Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 2hThink I need a lot of brown paint in my immediate future! 1110
Reposted by Steve BleaseJohn Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Jeremy Briggs catches up with Commando editor Kate McAuliffe as the title hits its 6000th issue...downthetubes.net6000 Not Out: A Chat with Commando Editor Kate McAuliffeJeremy Briggs catches up with Commando editor as the title hits its 6000th issue... 034
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A lot of counter-factual invasion of Victorian Britain fans use The Battle of Dorking as the basis of the gaming backgrounds. Le Queux's two books (one a French invasion, the second a German one) have much more interesting material within - and you can get both in one e-book for 99p...amazon.co.ukTHE INVASION OF 1910 & THE GREAT WAR IN ENGLAND IN 1897 (Annotated): Enriched Edition. British Invasion Fiction, Military Futurism, and Pre–World War I EspionageTHE INVASION OF 1910 & THE GREAT WAR IN ENGLAND IN 1897 (Annotated): Enriched Edition. British Invasion Fiction, Military Futurism, and Pre–World War I Espionage eBook : Le Queux, William, e-artnow, Mordenby, Corin, Mordenby, Corin: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store 061
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Some photos from an #Écorcheurs game played during the week - just a bash 'em up game to introduce the mechanisms to a new player, not sure that gives the best experience... 0250
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just back from the second Indian Mutiny #SharpPractice event organised by indefatigable Phil Turner @ Bristol Independent Gaming - an excellent weekend of fun gaming with a great bunch of people, colourful armies & a menagerie of local fauna causing problems to both sides! #SpreadTheLard #Wargaming 2421
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 17/09/2026These books are a good fun read for anyone interested in the English Civil War period - and this a cracking deal on Kindle...amazon.co.ukA Rake's Progress: A Blandford Candy OmnibusA Rake's Progress: A Blandford Candy Omnibus eBook : Evans, Jemahl: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store 040
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Tested @andycrow.bsky.social's Big CoC game for #ClottedLard last night - if you're playing it Saturday I hope you do better than Comrade Jack and myself otherwise Slovakia will still be part of the Third Reich! 🤦♂️ #speardthelard #wargaming #chainofcommand 0211
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The US DoD has clearly been suppressing this #ForceOnForce AAR from an action fought in downtown Falafel last summer against the Tamarud Alghurab insurgency! bleaseworld.blogspot.com/2026/09/forc...bleaseworld.blogspot.comForce on Force: FUBAR in Falafel!With Phil away on his annual August holibobs, Andy and I like to sneak in some games that don't appeal to Phil, and as I started looking at ... 1100
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 15/09/2026#BattlegroupNORTHAG battle report from the Fulda Gap as Soviet forces attempt to break through a gap in the American line near Petersberg... #wargaming #coldwar #joyofsix #micromarmourbleaseworld.blogspot.comBattlegroup NORTHAG: Clash at PetersbergDespite plans to get at least one game of Battlegroup NORTHAG in a month in 2026, it was almost eight before Andy and I got the 6mm Cold Wa... 0193
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Perhaps I need to pick up a copy of this to encourage me to dust off my #ArmouredStorm tanks? 🤔 030
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory from the jaws of defeat playing #OnBloodyGround with Phil. After a disastrous start losing four units in two turns & inflicting minimal casualties my Ancients Germans had the Romans on the ropes before an extremely lucky dice roll saved their bacon! 2233
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 06/09/2026A second @warlordgames.com Landsknecht pike block for #NeverMindTheBillhooks and #OnBloodyGround though planing to take the pike blocks up to 30 figures for the latter now I have the book. Lovely figures... #ItalianWars #RenaissanceWargaming #Wargaming 2332
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Played a 750pt company level #BattlegroupNORTHAG West German vs Soviets game last night to introduce Phil and Jenny to the game. It went right down to the wire (Soviets only had 10 BR left as Germans hit 0). @andycrow.bsky.social was happy he managed to recover a broken down Leopard with his ARV! 2293
Reposted by Steve BleaseCount Belisarius @countbelisarius.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Well these, from @northstarfigs.bsky.social and due later this month look rather tasty... #wargaming 3392
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 30/08/2026More research material from the seventies inbound. Obviously I was too young to remember the Yellow Moon invasion when it happened but this should fill the gap in my military knowledge! 😀 061
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 29/08/2026@lordraglan.bsky.social presumably you'll be including this sign somewhere on your terrain! 😳 1110
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 26/08/2026News from India as despatches reach London of a skirmish fought at the village of Roti and Major Hugh Janus and his Sikhs try to capture rebel chapati baker Naan Poppadom! #SharpPractice #SpreadTheLard #Wargaming bleaseworld.blogspot.com/2026/08/shar...bleaseworld.blogspot.comSharp Practice: The Man From PeshwarinaanAs a follow up to playing Andy's 'Man From Del Monte' scenario in the Peninsular, Phil and I decided to transport it to Bengal and replay... 0181
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 26/08/2026ACW action at Windmill Hill as Union and Confederate forces try to seize a strategically located observation post using #OnBloodyGround ACW rules. Excellent evening hosted by Phil & Jenny with @andycrow.bsky.social my chauffeur! Surprised how well the rules worked, very bloody! 0222
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The Soviet liberation of West Germany comes to a crashing halt today as @andycrow.bsky.social's Bundeswehr halt the advancing Red Army in today's game of #BattlegroupNORTHAG 0345
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Some 1/300th planes painted up for #AirWarC21 and other 6mm AIW games... Egyptian MiG-21s and Israeli Shahaks (Dassault Mirage IIIC), Dassault MD.450 Ouragans and Dassault Super Mystère B2s. 0202
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 19/08/2026#AirWarC21 action during the War of Attrition 1970 as Egyptian MiG-21's encounter Israeli Mirages over the Sinai. A dogfight ensued in which one Mirage was shot down and the other damaged but managing to escape. 0151
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 18/08/2026With pike and codpiece incoming... www.wipgamesandminiatures.com/catalogue/on... 160
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 16/08/2026A couple of the guys were playing @warlordgames.com Epic ECW down Bristol Independent Gaming today so I took a few photos which I thought you might like to see as it looked pretty cool... 0131
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Took son and heir to a #BattletechAlphaStrike day at BIG today and we both had a lot of fun despite me only having played the game once before three years ago and him never. Of course I now have to paint the six big stomp robots we came away with... 😀 090
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Great day of playing #BattlegroupNORTHAG with @andycrow.bsky.social, Rob and Ben. 6mm battalion level game, unfortunately we ran out of time before reaching a conclusion (it was finely balanced at the end) but had a lot of fun - and I've never seen anyone roll as many 1's as Ben ever! 😂 0151
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 15/08/2026💭 Maybe time to dust off the stalled 10mm Pony Wars project next year? 🤔 1150
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Pig rustling #Écorcheurs action down BIG last night with @andycrow.bsky.social and Jack. Once again the pesky English archers got the better of the French (who could not strike anything) but the pig escaped so I'm claiming a technical draw! 1272
Reposted by Steve BleaseJohn Freeman @johnfreeman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Another Warlord comic favourite is back this week, as this week's Commando set of war comics sees the return of Leutnant Kurt Stahlmann and his trusty Junkers Ju 52, "Iron Annie"downthetubes.netWarlord’s “Iron Annie” returns in CommandoAnother Warlord comic favourite is back this week, in a new Commando story 052
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Whilst on dog-sitting duty and missing out of a day of #BattlegroupNORTHAG with @andycrow.bsky.social I did manage to finish the first pike block of @warlordgames.com Landsknechts for the Italian Wars project... 0253
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 04/08/2026First game of #Écorcheurs tonight, @andycrow.bsky.social did a sterling job trying to understand and get us to play the rules properly! Undoubtedly we did many things wrong but was fun so will be trying it again next week. Welsh bowmen behind a wall are best not attacked over open ground! 1371
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The rest of the troops for tonight's First Barons War #Écorcheurs game (they will be doing double duty with #LionRampant for bigger games which is why they are in twelves) - all from the @wargamesatlantic.bsky.social plastic range... 1344
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Some First Barons War knights for our inaugural game of #Écorcheurs tomorrow evening... 1723
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Great game of #BattlegroupNORTHAG with @andycrow.bsky.social today. Didn't quite have enough time to finish but after their vanguard getting badly smashed the tide was turning the Soviet way as the US Battle Rating started falling badly as they started to lose more of their valuable tanks. 1263
Reposted by Steve BleaseShed O War Games - with Des Darkin @desmondo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026ACW Wargame Miniature Wargame rules are available. Pre-Orders Open Now! Shed O' War Games has launched, and pre-orders are officially open for our American Civil War tabletop wargaming ruleset! www.shedowargames.co.uk #ACWWargaming #HistoricalWargaming #wargaming #wargamers #MiniatureWargaming 55214
Reposted by Steve BleaseIn Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Please join me in congratulating Steve for trying his best! (And making himself this award) 723821
Reposted by Steve BleaseRaglan 🇺🇦 @lordraglan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026For Sale: Norse Mythology. These are the remaining painted miniatures for sale at a bargain price. Gods £10 each and dragoons £20 each. 0247
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Written up my experience of the #OnBloodyGround Dark Ages day last month... bleaseworld.blogspot.com/2026/07/on-b... 0272
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I'll will not be tempted... I'll will not be tempted... I'll will not be tempted... Curse you @warlordgames.com 2121
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Awful, awful AI generated book cover, but... the idea seems a lot of fun and I do have a quite a few zombies... 🤔 5100
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 12/07/2026More @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... 0221
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Battle 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... 2463
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 08/07/2026WW2 Far East #ChainOfCommand action tonight as @andycrow.bsky.social’s Japanese were treated to a good kicking in the jungles of Burma… #SpreadTheLard 0231
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Painted 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) 1273
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Due 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... 030
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 04/07/2026"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... 010
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Got far too many half started projects on the go so what's one more eh? 🤦♂️ Miniatures are lovely... #ItalianWars #NeverMindTheBillhooks #OnBloodyGround 1190
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Taking 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... 110
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Some almost finished #Foundry Landsknecht handgunners - happy how these have come up thanks to the wonder of @sonicsledgehammer.bsky.social’s Marine Juice! 1333
Steve Blease @ironcow2103.bsky.social · 01/07/2026As 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... 2151
