Napoleonics was my first love in wargaming before falling down the rabbit hole that led to the period of floppy hats and tricorns. While I...

Barry Hilton has started his long promised commitment to video content. He has made a short introductory video to Mad for War which I have u...

Just a quick note to announce that Republic to Empire is now available in PDF form. As with BLB you can order hi-res and lo-res versions....

Le Roi Soleil Miniatures is the new stockist in North America for Warfare Miniatures. Besides carrying the full line of Warfare Miniatur...

With BLB2 behind us, the next book is on the way - no rest for the wicked. This will be for the Crimean War, working title is FOUR EMPIRE...

Recently I noticed the editor of The Miniature Page posted a poll, "Rate Republic to Empire". This sort of thing is meat and potat...

Barry Hilton has been running mini-conventions in the UK we've been calling 'weekenders'. These are two day affairs featuring hu...

Last game and with a third variation on the set up. This time, Barry moved the village to the east end of the bridge and there were THREE fo...

For the next round of our Republic to Empire, Barry and I wanted to try something different. Though the terrain and goals were essentially t...

This is the first of three posts to show some of the photos I took of our Napoleonic game. These aren't true 'after action reports...

Tomorrow I'll be heading for home. At times the schedule we set for ourselves was very hectic, but it has been a fantastic trip! Barry H...

The British won the battle of Talavera, but were forced to retreat all the same as French reinforcements arrived. The British formed a new d...

The event list for Historicon 2010 has been up for a couple of days. Barry and I will be running six games over the course of the conventio...

Barry Hilton hosted the first REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE weekender over the... err... last weekend. Kind of a mini convention where he booked a hall...

I wrote a post a few months back on modeling your Napoleonic forces without the crutch of using army lists ( No Army Lists? No Problem! ) an...

Being involved in publishing a book in some ways is a very surreal experience. Barry Hilton and I spent over a year working on Republic to E...

Last week I finally got my hands on some of the cool Order Markers for REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE. Each set comes with 14 counters, two of each Brig...

Charging on!   Barry has started a new feature in his gallery on the LoA site to illustrate unit types and sizes for playing games with R...

REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE is the Napoleonic rules that I worked on with Barry Hilton. The general impression I've gotten from reading forums an...

Just a quick post to get a pic of a couple of my French battalions on the blog (and get 'French' listed in the sidebar). These are F...