by madguru | Aug 25, 2012 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
The family and I are almost done with our European vacation, and tonight one of my daughters was a bit under the weather, so we all came back to the hotel somewhat early — at least for Rome — and everyone is sleeping, except for me, so… rather than...
by madguru | Aug 19, 2012 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Fellow Gamers, Miniature Figures
I just took a water-taxi from the Venice train station, through the canals, to the 15th Century hotel where my family and I are staying — but the thing I’m really excited about is an email that greeted me via the hotel’s wifi system, from the...
by madguru | Aug 12, 2012 | Afghan Wars & North-West Frontier, Hills, Rocky Terrain, Terrain Building
About to head off on a family vacation and wanted to put this up before leaving. Just finished this latest rocky wood-chip hill this past week, and think it turned out well. Nothing new compared to the prior info I’ve posted on building and painting...
by madguru | Aug 6, 2012 | Buildings, Bridges, Defensive Works, Etc., Camerone, Fellow Gamers, Maximillian Intervention, Terrain Building
As promised, here are a bunch more pics of Michael Monremarano and Rich Hasenaeur’s Camerone game, put on 3 times at this year’s recent Historicon convention — which won the “Best of Show” Game Master award, meaning it must have...
by madguru | Jul 28, 2012 | Fellow Gamers, Rules
I was planning to spend much of today posting a bunch of material here, in commemoration of the 132nd anniversary of the Battle of Maiwand — but I ended up heading down to Orange, California (about an hour’s drive South of L.A.) to play an American Civil...
by madguru | Jul 24, 2012 | Battle Reports, Camerone, Conventions, Fellow Gamers, Maximillian Intervention
Here’s just a teaser of 3 pics from Michael Montemarano and Rich Hasenaeur’s epic Camerone game at Historicon in Fredericksburg, VA this past weekend:If all goes well I will have a lot more pics from the 3 games played on this impressive set-up during the...
by madguru | Jun 18, 2012 | Fellow Gamers, Miscellaneous History, Rocky Terrain
It’s been a busy Spring here at the Maiwand Day household, on work and family fronts, and hobby activity and related blogging have suffered from the resulting lack of time on my part. But sooner or later this too shall pass, and with the successful...
by madguru | May 4, 2012 | Camerone, Maximillian Intervention
…the order is given: “FORM SQUARE!”
