Golgotha's Games - English Civil War Stokenchurch

 Herewith an ECW game attempting to recreate a skirmish that took place in Stokenchurch. The site of the village (being on the main London to Oxford road) proved a good resting and changing place for horses. For this reason, in the Civil War, it was commonly used as a resting place for both Royalist and Parliamentarian troops. Being between Royalist Oxford and Parliamentarian London the village is mentioned no less than twelve times in the journal of Scoutmaster General Sir Samuel Luke between 1643 and 1644, and on two occasions (on 5 December 1642 and 17 June 1643) skirmishes broke out when both sides arrived at the village together.

Played as GM with my two sons and since we stayed in Stokenchurch for a number of years we wanted to play this. Game went to my youngest son winning as the Royalists with Prince Rupert managing to break a flank of the Parliamentarian forces. 

For some of the history of this battle see: https://www.thisispaston.co.uk/civilwarmap.html

Rules used Victory Without Quarter. 10mm Miniatures by Pendraken, Irregular, and Lancer miniatures.  

Turned this unit into Forlorn Hope given the number morale checks they made. 

See: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=101948.msg1765446#msg1765446

Golgotha's Games - Portable Wargame Rules Napoleonic

 Herewith a grid-based game called Portable wargame rules available for free download here: http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~warden/portable_wargame/

Number of periods possible with these rules but my son aged 8 wanted a Napoleonic wargame after watching this: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBSGSkIasRY&t=1347s&ab_channel=EpicHistoryTV

Well worth watching for anyone into Napoleonic Wars or for that matter thinking of doing so...

See: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=101948.3735

Wycombe Warband Wargames Club - Battlefleet Gothic Game

 Herewith a blast from the past that has been years perhaps in the making... Evidently, the game is gaining a fan base and now with 3d printing playing is yet again possible. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this game and as GW mechanics go this one is rather streamlined and does not like most of their systems have too many dice rolls. 

See: https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=101948.msg1764985#msg176498

I see that proxy ships from Russia are also available as an option here: 

https://souldark.ru/category/space-ships/

Golgotha's Animals - Pissing Dog and small sheep

 Herewith a new thread, since I have so many animals thought I would dedicate a section of the blog to them.

First up a dog which I got for free among a bargain bucket of 50p miniatures they had on sale at the Colours wargame show. The tree stump has some added bark texturing to what is a 1/72 Plastic soldier company piece which I got for free from a kind chap at my local wargame club. Really enjoyed putting this one together. Especially given that he was a stray and now has a home and something to do his business on...

Does look a bit like Tintin's Dog Snowy but I have called him piddles for perhaps obvious reasons...

Next some 10mm sheep by Pendraken. See: https://www.pendraken.co.uk/n10-nml2-nsheep-5187-p.asp

I also picked these up from Colours Show and the people at the stand must have thought I was mad as I could not stop myself from making sheep noises...