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vauban and shandy toy soldier garden wargaming vauban and shandy toy soldier garden wargaming featured post garden campaigns at last available now garden campaigns is now available from garden campaigns garden campaigns is the second volume of funny little wars it continues the st friday 1 may 2026 campaign readiness the canadian naval service stand to there is much excitement in the true north as the canadian naval service prepares for action following much debate prime minister laurier has launched his fleet for canada and the empire from the toronto globe pm laurier at the helm hearty chaps needed they stand on guard for thee note the light cruiser in the background the funny little fleets canadian scout cruiser is cleared for action hmcs niobe in dry dock posted by funny little wars 2 comments monday 27 april 2026 campaign readiness armoured cruiser the spring weather has arrived at flw hq and the fleets are ready the armoured cruiser has been rebuilt over the winter in a very rough homage to the new york and is now ready to go the ship s company have now joined and are set for the first encounter the armoured cruiser can also be deployed with higher funnels making it more like the brooklyn posted by funny little wars 3 comments saturday 4 april 2026 north american station the refitted barbette battleship spring has arrived at flw hq and the restored battleship is completed this ship is designed as an edwardian colonial coastal battleship and again produced in comic scale for use with 25mm figures the fleets are now nearly ready just one more turret ship to be completed and a balloon barge it will then be time to go on campaign again types of barbette ship the ship is finished in the black hull white superstructure and canary funnel the fleet at halifax nova scotia posted by funny little wars 2 comments saturday 20 december 2025 north american station battleship on the slipway the british canadian fleet needs a battleship for the eventual campaign so a little rebuilding has been required the former swedish imaginary turret ship the gustav 4th has been refitted here she is in action sinking in her last outing of the herring war against jw s norwegians abandon ship prior to her swedish service she was under the danish flag as a torpedo ram the weapon of the future pictured here at the top of the photo in 2013 again she would be sunk by the norwegians under the command of tg pictured here at dusk as the danes made a desperate attempt to break the blockade the latest version of this long serving ship will be as a colonial coastal battleship there are high hopes of success this time as the american accuracy in their last outing at santiago bay was rated at 1 3 of shots on target posted by funny little wars 1 comment tuesday 9 december 2025 north american station british squadron scout cruiser the newly built canadian naval service scout cruiser is launched and ready for action she is pictured here on her first outing the aim is to create an edwardian toy ship effect and the fittings and fixtures are 28mm the hull is considerably smaller the british squadron will be on the defensive and the flagship will be a colonial style barbette ship based on hmvs cerberus the turrets have been swapped for the heavy armstrong cannon two torpedo boats and a couple of smaller axillaries make up the squadron posted by funny little wars 3 comments saturday 18 october 2025 north american station shipyards and scales well winter quarters has arrived with the light failing before 18h in the metro flw hq the coming campaign is a typically wellsian imaginary scenario set around the coastal waters of nova scotia it will be played with edwardian style toy ships and proper toys soldiers naval wargaming has always held a great fascination for me and there are many different scales available for flw it is sadly impossible to go for 1 32 with ships so a compromise has been to use a rough 28mm scale for the figures even in this scale the ships would be impossibly long so our dear friend tg came up with comic scale which gives all the attributes of the vessel type but in a stylised way this style really suits pre dreadnoughts and monitors c as it is winter quarters here is one of the edwardian style ships at the yard it will be roughly the light cruiser hmcs rainbow of the new canadian naval service the model will require two funnels and a pointed bow and two main deck guns to begin a suitable shape is required the hull will be formed from a wooden container with an art board base to give that light cruiser ram bow plastic card is now added to make the hull shape deck and bridge structures are added the paint scheme will be a wartime dark grey and this adds to the period feel of some ships in the victorian edwardian white and buff and others in grey the torpedo boats are always black posted by funny little wars 1 comment thursday 9 october 2025 the north american campaign 190 the great white fleet v britannia readers of funny little wars and garden campaigns will be well aware that there has always been a naval component to the garden game this fascination with pre dreadnoughts began for me in the 1970 s with 1 1200 scale models and the discovery of the fred t jane naval wargame which is the contemporary game to hg s little wars this aspect of flw really took off in 2003 when i played baltic battles with the naval wargames writer ken fisher most appropriately these early games were played in dover castle the imaginary herring war series of battles took this concept into the garden with 28mm ships tarpaulin seas 1 32 forts and a fusion of rules that included ft jane s ken fisher s and the lovely boilers and breechloaders system from patrick wilson the first publisher of flw the games then moved to the spanish american war and the russo japanese war this winter quarters will be dedicated to a flw naval campaign based in north america in 190 it will be feature a fascinating connection between ft jane and 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