Simon K 🏴 🇩🇪 🇺🇦
@yorkistic
Player of board games, wargames, and RPGs. Copyeditor and proofreader, Intermediate Member @the-ciep.bsky.social. Philosophy grad. Ex reenactor & morris dancer. Tsundokuka. Often beset by loganamnosis. Immigrant/emigrant, depending on where you’re stood.
Before & after: stripped (with Dettol) & repainted my Citadel 1980s metal orcs. These guys must have each died a hundred deaths upon the dining room table of my 80s D&D games. #TTRPG #OSR #D&D1e #wargaming
Finished some ca. 14c spearmen, old Citadel figs now made by Foundry. Painted them as serjeants of the lords of Rodenstein in Hesse. Bases are a nod to 90s Goblin Green. #Wargaming
Family out for evening, so sitting on balcony with a book and latest issue of Secret Passages by @jdhoare.bsky.social, listening to Greta van Fleet.
And here are all my painted tribesmen to date, ready for the release of Age of Caesars. #Wargames #Wargaming #SagaWargame
Wargames Foundry AG007 Chatti Warriors, painted for upcoming Saga Age of Caesars. All Romans are cordially invited to a picnic in the Teutoburg Forest. #wargames #wargaming
For reference, here's the Thegns of Mercia @thegns.bsky.social showing how one should look.
Hwaet! I'm reading my son the Rosemary Sutcliffe version of Beowulf, from 1961. It's illustrated, but I'm starting to think the artist had no reference for a 'boar-crested helm' and this was their best attempt at what one looked like. #AngloSaxons #wargaming #5thcentury
Not sure about online, but this is my go to for BEF markings:
Every year I sow wildflower seeds in the garden. This year, nothing seemed to happen all May–early June, then suddenly they've sprung into life for Midsummer.
18/25-pdr QF gun from @warlordgames.com for #BoltAction. A 25-pdr barrel on an upgraded WW1-era 18-pdr carriage. As they say in A Bridge Too Far: "All guns commence firing!" #Wargaming
Vickers VIB light cavalry tank from @warlordgames.com for #ChainofCommand & #BoltAction. Under-armoured & under-armed, more like an armoured car on tracks. #SpreadtheLard #Wargaming
As luck would have it, I was at the Bundeswehr museum in Koblenz today. Here’s all the reference pictures you might need.
Panzer 38(t) from @warlordgames.com painted up for #ChainofCommand and #BoltAction Blitzkrieg 1940 #wargaming #SpreadtheLard
Anyone else spotted the connection between the chief berserker in The Northman (2022), and one of the plates from the 7th century Sutton Hoo Helmet? #Vikings #AngloSaxons #paganism
We were lucky to have a decent library, and once that got me into fiction there was a secondhand bookshop in town with a big sci-fi & fantasy section. It's where my Moorcock collection got started.
Finally done. An entire early war IJA platoon, with supports. #ChainofCommand #BoltAction #SpreadtheLard #Wargaming @pchieza.bsky.social
@wyrdscience.bsky.social bought Ad Astra Per Croydon by @colossive.com based on your review. I'm now imagining playing it as a mashup of Orbital Blues & The Goon Show:
Got my copy of @wyrdscience.bsky.social 8. The fanzine article, with different typefaces & styles on each page, and Tippexed typos, is layout as art. Well done!
Matilda II from @warlordgames.com completed for #ChainofCommand & #BoltAction Like its MkI sibling behind it, it's slow, but able to laugh at most enemy AT guns. #SpreadtheLard #Wargaming
First purchase from Salute @slondonwarlords.bsky.social finished: motorcycle combo from Wargames Foundry for #ChainofCommand and #BoltAction #SpreadtheLard
I started a Japanese force when I got the Far East book for Chain of Command. Few suitable plastic kits for allies though, was considering 8th Army as early war Brits/Indians. Heard rumour Warlord will release a plastic box with their Far East supplement this year.
Wanted to visit Crossbones graveyard in Southwark on my trip to London, but turns out it’s only accessible a few hours each afternoon. Got a photo of the votive wall outside though.
Watching Sisu 2 and thinking “There must be stats for these armoured motorcyclists in #BoltAction” #wargaming
Chain of Command Gembloux Gap PSC Turn 8, counterattack at Noirmont. A French loss this time, failed to hold the road junction objective. The R35 tank, although heavily armoured, was unable to withstand a flank shot from a PzIII. #SpreadtheLard #wargames #wargaming