Keep Your Powder Dry

  After all the tales of woe and gnashing of teeth (see here ), I'm very pleased to report that: the BCW Project & Regimental Wiki is back! Slightly different domain though: BCW-Project.org.uk  (TL;DR a long story mostly centred around corporate greed). The Project side of things: the Project is 'as it was' when it disappeared from the internet nearly 2 years ago. The Wiki link on the front page, is the only real change, as it has been set to direct to the new regimental wiki address. Over the next few months, it will see some changes, mostly updating the formatting of pages, copyright, updating privacy policies etc. You may find some links broken (this goes for the Wiki too), these are being fixed but may take some time. You will also note that the 'contribute' feature has been disabled. There's quite a few things that need sorting out. The Project side of the site is very out of date software wise, and isn't  really mobile device friendly, so is in the...

On a trip down to that there London, I popped in to the annual wargamer festival of mass consumption (aka Salute). Sadly no Civil War display games present this year - the one that was supposed to be there was a 'no show'.  So to 'justify' my visit I purchased the Polemos* ECW rules from the Baccus stand. Yet another ruleset from Pete Berry (he is co-author with David Heading and Edward Sturges) who was looking very hassled behind the till as the EPOS system wasn't working due to poor network coverage. The 76 page rulebook is split into five sections: set up, core rules, terrain and optional rules, army generators, and appendices. Set up and core rules taking up just 28 pages. So what do you get in the rulebook? Lots of tables; good written examples and diagrams explaining rule mechanisms; lots of art by the late Lesley Prince; copious B&W photos; and 4 pages of full colour eye candy to inspire you. All for just a tenner (which at the current exchange rate is le...

Those of you who have tried to visit either the BCW Project or Regimental Wiki will notice that it is 'down'. >>>>>>>>> Update May 2025: www.BCW-Project.org.uk is now live. There's just a blog entry explaining what's going on, for now! >>>>>>>>> Update April 2025: Those of you wondering what is happening with the site data, well real life has been throwing some massive spanners in the works, so progress on restoring the site has been, to be honest, none existent. Fear not, work on restoring the site has started, and will commence in earnest soon. Unfortunately GoDaddy have parked the BCW-project.org URL and are effectively holding it for ransom. So when the site returns it will be at a slightly different address  BCW-project.org.uk We will be asking for help with the funding of the website - so if you have missed the website, it would be a very nice way of remembering the founder of the site, the late Dave Plant, by...