by madguru | Jan 19, 2016 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Rivers, Terrain Building, Uncategorized
Been very busy with work and family since New Year’s, but managed to complete one hobby project over the past 10 days or so.My last blog post featured my “scratch” terrain layout for my What If? “Bala Hissar or Bust!” scenario.One of...
by madguru | Dec 23, 2015 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Scenarios & Army Lists
A few years ago I did a post here showing a handful of conversions I did to create figures for the Winter of 1841-42, to refight the Retreat from Kabul and Last Stand at Gandamak/Jugduluk in an ALTERNATE HISTORY What-If? style, with the premise that on Christmas Eve...
by madguru | Nov 25, 2015 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Fellow Gamers, History
Amongst the many boxes I brought with me to Colonial Barracks V in Metarie was one with a stack of t-shirts in it. I put up a post here on my blog when I designed them a couple of months back, with help from my daughter who used her Photoshop skills to remove a large...
by madguru | Oct 29, 2015 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Battle Reports, Fellow Gamers, TSATF
After a very hectic few weeks on the work front, I managed to coral one other player for another go-round of my Charasiab scenario. Actually I coralled two other players, who were supposed to both serve as British Commanders, but one of them unfortunatley got sick...
by madguru | Oct 18, 2015 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Fellow Gamers
One of the nice things about the internet is the ability to meet like-minded people who if not for the internet you probably would never have met at all.For me one of those people is Jim Ferich, a fellow Colonial wargamer and fellow fan/customer of Chris Riordan AKA:...
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...
