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I am happily afflicted with that mysterious hobby of wargaming. This site is a reflection of that affliction. Have a look around and enjoy ... and perhaps even be a little inspired. There sure are worse ways to spend your leisure time. And I’m hardly biased at all!

The main areas available for your investigational pleasure are immediately available courtesy of a mere "click" at the top of the screen. They are ... drum roll please ...

                               Home: here be there

                              Army Inspections: some thoughts, information and images of my assorted miniature armies and figures

                              Dawn Parades: occasional reviews

                              Military Obstacles: an area to flaunt my terrain pieces

                              Post-mortems: glorious and otherwise game memoires

                              Reconnaissance: various items of potential interest including wargames shows and places of interest

                              The son & heirs: random reportage on The son & heirs modelling adventures

                              Gallows Humour: a little wargaming or military humour that has tickled the fancy of von Peter himself

                              Links: favoured sites

And then there is one very important link not (currently?!) available at the top of each screen. Orders of the Day is my longish running Blog. Being a Blog it will normally be updated more often as a news and chatty locale. Conversely it is intended that this site will be used as an orderly quasi archive. Updates to this site that are considered significant - whatever that means! - will be notified on the Orders of the Day Blog. We shall see how this all works out in practice.

This website of von Peter himself is in continual expansion ... or at least it is meant to be!

Please visit the blog of von Peter himself - Orders of the Day - for day to day shenanigans

28 June 2025

The Links page is upgraded with the addition of The Tactical Painter in the Wargamer's Sites section.

21 September 2025

Another addition to the Links page The Miscellaneous section now contains a link to Jonas De Neef's Napoleon Chronicles. If you want to read English translations of Napoleonic memoirs and correspondence compilations from primary source material then this is where you should direct your eyes to ... unless you re going to get your device to read the memoirs in which case you should direct your ears to!!

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14 February 2026

Some tidy ups and the Links page receives another resident. This time it's Warbases newly installed in the Miscellaneous section.

28 October 2025

Yet another Podcasts has been inducted into the Podcasts section of the Links page. The Napoleonic Wars Podcast says it all in the name.

?? October 2025

It's great to find an 18th century focussed podcast. Prime & Load podcast added to the Podcasts section of the Links page.

27 December 2025

Still some life here! College of Kings has been added to the Wargamer's sites section of the Links page. von Peter himself will be keeping a close eye on this site as Martyn builds his 1813 Autumn Campaign project.