Vulture's Wargaming Blog

A father buys a lie detector robot that slaps people when they lie. He decides...

- Comment : This is worth watching if you are interested in armoured vehicles. -

Each year The  Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs  (FBHVC) encourages the members from affiliated clubs to get their classic/ancie...

- Comment :  This make quite interesting viewing. -

Last Saturday I posted how my son and I had started playing Mechwarrior Online.  Well, the term 'slightly addicted' does spring to ...

SIMPLE TRUTH #1 Lovers help each other undress before sex. However after sex, they always dress on their own. Moral of the story: In ...

A must check out for all Battletech fans is the new MechWarrior Online game.  Currently free to play in Beta mode, my son and I had a coupl...

Went along on Sunday to the first event of the year for the Yorkshire branch of the Military Vehicle Trust (MVT). Held at Cliffords Tower i...

On Thursday I joined in with a game already underway that the Harrogate Club.  Assigned a Infantry unit Stalins in army,  as a real FoW rule...

SCOTTISH COMPASSION............... A man was sitting on a blanket at the beach. He had no arms and no legs. Three women, from England , ...

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Archaeologists have nicknamed the site 'the Pompeii of the North'. When archaeologists were called to a site in the City of London ...

Alex and I love well-done stop-motion movies.  Have experimented ourselves we can appreciate the amount of effort involved.  This is a reall...

This is worth a read about the Battle For Berlin in 1945.   Link - -

A King Tiger is being restored by a team in Switzerland. The photos are worth a look at Link . Comment :  I would love to be involved in t...

Back on the 22 March I posted about an American Civil War (ACW) game I was having at my gaming club Link . Well, as planned we continued th...

This site is well worth checking out. Old pictures carefully blended with ones taken today. Link - -

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...