A belated Happy Birthday to our Club Website! It opened for business on 31st May 2005 and had its first posts on 15th July 2005 - a short piece on the Dakota Wars by Mike W. and a series of three articles by Steve entitled Five and Twenty Ponies which neatly bookends the latest submission by Steve on a couple of Smuggling Games played a couple weeks ago! Nothing changes in all that time...
So what have been the most popular posts in all that time I hear you asking, well here's the Top Ten List.
All Time Most Popular Posts: As of 12/08/20
by Dave Vallance - Here's a rough outline to the 4 battles of the first war..1845-1846 Mudki - 18th December 1845 first battle, ...
by Steve Cast - The Battle Instead of me writing reams more I shall instead show the battle in map form at various stages of the game because as they say “...
by Steve Cast - “But still they come....” Steve’s take on HG Wells War of the Worlds More Photos Here In 1898 H.G Wells wrote a book that was t...
by Dave Vallance - Wargaming is a fickle hobby, don’t you think? Tony Bath & Hyboria We all have our particular interests in a ...
by Mike W - A game from John's occasional series of linked games covering the German invasion of France in 1940. This game was played over several n...
by Mike W - This is the 2018 'Mega-Napoleonic' battle that the club seems to try and put on every year or so. Hosted by Rupert and aided and abetted by John...
by Mike W - Game by Phil. Background In March 1943, the Axis were on the run in North Africa. Driven back in fierce fighting at Wadi Akarit on the 6th and 7th of ...
by Mike W - Game by Steve. Loyalist Militia Across the British Front lines Steve put on a battle form the 1798 Irish Rebellion in 6mm, the aim was to tweak his...
by Steve Cast - When in 1998, whilst visiting relatives in Ireland, I set my eyes upon “The year of Liberty - The great Irish rebellion of 1798” I knew I...
by Mike W - The Battle The Covenanters established their camp on the south bank of the Clyde, north of Hamilton. The rebels numbered around 6,00...
So there it is, hopefully another 15 Years of wackiness for the club, once we all get through this Covid Patch we'll be sure to have a lot of games stored up to play. Thanks for everyone's support - as can be seen Steve & Dave are by far the most popular contributors (Unless they keep reading their own contributions over and over again to push their scores up!)
So what was my Favourite Article in the last 15 years - well it's hard to say, so I'll cheat and say the Off the Workbench series of posts. Simply because it documents my love for painting figures and and the slow (possibly glacial) rise in popularity in Big Boys Toys within the club!
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