Steve Blease
@ironcow2103
Mostly about toy soldiers. Sometimes music. Occasionally a left wing rant.
I'll will not be tempted... I'll will not be tempted... I'll will not be tempted... Curse you @warlordgames.com
Awful, awful AI generated book cover, but... the idea seems a lot of fun and I do have a quite a few zombies... 🤔
More @warlordgames.com Imperial Landsknechts, half the first pike block - rank three the zweihänder and the rear fourth rank some pike. Need to crack on with the front two ranks now. Thanks to 'Marine Juice' for making this a lot easier a job than the end result suggests...
Battle report from the Peninsular was the brave boys of the Kingdom of Italy army try to capture the enemy spy, the man from Del Monte, before the British rescue him! #SharpPractice #SpreadTheLard bleaseworld.blogspot.com/2026/07/shar...
WW2 Far East #ChainOfCommand action tonight as @andycrow.bsky.social’s Japanese were treated to a good kicking in the jungles of Burma… #SpreadTheLard
And a couple of Landsknecht officers which were #Citadel fantasy types in a previous life...
Painted up the first unit of @warlordgames.com Landsknecht arquebusiers for Italian Wars - lovely figures and surprising easy to get a good look with a neat base coat, @sonicsledgehammer.bsky.social's Marine Juice then some odd highlights of the original colour (these were on the sprue on Sunday am)
Due to the delay in kick off I did some more research on commando activities in WW2 - after their battles against zombies, the elite British troops faced a new enemy...
I’m not saying it was all down to me pigging on Norwegian snacks during the match but Smash!
"This was a secret war; whose battles were lost or won unknown to the public; and only with difficulty comprehended" Winston Churchill Discover the secret history of WW2 with Geheimkrieg, available now at 30% off in the Wargame Vault Summer Offensive sale... www.wargamevault.com/en/product/8...
Got far too many half started projects on the go so what's one more eh? 🤦♂️ Miniatures are lovely... #ItalianWars #NeverMindTheBillhooks #OnBloodyGround
Taking you back to the Iraq War and the 'Bravo Two Zero' SAS missions behind Iraqi lines to destroy Saddam's Scuds with Scubusters II: Return to Iraq now available in the Wargame Vault sale at 30% off! www.wargamevault.com/.../scudbust...
Some almost finished #Foundry Landsknecht handgunners - happy how these have come up thanks to the wonder of @sonicsledgehammer.bsky.social’s Marine Juice!
The models are mostly the original ACW conversions I created for the first ever Aeronef game back at Salute in 1999 way before Brigade made any VSF models... Also included is the game handout mimicking (IIRC) the famous Daily Mirror from August 1940 with a Victorian twist...
As last week Paul liked (some) of these photos from a Twitter post I did back in November 2021(!), I thought I'd dig out and post the original photos here. This was a game with my (sadly departed) mate George Cowie as we were testing out a few ideas for Aeronef II - including split target firing...
I'm pretty rubbish promoting my hobby business on here but the WarGameVault Summer Sale is now on with 30% of Wessex Games products - so grab yourself a bargain today (or in the next six days before the sale ends!) www.wargamevault.com/en/publisher...
This was not a Captain Hurricane style tale, but a realistic and moving story of a 16 year old cockney on the Western Front. The writing and artwork was top quality and still moves me today...
It's the 110th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme today. I remember first appreciating the horror of it as a comic reading kid in the seventies reading Charley's War in Battle.
#VBCW action using #ThroughTheMudAndBlood with a brave Communist outpost garrisoning a Somerset farm come under attack from a numerically superior BUF force! Thanks to @andycrow.bsky.social for running the game. #SpreadTheLard bleaseworld.blogspot.com/2026/06/thro...
Great day of #OnBloodyGround Norman Conquest at Bristol Independent Gaming today. My Saxons played out their two games perfectly historically for 1066 (albeit in reverse) getting beaten by Steve's Normans in game one, but walloping Jen's Norse in game two. Looking forward to the next OBG day now...
Blood of My Enemies! I've managed to update the blog with a report of a great game of Saxon vs Norman #OnBloodyGround with Phil Turner earlier this month... Hail to England! bleaseworld.blogspot.com/2026/06/on-b...
Crushing 1937 v 448 victory for my Saxons vs Phil’s Normans in this morning’s #OnBloodyGround…
Day two of the #SharpPractice French & Indian War event in Bristol. Many scalps have been taken! #SpreadTheLard
French & Indian War action down BIG in the weekend’s #SharpPractice event #SpreadTheLard
#OnBloodyGround Dark Ages action from last night as Saxon heroes Phil and myself thwarted the depravations of the Norse valkyrie @jennyturner1971.bsky.social! Much fun had and great company...