by madguru | Sep 18, 2015 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Battle Reports, TSATF
My friend Matthew, in addition to being something of a computer genius, a one-time Texas farmhand, and a consumately (overly?) competitive gamer, is quite a talented photographer. When we brought Maiwand Day to Louisiana for the first Colonial Barracks...
by madguru | Sep 16, 2015 | Battle Reports, Fellow Gamers, Scenarios & Army Lists, TSATF
This past Saturday, September 12th, saw a long-awaited event come to pass here at the Maiwand Day household: the first play-test of the Charasiab scenario I hope to bring to this year’s Colonial Barracks V convention, which like the previous IV will feature a...
by madguru | Sep 16, 2015 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Fellow Gamers, Other
Preparations continue for the presentation — hopefully — of my Charasiab game at the approaching COLONIAL BARRACKS V convention in Metarie, Louisiana, just outside New Orleans, on the weekend of this coming November 6th-8th. I don’t know yet...
by madguru | Sep 9, 2015 | History, Miniature Figures, Other
Towards the end of August my entire family left Los Angeles for the East Coast. The main reason for the trip was to drop our 18 year-old son off at Cornell in upstate New York so he could begin his college career, but we spent the following week visiting five other...
by madguru | Sep 1, 2015 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Terrain Building
It’s been a momentous couple of weeks here at the Maiwand Day household, starting with my youngest child’s Bat Mitzvah (ceremony and celebration for reaching the age of maturity and responsability in the Jewish religion), then the Unveiling of my...