Category Archives: Scimitar Wargames Club

Scimitar Wargames Club is where I spend my Wednesday evenings, playing Miniature Wargames & Boardgames…

A very friendly club, well worth a visit

Recent gaming – Flames Above the Falklands

It’s 30 years since the Falklands War, and several of us at club, being modern war enthusiasts, thought that we might commemorate this anniversary with some gaming of a couple of the major engagements during the conflict. For the first … Continue reading

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Recent Gaming (15th February 2012)

I meant to post this last week, but got distracted with editing podcast episodes… I’ve been playing miniature games for several weeks at Scimitar Wargames Club, so it was nice to have a change of pace and play some lite … Continue reading

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Blood Bowl…Dwarfs stomped by big Crocs

I played my latest game of Blood Bowl at Scimitar Wargames Group last week, and got well and truly stomped by Garry’s Lizardman team. Whilst the loss to the Lizards was hurtful, it was somewhat mitigated by losing to such … Continue reading

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Wonder-full game

It was primarily a boardgame session at Scimitar this week, with only one miniature wargame being played. On the other boardgame table, the guys were played Mansions of Madness (the new Cthuhlu themed game from FFG) for the first time. … Continue reading

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Cold War Commander AAR, 15th September 2010

Last week, we played a game of Cold War Commander, using the airborne assault scenario - Defence of RAF Göinsloh, Germany, 1981 Units from a Russian airborne brigade were assaulting a British RAF base, garrisoned by forces of the RAF Regiment. … Continue reading

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Gaming, Wednesday 11th August

The last few weeks have been a bit ‘funny’, with me averaging a trip to Scimitar only every other week -it seems somewhat typical of the club, as it’s been fairly quiet of late. However, last week was particularly fun, … Continue reading

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Gaming Night – Wednesday 27th January 2010

After missing last week due to family issues, it was good to get along to Scimitar again last night – I hadn’t arranged anything, and so it was very ‘up in the air’ as to what game I’d finally end … Continue reading

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Ghost Stories – Oh, the horror!

Last night was another meeting of Scimitar Wargames Group. Since this is the Wednesday closest to Halloween, we traditionally play games  with a ‘horror’ focus. I got to play Ghost Stories, which is a co-operative game which was released last … Continue reading

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Shadows Over Camelot – how many ways to lose?

Last night saw another meeting of Scimitar Wargames Group, and it was good to see a healthy number there this week – 15 as opposed to the 4 of us from the week before! Whilst several people took part in … Continue reading

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Going to Manorcon?

Manorcon is only a week away – are you going? “What on earth is Manorcon?” I hear you ask… Manorcon is a 4 day boardgames convention, held at Stamford Hall, at the University of Leicester. This year it’s running from … Continue reading

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Snow Tails – first game at Scimitar

One of my unplanned purchases (and yes, I don’t impulse buy all the time) at the UK Games Expo last weekend was Snow Tails. I had a demo of the game and liked both the game play and the presentation … Continue reading

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Scimitar Wargames Group – new website

Scimitar Wargames Group have now launched their new look website. You can find it at www.scimitarwargames.org.uk

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Scimitar Wargames – 26th November

Last Wednesday saw the latest meeting of Scimitar Wargames Group, and this time, the group was divided into only 2 groups… Martin, Tony and I played Duel In The Dark, complete with the new Baby Blitz expansion, which adds a … Continue reading

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Scimitar Wargames Group – 19th November

Last Wednesday saw about a dozen of us gather together for another Scimtar games night. Pete, Tony and Phillip played Ancients (again) – DBM this time (I think) Whilst Bob, Gary, Tony & Martin played Blikzkrieg Commander – a late … Continue reading

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Three weeks in gaming at Scimitar

I’ve been a bit remiss in updating this blog with gaming session reports recently – mainly because I keep forgetting to take my camera with me to games nights! So, what have I been up to over the past few … Continue reading

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Scimitar Wargames Club – 15th October

This last Wednesday saw another meeting of Scimitar Wargames Club. Tony brought in War of the Ring, which was played by Tony, myself, Bob and Jere. An excellent game, which I will be looking at more closely in a future … Continue reading

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Scimitar Wargames Club – 8th October

After the quiet evening of the previous week, we had a room-full of people for this week’s Scimitar Wargames Club meeting. Phil, Richard (plus partner), Tony and Pete played HOTT, whilst Andy and Pete had another play through Impetus. Meanwhile, … Continue reading

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Scimitar Wargames Club – 1st October 2008

A dedicated few joined together at Scimitar Wargames Club this week, but the gaming was highly anticipated, as Bob had just received his copy of A Touch of Evil. Since there were 6 of us (Bob, Andy, Gary, Martin, Tony … Continue reading

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Scimitar Wargames Group – 24th September

Scimitar Wargames Group met this week as usual, and once again I forgot to take my camera. Tonight saw many of us involved in a large, 7-player game of Arkham Horror. This is a co-operative board game based on the writings of … Continue reading

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Scimitar Watgames Club – 17th September

As usual, Scimitar Wargames Club met last night – though I forgot to take my camera, so no pictures this time. Well, it looked like the club went slightly Napoleonic crazy, as there was no less that three games of … Continue reading

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