After wargaming for about 58 years I’m now considering several issues when thinking about new projects. One is how much use I might get from a new pair of armies – I only wargame with others a couple of times a month, perhaps the same for solo games. I also have very arthritic fingers so […]
Wargaming
Sample Article – March 2026
In this month’s new sample article from back issues of Lone Warrior, Mike Stewart examines two titles of particular interest to wargamers interested in “Cold War gone Hot” or Late 20th Century conflicts. With a emphasis on their value to creating realistic skirmish scenarios, Mike finds much to recommend both books. You can find it on […]
My 2024 Hobby Reflections
by George Banic Season’s greetings to all the wargaming Lone Wolves out there! Hopefully you all had a great 2024 and 2025 is shaping up to be even better! For those who had the opposite experience, my commiserations to you and, again, my hope that the coming New Year provides you with the opportunity for […]
2024 Hobby Reflections
by Martin Smith (Edited to include photos of Martin’s fantastic dinosaurs! – JY) John’s post on the blog prompted me to look back at my 2024 year of wargaming. I joined a wargames club, my first since the mid-80’s, so played more face-to-face games, including Dragon Rampant and Xenos Rampant, which were excellent fun and […]
Eagles: The Wargame Encounter?
by Rob Morgan Of course, merely suggesting that the loss of one of Bonaparte’s beloved ‘cuckoo’s’ might have the germ of a solo wargame in it led to some further discussion. So, I turned again to Steve Ede-Borret’s 1993 article mentioned earlier. Try this for size: In battle, the Eagle was never far from the […]
Eagles
by Rob Morgan In my earlier note, Band of Brothers, I mentioned the battle of Eylau, fought in a deep snowstorm in February 1805. Well, we were discussing Boney’s campaigns over a beer, Jack and I, and the perils of fighting in foul weather came up. This was, in many ways, General Bonaparte’s worst battle, […]
Wargames in ‘Tradition’
By Rob Morgan Back in the 1960’s when I began wargaming, tentatively, the publications list available to the average teenage gamer was, to say the least, limited. You might find something about wargames or suitable models in good old Airfix Magazine, or maybe in Meccano Magazine. Little else. I had no idea then that there […]
Measuring?
by Rob Morgan I began wargaming in the mid-1960’s, and yes that’s a very long time ago. One of my early memories, from about 1964, was of a demo wargame I saw played on a billiard table ( that’s nine and a half by four and three quarters feet) involving a mass of largely Airfix […]
Solo Christmas Wargames Quiz : The Answers Arrive
by Rob Morgan I hope you found the questions intriguing, or at least interesting, and even, possibly, worth a little research. Here are the answers and, by the way, if you have any alternatives or want to add a comment ( or an insult- like the ones I get when I do the pub quiz) […]
Solo Christmas Wargames Quiz
By Rob Morgan My first thought when putting this quiz together was to make it a sort of OstFront-Winter War- battles and campaigns in the snow special, but that’s a bit too obvious and so I tried to vary the questions a bit. I couldn’t find a battle in which sleighs were used either, but […]