I have been running Pulp games using heavily modified In Her Majesty’s Name rules. While the games work fine, they still lack a little bit of pulp feel and often generate into…
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Battle Reports on Games
Muskets and Tomahawks Playtest
Well, I finally took the plunge and set up a small game at my house for the first time since February. I got together with a few friends who I know have…
Battle of Vitebsk, 1812.
I ran a game of Bloody Big Battles (BBB) for an experienced boardgamer who is new to wargaming with miniatures. The Battle of Vitebsk (1812) provided a well balanced and relatively simple…
Osipovitchi, October 1941
Overview: Six of us played a scenario taken from the May 1981 issue of “Wargamer’s Digest.” The scenario was large enough that we used the orders of battle verbatim from the magazine….
Flames of War Rear Guard
It was time for another World War II Wednesday and we decided it would be a good time to set up a standard FOW scenario. In this game, I opted for the…
Lord of the Rings Tourney.
A buddy of mine ran a LotR tournament last week at our local hobby shop Huzzah Hobbies. He did a great job in setting up multiple tables with unique terrain. Well worth…
Battle of Auerstadt, October 1806
Background The battles of Auerstädt were fought on 14 October 1806 on the plateau west of the river Saale in today’s Germany, between the forces of Napoleon I of France and Frederick William III of Prussia. The decisive…
Battle of Dettingen, June 1743
Background The Battle of Dettingen (German: Schlacht bei Dettingen) took place on 27 June 1743 during the War of the Austrian Succession, at Dettingen, now Karlstein am Main in Bavaria. It was fought between a Pragmatic Army, composed of British, Hanoverian…
Rolling up the Juba Line, February 1941
The East African campaign (also known as the Abyssinian campaign) was fought in East Africa during the Second World War by Allied forces, mainly from the British Empire, against Axis forces, Italy and their colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. Forces of…
British Invasion of Abyssinia in 1935? (Part II)
We adapted a scenario taken from the old “Battlefields” magazine which proposed a counterfactual US intervention into Italian Somaliland in November 1935 in response to Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia. We substituted a…