The Board Turn'd Upside Down
@theboardturned.bsky.social
An American's adventures in historical miniature wargaming: English Civil War, Victorian wars, early 20th century and beyond. Card-carrying True Leveller 🚩 Main acct: @redpgh.com
Second game of Chain of Command with @buckyizzy.bsky.social! 🇲🇲 1945: The bloody British assault on the Kyat Phud Kan monastery peters out amid stubborn Japanese defense, but a mortar barrage and a Sherman of Probyn's Horse threaten to break the deadlock! Battle inconclusive due to lunch.
October 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Second game of Chain of Command with @buckyizzy.bsky.social! 🇲🇲 1945: The bloody British assault on the Kyat Phud Kan monastery peters out amid stubborn Japanese defense, but a mortar barrage and a Sherman of Probyn's Horse threaten to break the deadlock! Battle inconclusive due to lunch.
Further Burma progress for Chain of Command: A couple platoons' worth of British and Gurkhas, and the medieval Buddhist holy site of Kyat Phūd Kan (cat food can) #wargaming
Note: US pennies seemed like a good idea for bases at the time. They were decidedly not!
Note: US pennies seemed like a good idea for bases at the time. They were decidedly not!
October 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Further Burma progress for Chain of Command: A couple platoons' worth of British and Gurkhas, and the medieval Buddhist holy site of Kyat Phūd Kan (cat food can) #wargaming
Note: US pennies seemed like a good idea for bases at the time. They were decidedly not!
Note: US pennies seemed like a good idea for bases at the time. They were decidedly not!
Poor man's Burma continues to expand: A table's worth of jungle and bamboo, plus some foamcore-and-varnish rice paddies. Elmer's glue and green sand doing a great deal of work here! #wargaming
September 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Poor man's Burma continues to expand: A table's worth of jungle and bamboo, plus some foamcore-and-varnish rice paddies. Elmer's glue and green sand doing a great deal of work here! #wargaming
Foam-and-paper Nagaland continues to grow! #wargaming
September 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Foam-and-paper Nagaland continues to grow! #wargaming
Florist foam + cheap plastic trees + old Axis & Allies minis = extremely cheap Burma setting (in progress) for learning Chain of Command!
August 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Florist foam + cheap plastic trees + old Axis & Allies minis = extremely cheap Burma setting (in progress) for learning Chain of Command!
Beach vacation reading list a pretty good cross-section of my obsessions
August 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Beach vacation reading list a pretty good cross-section of my obsessions
Taught a friend Pikeman's Lament today. His Royalists walloped my Parliamentarians at a loosely recreated Battle of Bramber Bridge (1643). The River Arun is lost! #wargaming
July 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Taught a friend Pikeman's Lament today. His Royalists walloped my Parliamentarians at a loosely recreated Battle of Bramber Bridge (1643). The River Arun is lost! #wargaming
First run of Fistful of Lead: Horse and Musket was a success! A skirmish on the streets of Paris ended with Ethos of the King's Harquebusiers rescuing two spies from a band of mercenaries.
The mercenary leader was left badly wounded after finding himself on the wrong end of a pike. #wargaming
The mercenary leader was left badly wounded after finding himself on the wrong end of a pike. #wargaming
July 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
First run of Fistful of Lead: Horse and Musket was a success! A skirmish on the streets of Paris ended with Ethos of the King's Harquebusiers rescuing two spies from a band of mercenaries.
The mercenary leader was left badly wounded after finding himself on the wrong end of a pike. #wargaming
The mercenary leader was left badly wounded after finding himself on the wrong end of a pike. #wargaming
I've determined Perry ACW rioters are the ticket! Now to create 1848/Paris Commune skirmishes with my lovely new Parisian terrain. How fitting that this idea struck me on Bastille Day 🇫🇷🚩🏴
July 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I've determined Perry ACW rioters are the ticket! Now to create 1848/Paris Commune skirmishes with my lovely new Parisian terrain. How fitting that this idea struck me on Bastille Day 🇫🇷🚩🏴
Now reading! A year ago I was looking to recreate big battles with as much complexity as I could muster. Now I look for such phrases as "one hour," "Hollywood style" and "as few as five miniatures" (having small kids may be a factor).
#wargaming
#wargaming
July 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Now reading! A year ago I was looking to recreate big battles with as much complexity as I could muster. Now I look for such phrases as "one hour," "Hollywood style" and "as few as five miniatures" (having small kids may be a factor).
#wargaming
#wargaming
Four down, one (the big, intimidating one) to go. Never got Warbases before; these look really cool!
June 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Four down, one (the big, intimidating one) to go. Never got Warbases before; these look really cool!
New Bloody Minis and some buildings from @warbases.bsky.social from across the Atlantic today! I'd say it's like Christmas, but my Puritan forces would never accept the comparison
June 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New Bloody Minis and some buildings from @warbases.bsky.social from across the Atlantic today! I'd say it's like Christmas, but my Puritan forces would never accept the comparison
Next up for swashbuckling games: the Spanish royal guardsman Don Alfonso Gazpacho de Migas y de las Tortillas
June 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Next up for swashbuckling games: the Spanish royal guardsman Don Alfonso Gazpacho de Migas y de las Tortillas
Game of Devilry Afoot today! Our French adventurers and the local blacksmith were mauled, but left two werewolves badly wounded. Now our heroes may turn into wolves themselves in the next game...
June 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Game of Devilry Afoot today! Our French adventurers and the local blacksmith were mauled, but left two werewolves badly wounded. Now our heroes may turn into wolves themselves in the next game...
Finished my New Model Army radicals -- they'll serve as a faction for any swashbuckling skirmish game in need of True Levelling or a Fifth Monarchy
#wargaming #miniaturepainting
#wargaming #miniaturepainting
June 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Finished my New Model Army radicals -- they'll serve as a faction for any swashbuckling skirmish game in need of True Levelling or a Fifth Monarchy
#wargaming #miniaturepainting
#wargaming #miniaturepainting
"Devilry Afoot" terrain: Pull an appropriately evil rock from the backyard and draw on demonic sigils from 17th-century grimoires
June 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"Devilry Afoot" terrain: Pull an appropriately evil rock from the backyard and draw on demonic sigils from 17th-century grimoires
Seeing little chance of victory, the survivors retreat back into the swamp. The Royalists reinforce the defenses and hold Rhys House easily. One more defeat like this and my commander will face the wrath of a parliamentary committee!
June 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Seeing little chance of victory, the survivors retreat back into the swamp. The Royalists reinforce the defenses and hold Rhys House easily. One more defeat like this and my commander will face the wrath of a parliamentary committee!
With much of the attacking army melting away, a desperate charge by the cavalry fails to turn things around -- they're slaughtered on the fieldworks. The swashbuckling Haquebusiers haven't even unsheathed their blades!
June 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
With much of the attacking army melting away, a desperate charge by the cavalry fails to turn things around -- they're slaughtered on the fieldworks. The swashbuckling Haquebusiers haven't even unsheathed their blades!
After a brief moment in the sun, Parliament's men waver under fire. Soon the commander himself -- already under close watch after a defeat last month -- flees the field.
June 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
After a brief moment in the sun, Parliament's men waver under fire. Soon the commander himself -- already under close watch after a defeat last month -- flees the field.
The Parliamentarian commander personally leads a charge into the defenses, kicking off a long and bloody exchange of fire inside the trench.
June 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Parliamentarian commander personally leads a charge into the defenses, kicking off a long and bloody exchange of fire inside the trench.
The battle begins poorly for Parliament's right, with Royalist musket fire routing a section of shot and decimating the attacking cavalry. Defending reinforcements arrive swiftly.
June 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The battle begins poorly for Parliament's right, with Royalist musket fire routing a section of shot and decimating the attacking cavalry. Defending reinforcements arrive swiftly.
Today in Pikeman's Lament: The defense of Rhys House. A Royalist detachment (aided by French heroes the Three Haquebusiers) tries to fend off a Parliamentarian flanking attack made from a swamp. #wargaming
June 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Today in Pikeman's Lament: The defense of Rhys House. A Royalist detachment (aided by French heroes the Three Haquebusiers) tries to fend off a Parliamentarian flanking attack made from a swamp. #wargaming
I love the detail on these Bloody minis. Was going to make this guy a Leveller with the Agreement of the People in his hat band, and sure enough he's already sculpted with one! #miniaturepainting
May 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I love the detail on these Bloody minis. Was going to make this guy a Leveller with the Agreement of the People in his hat band, and sure enough he's already sculpted with one! #miniaturepainting
Working on a friendly Parliamentarian who calls upon the LORD GOD to destroy the popish antichrist
May 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Working on a friendly Parliamentarian who calls upon the LORD GOD to destroy the popish antichrist
Oh, and the cannon is also Warlord, but metal
May 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Oh, and the cannon is also Warlord, but metal