Best of the Blogs I Follow: 8-27 August 2015

I. AAR's & Convention Reviews

Anatoli's Game Room: Fight for the Factories--Chain of Command

Genie in a Bottle--Frostgrave

Sobieski versus Turk--By Fire and Sword

Association Les Riflemen: Liberty or Death, 1778

Chalanek Station: The Battle at Rinaldo's Rest, The Crucible

Chicago Skirmish Wargames: Battle in the Ruins, Frostgrave

Lower Wacker Hive Campaign Game #3, Necromunda

The Grimy Jewel Campaign, Song of Blades and Heroes

Crapid Fire: Yellow Rose of Messier 67, Gruntz

Protect the Patriarch--Clash on the Fringe

Daluappror: Crossing the Stream at Ekeshultssjon 1678, Pikemen's Lament

Morning Assault, The Pikeman´s Lament

Dux Rampant A Leisurely Stroll (ECW), Lion Puissant (Lion Rampant for ECW)

Norman Defeat at Mal Fosse, Lion Rampant

I Have Wrought My Simple Plan: Blood Feud, Lion Rampant

Irregular Wars: Cu Chulainn Cup, 2015

Defense of Rheged, Dux Bellorum

Jay's Wargaming Madness: Somewhere in the Mediterranean, Galleys, Guns & Glory

JJ's Wargames: Probe at La Cambe, Chain of Command

Lard Island News: In the Green Zone Again, Fighting Season

Legatus' Wargames Armies: Pulp

Lonely Gamers: The Good versus the Bad, Dead Man's Hand

Mars Miniatures: Tyrion versus the Cult of Cthulu, Episodes 1-5

Finale to the Defense...a Beholder!

Welcome to the Jungle, Parts 1-5

Matt's Gaming Page: Lord of the Rings Battle, Playtest of Dragon Rampant

Miniature Mayhem: Stalemate in Karelia

Much Ado About Nothing: Battle of Lugio, 1745, Imaginations with Black Powder

Natholeon's Empire: Attempted Relief of Marienburg 1702, One Hour Wargame

Occasional Ambush: Power Vacuum in Zoswete, AK47

The Raft: Meet the Neighbors--Dux Brittaniarum

Rebel Barracks: Russians vs. French 1812, General de Brigade

Sharp End of the Brush: Empire versus Easterners, Chaos Wars

Sparker's Wargame Blog: the Muleshoe, Longstreet

Tales from GHQ: Disaster at Brecher's Bay, Black Powder

Tom's Toy Soldiers: Age of Sigmar

Wargamerabbit: French versus Bavarians, 1815

St. Aignan de Cramesnil, Flames of War

Wargaming & WIPS: Weekend at the Perry's

Wargaming in Sverige: Scanian War, Form Line of Battle

Wargaming Miscellany: Last Stand--One Hour Wargame

Warlords of Mars: Railroads & Lizardmen

II. Battle Projects, Campaigns & Unit Histories

Age of Feuilleton: Sandtomb (AKAFrostgrave) background

Dust, Tears & Dice: The Water Margin Project

Fawcett Avenue Conscripts: Starting a Campaign, Wings of Glory

Horus Heresy Campaign--Defense of Orask

Ion Age: Shia Khan Empire FREE PDF

It's Them! Blast Em! Tank Project

JJ's Wargames: 1/8e Regiment de Ligne

3/96e Regiment de Ligne

Mac's Little Friends: Frostgrave Reskinned to Thawgrave

Marengo 1800: 1o Reggimento Veneto Real, 1797

Not Just Old School Wargaming: La Haye Sainte at 1:3 continues

Tiny Solitary Soldiers: Building Frostgrave Units in 15mm, Barbarians

Orcs

Wargaming Miscellany: Finishes his Old School Waterloo Project with Officers

Wargaming with Silver Whistle: Prepping for a British Para Battle in WWII

III. Miscellaneous, Observations & Travel

Brooklyn Wargaming: AWI Boardgames

League of Augsberg: Ireland Campaign Book

Scrivsland: Trip to Verdun Parts 1& 2

Wargaming Miscellany: Firepower Through the Ages at Dover Castle, Kent

Wargames Exhibition, Chatham

IV. Painting & Building

1000 Foot General: Building Hills, Parts 1-4

All Bones About It: #162, Mason Thornwarden

#166 Elquin, High Elf Adventurer

#167 Drago Voss

Burrowing Horror

Sharkman

Anatoli's Game Room: Adding Miniatures to Frostgrave

Brigade Models: John Treadaway paints the Stewart Regiment

Daluappror: Regimental Gun for Scanian War

Dartfrog's Adventures: Ghulam Heavy Cavalry, 28mm

Officers, Union Cavalry & Zouaves 10mm

Deep Dark Dungeons: Forays into Frostgrave

Evil Bob: US Marines in MARPAT

Warhammer Chaos

Fawcett Avenue Conscripts: German Infantry--Late WWII

Sons of Horus Contemptor Dreadnought

Sons of Horus Deimos Pattern Rhinos

I Mostly Paint at Night: Undead

Wood Elves

Javier at War: Hello Kitty Sigilist

Jay's Wargaming Madness: Painting Tutorial--1:300 Renaissance Galley

JJ's Wargames: Tutorial on Painting French Line Infantry, Part Three

Joy and Forgetfulness: Starts a Marsh Construction Project

Kropotkin's Page: Home Cast Spaceships

Lard Island News: British Army, Civilians & Insurgents

League of Augsberg: Ainsty Merchantman

Making Bogs

Making a Floating Mortar Battery

Legatus' Wargames Armies: Pulp Characters & Troops

Light Bobs and Paint Blobs: Sir William Waller's Regt. of Horse

Lonely Gamers: Northwest Frontier Hills

Renegade Indians

Seventh Cavalry

Mars Miniatures: Chaos Dwarf Crossbows

Ral Partha Dwarves

Matt's Gaming Page: A Fist Full of KungFu

Africans

Arthurian Infantry

Crusaders

Batman Villains

Frostgrave Extras

Frostgrave Wizards & Apprentices

Hassle free Survivors

Lord of the Rings

Miniature Mayhem: WWII Finns, Summer Campaign, Chain of Command

My Ever Growing Armies: Austrian Hungarian Infantry & Light Dragoons

Natholeon's Empire: Great Northern War Russians

Great Northern War Swedes

Painting the Lead Pile: More Reaper for Frostgrave

Palouse Wargaming Journal: Americans for Spanish American War

French Infantry 1859

French Allies

Russians for Crimean War

Root around the Warchest: Barbary Pirates

Sarcophagi: Board for Bushido

Squadpainter: PSC T-34

Tales from GHQ: Rohan's Freikorp 1794

Up the River: Khurasan SpecOps

War Hammster: Paintes a Cherubim Class Space Ship

Wargames & WIP's:  6th Rheinbund Regiment

Welcome to the Age of Feuilleton: Building FrostGrave/SandTomb buildings

With Pyjamas Through a Whiff of Grapeshot: Napoleonic Vignettes

V. Reviews & Variants

Anatoli's Game Room: Frostgrave

Brooklyn Wargamers: Review--28mm Wehrmacht by Black Tree Design

Review--Battle of Bushy Run

JJ's Wargames: Painting War

Lonely Gamers: Review of 4Ground Church

Mac's Little Friends: Frostgrave reimagined to Thawgrave

Mann's Model Moments: Review: System Wars

The Raft: Review: Battlefields in Miniature