About Balkan Military History
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Balkan Military History is devoted to the study of the military history of the Balkans.
It is aimed primarily at wargamers and others with an interest in the region and its fascinating history. BMH has been online since 1997 and this is our 23rd year of continuous operation. We hope you enjoy our site and any comments, views or contributions would be very welcome to: The Editor - Dave Watson LLB, FRSA You can follow Dave on Twitter @Balkan_Dave. You can also view the Editors blog Balkan Wargamer for regular news and items of interest.This blog covers Dave's wide ranging military history and wargaming interests. Posts include, book reviews, new wargame rules, wargame projects, travel and visits to historical sites. He wargames in most periods and scales, with a collection of over 20,000 models. Dave is the Secretary of Glasgow and District Wargames Society - one of the UK's longest running wargaming clubs. Dave is a graduate of the University of Strathclyde, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is also the Secretary of the Keir Hardie Society. He retired from his post as Head of Policy and Public Affairs at UNISON Scotland in 2018 and now works part-time as a policy consultant and Director of the Jimmy Reid Foundation, a Scottish think tank. He lives with his wife Liz and Rasputin (the wargaming cat) in South Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland. Historical magazine publications include:
His military history books include 'Chasing the Soft Underbelly: Turkey and the Second World War' (Helion 2023), 'The Frontier Sea, The Napoleonic Wars in the Adriatic' (BMH 2023) and 'Ripped Apart: Volume 1, The Cyprus Conflict 1963-64 (Helion 2023). He is a contributing author to the book 'What Would Keir Hardie Say?' - Luath Press 2015 and several other current affairs books and publications. If you are planning a visit to the Balkans you should find our travel section helpful. We have been to most of the historical sites worth seeing. There are also feature articles and an overview of warfare in the region, together with reviews and a bibliography. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wargaming A feature of this site is the link between the history of the Balkans and wargaming it with model soldiers. Hobby wargamers use model soldiers to simulate battles, real or fictional. The game developed out of chess and the military war games used by the Prussian general staff in the 19th Century. The modern hobby started in the 1950’s and despite computer and board games, it is still a thriving hobby today with monthly magazines and clubs across the world. It is most popular in the English-speaking world, with a focus on the UK and USA. Unlike chess, there are hundreds of different rule sets each covering a specific historical period, although around 50 or so that are played in significant numbers. They usually start with a points system for each army to create a balanced game, together with rules for setting out the battlefield terrain. Once the armies are on the table, the rules usually set out how fast each unit can move, followed by rules for shooting and then hand to hand combat. Records are kept for casualties or figures are removed from the table and rules determine the morale of each unit and the army as a whole. Dice are used to determine the chance element. The figures are made of metal or sometimes plastic and are hand painted. In a historical game this involves researching the uniforms, organisation and tactics of each army. The models come in various sizes from 2mm to 54mm high, made by a large number of figure manufacturers across the world. Most wargamers have a number of different armies that they collect on a project basis. |
Croatian Homeland War Museum
The Editor at Tsarevets Castle at Tarnovo in Bulgaria
Turkish cavalry of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877
Albanian light horse of the 15th Century
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