Vapnartak ' with young son Alex and my old friend John Elwen.  This was my first tim...

It seems a disgrace that this ship can't be saved :(   Link - -