How I Base Ships: A Tutorial

Often it seems like there's nothing new in the world of wargaming, but I've never been satisfied with the 'standard' ways of basing ships for miniature wargaming, and so came up with my own method; I've never seen this done anywhere else, but if it has I'd love to...

Review:Tumbling Dice Pe-Dreadnoughts

Scale Shot Against A 10p Coin of The RealmPre-Dreadnoughts have always fascinated me. They existed in a brief slice of historical time between the iron clads and true battleships when naval architects were still experimenting with how best to mate steam power, steel...

Superbattle: Cherbourg 1904

Last weekend I had the honour to take part in another Superbattle - the fictional Battle of Cherbourg, which saw the Russian and German fleets take on a combined Anglo-French force in the English Channel in 1904.  This has been the culmination of many months of...

1:3,000 Russian Pre-Dreadnought Fleet

Time for a long overdue post, I think.  A very stressful time at the moment as I'm changing jobs and moving house, so I sat down to attack the huge pile of unpainted lead, plastic and resin on my table, and managed to turn out some War Times Journal ships.  You might...

Russo-Japanese War: Quickfire Playtest

Regular readers will know that I have something of a passion for pre-dreadnought naval warfare.  I've played War Times Journal's Battlefleet 1900 for many years now.  I have a fairly extensive range of 1:2400 ships from Tumbling Dice, and there are a couple of battle...