Angus Konstam's Edinburgh Wargames

Modern Periods

While I really like the tricorne era the best, I seem to play most of my games using figures from two of these four collections. In a way that reflects the interests of the guys I wargame with here in Edinburgh, for whom the Second World War and the First World War (or rather the "Back of Beyond") are core gaming periods for them. The Vietnam stuff rarely gets an outing, but others are latching on to the period, and it'll become more popular in 2008. I used to play it as a 20mm game, concentrating on French Indochina, but I'm afraid I swapped my Viet Minh for 28mm figures suitable for Mexican Revolution (1910-20), a silly side period which will also be coming on stream soon.

 After all, many of these periods are played for laughs, or at least with tongue firmly in cheek. After all, how can you take a game set in the First World War too seriously? Otherwise it would just be too darned depressing to think about! that said, while I'll happily play the Germans in a WW1 game, its usually a cold day in hell before I'll willingly play the Nazis on a wargames table... As for Colonial games, they're another group which rarely surface, but we always enjoy ourselves when we do get round to having a game. I have a box-load of Pathans to paint, but fortunately there's a cross-over between this and our "Back of Beyond" games, which means I can use them as both Colonial and First World War opponents for someone or other - British, Russians or even Turks.

Another important factor for me is the aesthetics of a game. While there are wargamers who are quite happy playing DBM with terrain cut from carpet tiles or card, with figures based on unpainted Corn Flake packets, I'm not one of them. In fact, I regard DBM players with barely hidden scorn, wasting their time with ugly-looking little 15mm games, and truly shitty rules! For me the game has to look good, and sometimes the scenery takes precedence over the rest of the game. Just look at the pictures to see what I mean! Now, come and explore these obsessions in miniature, and be suckered even deeper into the financial and time-consuming mire that is wargaming...

                                                        The Colonial Era      (including "Darkest Africa")

                                                       The Great War         (including the "Back of Beyond")

                                              The Second World War      

                                                                Vietnam        

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