Monthly Archives: May 2020

And Now For Something Completely Different: 1809 Chess-Set

Posted on 31st May 2020 by jemima_fawr

A blast from the past appeared on my Facebook feed this week, when an old friend posted some photos of the chess-set I made for him about 21 years ago, based on the French and Austrian armies of the 1809 … Continue reading →

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The Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro 1811 (A Scenario for Napoleon’s Battles)

Posted on 27th May 2020 by jemima_fawr

In the first few months of 1811, Wellington had turned back yet another French invasion of Portugal at the Lines of Torres Vedras and had gone onto the offensive, pushing Marshal Masséna‘s army all the way back into Spain.  However, … Continue reading →

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‘Active Edge’: Building a Cold War BAOR Battlegroup

Posted on 18th May 2020 by jemima_fawr

My good mate, lapsed wargamer and former Best Man, Gary P was recently browsing this blog.  As a long-serving senior officer of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces, a veteran of numerous wars and operations, a Staff College graduate and having undertaken … Continue reading →

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My ‘Partizan in the Cloud’: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978

Posted on 17th May 2020 by jemima_fawr

This weekend should have been spent schlepping up to Newark for my annual pilgrimage to the Partizan 2020 show, but as with so many events at the moment, Partizan has been forced to cancel.  However, they are running the show … Continue reading →

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The Royal Marines Armoured Support Group in Normandy 1944

Posted on 9th May 2020 by jemima_fawr

As it’s VE Day (or at least it was when I started writing this), I thought I’d better do a WW2 post… 🙂 The Royal Marines Armoured Support Group was a short-lived organisation created for the Normandy Landings of 1944 … Continue reading →

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Napoleonic Reinforcements

Posted on 5th May 2020 by jemima_fawr

I’m in trouble with Mrs Fawr… The lockdown means that I’ve been painting AB Figures Napoleonics at an unprecedented rate and have been buying bare metal at an even greater rate, primarily due to hoovering up the remaining stock of … Continue reading →

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