Welcome to my first foray into playing the Black Seas wargame- and we're going to be starting off with a very small scale game- a single ship action fought between two Brigs during the War of 1812- where HMS Pelican captured the USS Argus off of the Irish and Welsh coasts. The History of This Action This Action took place on the 14th of August 1813, with the ships spotting each other very early in the morning.  The Argus was a Brig that had escaped from the blockade of the American Ports that the Royal Navy had been conducting, with a mission to deliver an American diplomat to France (who at the time, was of course at war with Britain too). The Argus achieved its mission- and after this, her Captain, Master and Commander William Allen, decided to remain in the Atlantic and seas around Britain to disrupt merchant sailing. He and his crew were extremely successful at this, capturing and burning in the region of 20 merchantmen in a short space of time. Ultimately, this flurry of activ...

  I recently picked up this month's copy of Wargames Illustrated, which came with a free cavalry sprue from the soon to be released Epic Battles: Waterloo from Warlord Games. The idea of having smaller scale miniatures in plastic is something I'm very much a fan of- and hoping will do well so that Warlord will continue to expand on the range. The French Heavy Cavalry In regards to the miniatures themselves, I think that they look really good in the flesh. Scale wise- they're meant to be 12.5mm or 13mm- the information on this seems quite contentious with some, saying that Warlord are attempting to create a new scale. When I compared them with a Battlefront miniature (15mm scale) there wasn't a noticeable difference. The main difference is going to be that these come in strips rather than single miniatures. Admittedly, they don't have quite as much detail that a metal miniature does at this scale- and they do have identical poses, but I think that the positives outwe...