We just had WWII Tuesday last week and decided to play another naval game using Victory at Sea. Our original plan was to do a game around Savo Island, but due to…
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ToDR – Battle of Cropredy Bridge, May 1644
n the early part of 1644, the Royalists suffered several setbacks. Two field armies were defeated at Nantwich and Cheriton, and a Scottish Covenanter army invaded the north of England, driving the Royalists to York, where they were besieged. King…
FOW – Battle or Corinth Canal, April 1941.
We finished our Greece 1941 theme with a bang, by playing the Battle of the Corinth Canal using Flames of War V.4 rules. This battle was an airborne attack by German Fallschirmjagers…
Pulp – The Tomb of Tutmankan
Out of the deep desert of Egypt came a single rag tag local. He claimed to be the only survivor of an archeologist team that had discovered the lost tomb of Tutmankan….
FOW – Battle of Proasteion, April 1941
We continued our Greece 1941 theme by playing part of the Battle of Proasteion. This battle was a delaying action by the British 1st Armoured Brigade vs. the German 8.Panzer Division. Background: The…
Star Wars Legion – Republic vs Separatists.
We played Star Wars Legion for the first time a few weeks ago. Everyone enjoyed it, so we got together for another go. Hopefully, we would correct the mistakes from the last…
FOW – Battle of Vevi Pass, April 1941.
We continued our Greece 1940-41 theme by playing the Battle of Vevi Pass, using Flames of War V.4 rules. In the portion of the battle that we played, elements of the…
FOW – Battle of Pindus, October 1940
Background After the Italian invasion of Albania in 1939, the Greek General Staff became alerted to a potential Italian attack from Albanian territory, which eventually started on 28 October 1940. The Italian command deployed…
FOW – San Fratello Line, August 1943.
The grand finale of our WW2 Sicily theme was this Flames of War scenario from the “wargamerabbit” web page:https://wargamerabbit.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/breaking-the-san-fratello-line.pdf The scenario provides the historical background, orders of battle, terrain, and objectives. In…
ESR – Battle of Gorodechno, August 1812.
We played our second game of Et Sans Resultant (ESR) using the new rules. We played the “Gorodechno” scenario from the ESR book “Master of the World — 1812 in Russia” which…