Palousewargamingjournal

A small update from the painting desk today.  Begun under the shadow of the four-game series refighting Montebello, two Austrian cavalry batteries muster out from the painting desk.  Too late to participate at Montebello, these artillerymen will be ready for service when they are next called into action.  Still pondering bringing Marengo to the table but other gam...

Sitting down for meaningful work at the painting desk has posed a real challenge the last two months.  May productivity was looking rather grim until I managed to get in some quality time at the workbench this week.  Besides sticking together a bunch of Perry WotR plastic figures, these Syrian archers emerge from the production line.Out from the desk today march 22 Syr...

Today, we consider a follow-up question in Wargame, Soldiers, and Strategy's The Great Wargaming Survey (GWS), 2025 edition.  In a previous installment, I examined the question of opponent availability at a high level (see Do You Have Enough Opponents?).  From that analysis, I concluded that wargamers, often, find themselves isolated from available opponents ...

On Mother's Day, Nancy and I (and Milo) packed up the car and began our 450-mile road trip to meet two of my sisters in Manzanita, Oregon for a week on the coast.  Curiously, a few days before the trip, the photo above popped up on my PC as Bing wallpaper.  Coincidence or not?  Anyway, the photo in the wallpaper shows Ecola State Park.  In the background...

Blogger seems to have lost the ability to pick up my post feed, and the thumbnail widget no longer appears in Blogs Followed widget.This is a test as I troubleshoot.  My previous post went almost completely unnoticed without the thumbnail "tickler" in the widget.