Bolt Action Finnish Nationals and Nationalist Chinese Army

Guomindang takes victory

It had been a long while since I had played in a Bolt Action tournament, even if BA has remained one of my top 5 games through the years and recently I ran a Combined Arms -campaign at the club.

So it was a real joy to have players from all around Finland to come together and mettle their strenght in Bolt Action.

I was fortunate enough to pull a tournament win this time with three straight victoeries in my games.

Tournament was played with 4 allied players vs. 4 axis players and matching players was based on this (aka not pure SWISS)

ASOIAF: House Martell on parade UPDATED 17.7.2023

 Unbowed, unbent, unbroken

Decicated Water Gardens themed Tactics Board for Martells

See how I made it here 

Combined Arms Campaign

 Winter War

Bought Warlord Games Combined Arms -campaign system / game already last June and eventually last fall we kicked off a campaign with three mates from Nopat & Taktiikka club. Martin joined me as a brother in arms fielding Finnish forces fighting off the onslaught of Soviets steered with iron fist(s) byt Marko and Johannes. We chose to play Winter War (1939-40) themed campaign. Read on to learn about ou experience.

We chose this map to present the border areas of Finland and Soviet Union, including lake Laatokka (Ladoga) and the Gulf of Finland. Grey for Finland and green for CCCP.

Hobby year 2022 in retrospect and plans for 2023

 

Another Hobby Year Gone By

And it was a busy one with 150 games played! All of them phusical games!

Read further to read all about it!

Second half of 2022 on my painting desk & high lights WIP

 House Martell, Ancients & WW2 fighter planes 

dominate the desk

Back to Hamburger Tactica!

Good to be BACK!

Hamburger Tactica is my most favourite Wargames Show (I've been to Salute, Warfare and local smaller events too). It combines beautiful tables (Germans really excel at this), a good catering of demogames to play, good range of traders and after 4 visits already quite a bunch of nice people I've already gotten to know! Also "bring and buy" has always been a great opportunity to buy stuff you didn't really know you were needing! So it was good to back after too many years of break - I last visited in 2017.

Start - toasting with Michal from www.wargamer.pl - where we make a lot of club orders

 

Turning 50 and celebrating 35 years in the hobby with a BANG!!!

 Seven tables set for my gaming mates

Yes, I turned 50 this Summer and held several parties to my friends and family.

I also painted my first wargaming miniature some 35 years ago (I think it was a Chaos Dwarf of a Dark Elf that we used playing role playing games), so I wanted to set up a special event to celebrate these milestones with my wargaming mates. So on I went and decided to organize a (demo) games day at our Nopat & Taktiikka club here in Helsinki.

I brought miniatures and some terrain too, to set up 7 different games, recruited fellow gamers to run the demos and invited 20+ mates to come and play. Read on to find out what was on the menu!