Background Following the Boer declaration of independence for the Transvaal in 1880 the British suffered a series of disastrous defeats in attempting to regain the territory. On 20 December 1880, Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Robert Anstruther and elements of his…
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Battle Reports on Games
TOW – High Elves vs Nurgle Daemons
It was time to try a re-match of elves vs daemons. My buddy is still trying to find a way to field a dragonless high elf army. The Wachmeister just keeps his…
R&P – Battleline Brawl.
Time for another Tuesday Rebels and Patriots game! I have noticed in all of our games, there was a lack of close order fighting. Even when I had forces that were mostly…
R&P – Ranger Deep Raid.
We had an open Tuesday and I wanted to run something. I did not have much time to put together anything, so I decided it would be a good day for some…
V&F – Battle of Oldendorf, July 1633
Background The Battle of Oldendorf (German: Schlacht bei Hessisch-Oldendorf) on 8 July 1633 was fought as part of the Thirty Years’ War between the Swedish Empire with its Protestant German allies and the Holy Roman Empire near Hessisch-Oldendorf, Lower Saxony, Germany. The result was a decisive…
FOW – On the Road to Eindhoven, September 1944.
The Battle Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation during the Second World War fought in the German-occupied Netherlands from 17 to 25 September 1944. Its objective was to create a 64 mi (103 km) salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the Nederrijn…
R&P – Race to Freedom.
I had just run a Rebels and Patriots scenario and the players all were interested in another game. I had planned on running the same game and just switching sides, but the…
R&P – Battle without Snow Shoes.
It was my turn to run our Tuesday musket period game and I decided to pull out Rebels and Patriots for the group, as we had not done a game of this…
TOW – High Elves vs Nurgle Daemons.
Warhammer Tuesday and time for another game. It was time to switch things up wit the armies again. The Wachmeister came with his Nurgle army ready to go. This time around, we…
BBB – Battle of Mars-la-Tour, August 1870.
Background This battle, one of the most sanguinary of all those that were fought during the Franco-Prussian war, took place on August 16th, 1870. The French, defeated all along the line, had…