Blog not dead, just slightly forgotten

I plan on ressurcting this blog in the coming year. focus will be on historical games as my son has lost interest for a bit in his toy soldiers.
Ideas include a castle siege game, a Crusader action, some Hundred Years War, or British conflitcts

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