Tuesday night and another GW LotR game. This time around, we did an encounter fight between Urukai Orcs and Rivendell Elves someplace outside Rivendell. The game was set up on a tree…
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Battle Reports on Games
LotR – GW Scenario Battle of Dagorlad
A buddy of mine has been running LotR games at my FLGS since things have opened up a bit from Covid. Wednesday night was always a bit of a challenge for me,…
FOW – Battle of Brody, June 1941
To kick off our Barbarossa theme month, some players requested the Battle of Brody (1941), which ran over the course of several days in late June 1941, and which might have been…
FOW – Battle of Schoenfliess, April 1945
We adapted a scenario published in a recent edition of Wargames, Soldiers, and Strategy to play the Battle of Schoenfliess (1945) using Flames of War rules. We also used Google Earth for…
Twilight of Devine Right Rules Playtest – Battle of Saint Gothard (1664)
The Battle of Saint Gotthard (Turkish: Saint Gotthard Muharebesi; German: Schlacht bei St. Gotthard; Hungarian: Szentgotthárdi csata), of the Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664), took place on 1 August 1664 on the Raab between Mogersdorf and the Cistercian monastery St. Gotthard in German West Hungary (today Hungary). It was fought between Imperial…
Iron Cross – Breakthrough Scenario Game
A good buddy of mine contacted me a while back to let me know he would be in town for the Labor Day weekend here in the US. He indicated he would…
FOW – Action by Kampfgruppe Stachwitz, July 1944.
The second small scenario I tested was an action by Kampfgruppe Stachwitz during the Kursk offensive in 1943. The rules used were Flames of War Version 4, with the unit reference cards…
FOW – Action at Alytus Bridgehead, June 1941.
I wanted to test two small tank scenarios for possible use in an upcoming open gaming weekend. The first scenario was the action at the Alytus Bridgehead in June 1941, in which…
Bloody Big Battles – SYW Playtest, Kolin 1757.
Frederick II of Prussia had won a bloody battle against Austria and was now besieging Prague. Austrian Marshal Daun arrived too late to participate in the Battle of Prague, but picked up 16,000 men who escaped from…
7TV Pulp Play Test
With the opening up of stores and friends getting vaccinated, the time had come for me to dust off the 7TV Pulp rules and finally give them a try. When I first…