Back in the late 1980s, a school friend introduced me to something which would go on to become one of the great passions of my life: wargaming. To be specific, the wargame in question was Warhammer Fantasy Battles 3rd Edition. I fell
As a collector of Mid War for Flames of War’s North Africa campaign who has managed to acquire pretty much everything that he wants for that particular theatre, I decided to take the next logical step and grab the Eastern Front army
Another of the Action force toys that has recently fell into my hands is that of the Q-force Aqua trooper. Q-force was the naval arm of Action Force, and this particular one was an underwater swimmer with breathing aparatus, forming up the
So the toy I wanted more than anything growing up was the Red Shadows Shadowtrack. I managed to get the laser exterminator as my big action force vehicle, then transformers from then on as my folks simply couldn’t afford any (I was
This is another kit that I was fortunate enough to pick up from a clearance house with a very generous multi-buy discount on top of the low price. I actually bought two sets, as I wanted to assemble both artillery and anti-tank
I grabbed myself three boxes of these Battlefront kits as part of a British Mechanised Company list I’m building for Team Yankee, supplied at an excellent discount by those wonderful folks at Wayland Games. I could have gone with Warrior IFVs to
I was gifted this book for Christmas, and while I’m more a fan of the earlier time periods in which Flames of War is set, it’s nice to have a look at what happens with the monster tanks, insane artillery, and other
I’ve been collecting various Mid-War Flames of War armies for a while now, and had already grabbed myself the individual countries’ African campaign books (Armoured Fist– British, Fighting First– American, Avanti– Italian, and Afrika Korps– German). However, I was a little disappointed that none of them offered
Here we have a boxed set of British Mechanised Infantry for the World War III combat game Team Yankee. I grabbed mine to go with my FV432 APCs, but the unit sizes are exactly the same, so the box will work just
I grabbed a couple of boxes of these guys to complement a Team Yankee French Leclerc starter force which I’d already nabbed, for no reason other than that I like the look of the AMX-30 tanks. They’re beautiful to behold, although I’m
