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...
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...
