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More Celtic/Gallic/Albion Shenanigans

In part One I covered the more regular elements of a Celtic army in Legiones Antiquitatas but now we wander off the paths and into the...

Celts, Gaul and Albion part 1

Having shared my Legiones Antiquitata Roman army a few weeks ago I thought it was time to put up their essential and at times existential...

Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me... part I unus

This blog is all about the Roman army for my Legiones Antiquitata (L.A.) game which is appropriate! In Legiones historical ancients are...

Legions Ancients - Pre-Colombiana.

Legiones antiquitata is a game where the historical ancients armies we all know and love exist in a world where timelines have slipped...

William Henry Johnson - Part 2, A Great War story

Back in 2021 I wrote part one about my Great Uncle William Henry Johnson and his service in WW1 notably as one of JRR Tolkiens'...

The past isn't dead - hell it's not even the past! (1)

First heard this phrase from the mouth of Sheriff Buck in the vastly underrated TV series "American Gothic" and along with "Someone's at...

Little and Large

Not a blog about 1980s comedians but instead about a 1940s comedic double act, The T35 and T38 Tanks, here represented by Trenchworx...

William Henry Johnson - The story of my great uncle during the Great War. Part I.

By October 1918 William (Billy) Johnson had been in the Army since almost the start of the war and was now acting Corporal of no. 2...

Best AFVs of the war, year by year. Part 1 1939.

Having watched lots of top 5 tank videos on you tube I thought to myself that I could do a top 5 tanks of my own despite the fact that I...

Japanese Armour - Not the easiest...

Identifying and painting Japanese armour is not the easiest task for many of us. Japanese armour is just not as familiar to us growing up...