Monthly Archives: May 2011

Photos from My First Thirty Years War Fight

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Brian Burger

Sunday the 29th of May we got together to do a four-player 1,000pt Field of Glory: Renaissance battle; this was bigger than had previously been attempted and was my first actual game in this period. I badly bent a rule … Continue reading →

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ECW Painting, Other Randomness for 28 May 2011

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Brian Burger

An entire week since my last substantial post! The horror, how will our dedicated readership cope? I’ve been painting up an English Civil War/Thirty Years War storm this week, filling that inevitable post-Lead Painters League void with 40-odd plastic pike-and-shotte … Continue reading →

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Finally got around to doing some badly needed pruning of the General & Personal Wargaming Links page, which has frankly needed it since about 2004… On a more positive note, I added a whole batch of new companies and other … Continue reading →

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Brian Burger | Leave a comment

LPL5 Week 10: Gunga Din (1939)

Posted on May 22, 2011 by Brian Burger

The final round of LAF’s Lead Painters League 5 was another bonus round, this one “A Scene From The Movies”, with bonus points for two teams and a vehicle or scenery piece representing a scene from a well-known movie. I … Continue reading →

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Zeppelins. We like Zeppelins.

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Brian Burger

There’s zeppelin on the curent banner for this site, and we’re notorious pulp gamers, so it should come as no surprise that zeppelins are amongst our favourite things here on The Warbard. Sure, they’re often explosive, prone to crashing in … Continue reading →

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Another Review of .45 Adventures 2nd Edition

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Brian Burger

Another review of .45 Adventures 2nd Edition has come out, this one in The Ancible #9, a free-to-download PDF magazine. I hadn’t actually grabbed a copy of The Ancible before, I have to admit. It started as a “real” paper … Continue reading →

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LPL5 Week 9: The Horse Again, I’m Afraid

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Brian Burger

Week 9? There was no Week 9. Well, OK, there was, but it involved me running my ECW Parliamentarian Horse again, and them getting beaten. Again. However, I still like the models and the paintjob I managed on them, so … Continue reading →

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A Few Bolshies!

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Brian Burger

These guys started out as a Lead Painters League entry, but didn’t get finished in time, and besides, I’d already run too many groups of riflemen in khaki to want to run another in LPL5! They’re a mix of Brigade … Continue reading →

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LPL5 Week 8: For God And Parliament!

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Brian Burger

For the 5th Lead Painters League’s 8th Round, something entirely new from me: 28mm English Civil War/Thirty Years War cavalry! These are Warlord plastic horse, nominally ECW Parliamentarian horse but really destined for our gaming group’s quasi-historical nominally-Thirty Years War … Continue reading →

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I’ve created a new “Painting” category, and a new page to collect all the Painting-category articles. You’ll find the page as a submenu item under Inspiration on the menu at the top of each page, or in either the Content … Continue reading →

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Brian Burger | Leave a comment