Holiday Greetings From VSF And 15mm Science Fiction Gaming

From Our Lot To Yours All The Best This Christmas!

Holiday Greetings From His Imperial Majesty

Greetings from His Imperial Majesty to all his forces around
the world and solar system, although you may be far from the
Fatherland, know that you are in our thoughts during this
joyous time of year, and that your service is held in our highest
esteem.Got Mit Uns....

Victorian Sci-fi Prussians

From The Random Encounters Game Club,A small page to preserve the activities of some chaps from Denmark 

http://therandomencounter.blogspot.com/2009/07/victorian-sci-fi-prussians.html

Changing Of The Guard

This is the first day of the "changing of the guard Ceremonies" in Halifax Nova Scotia its the 100th Anniversery of British Imperial forces leaving their last operational base and garrison in Halifax, I have and will have allot more pictures, there are and will be hundreds of re-enactors portraying military history both Canadian and British from 1749-present, today there were guys from the famed British re-enactment group "The Die Hards" portraying 1780's Line regiment "Duke of Cambriges own Middlesex regiment"

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=86421
 

Tsar1701: Steamtank 'HECATE'

From Those Likely Lads On The Lead Adventure Forum!

http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=14843.0

Attack On Melbourne

Interesting details of a colonial harbour defense plan (minus the aerostats and aquanefs of course!)

http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j35/kitson.asp

Imperial German Painting Guides

Prussians are notorious about looking just right after all

Reading German would be handy for this one, but is not essential
http://www.grosser-generalstab.de/

but this one is all in English:
http://www.kaisersbunker.com/gtp

The Flying Cloud, R-505

It is a world much like our own, except that the Great War
ended in 1916. As the Powers recoiled, exhausted, from the
tragedies of Verdun and the Sommes, Woodrow Wilson was
able to negotiate an Armistice that returned Europe to its
pre-War borders. (For this accomplishment, he was honored
with the Nobel Prize, though this was later tarnished by the
failure of his long-sought League of Nations.) With the forcing
ground of military need removed, aircraft development took
a different path from the one it followed in our world, and
effort that might have been wasted on developing glamorous
but impractical aeroplanes was spent perfecting the far more
capable airships. As the 1920's drew to a close, the world was
peaceful and prosperous, linked by fleets of mighty lighter-
than-air vessels from many nations.

http://airships.paulgazis.com/index.htm

The Madasahatta Campaign

History of Madasahatta

• Madasahatta is a large island approximately 110 miles wide and 160 miles long, lying in the Indian Ocean off the East coast of Africa, some 300 miles east of Zanzibar.

• It had been left in the hands of its native tribes for hundreds of years, except for the Arab trading town. Port Maleesh, on the River Ogopogo in the south-east, which was established by treaty between the Sultan of Zanzibar and the Whoppituppas in 1784.

• Very little interest was shown by European countries until the discovery of gold deposits in the Bloemingstip Mountains in 1891. This event was rapidly followed by colonies being founded, first by the Germans, who established HANSALAND in Central Madasahatta in 1894, followed by the British who established NEW SURREY in the south-west of the island two years later. After several diplomatic incidents, an agreed border between the-two colonies running along the centreline of the Bloemingstip mountains was drawn by the Treaty of Badlikortout in 1898.

• It was rapidly discovered that the HANSA OST AFRIKA company knew what they were doing, and all the gold deposits were on the German side of the mountain range. Queen Victoria made it plain that she was not amused by this fact, and the policy of British Governors of New Surrey since then has been to find some plausible reason for extending the colony in a northerly direction.

• http://www.colonialwargaming.co.uk/Inspiration/Madasahatta/Madasahatta.htm

Wargaming The Russian Civil War

http://www.hodgenet.co.uk/RCW/reds.htm