The final pages of Col. Henricks diary were found in the Zanzibar Museum of Antiquities. The old curator did not give it up easily, but nothing a few pounds sterling could not…
Category: Battle Report
Battle Reports on Games
Battle of Liegnitz, August 1760
Background In August 1760, Frederick’s army opposed the Austro-Russian invasion of Silesia. On August 14, a Russian army under the command of count Piotr Semionovitch Saltykov crossed the Oder and encamped at Grossbresa (unidentified location)…
Battle of Salamanca, July 1812
Background In Battle of Salamanca (in French and Spanish known as “Battle of Arapiles”) an Anglo-Portuguese army under the Duke of Wellington defeated Marshal Auguste Marmont’s French forces among the hills around Arapiles, south of Salamanca, Spain on 22 July 1812 during…
Battle of Kiev, September 1941
Background The First Battle of Kiev was the German name for the operation that resulted in a very large encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II. This encirclement is considered the largest…
Battle of the Frontiers (Białystok), June 1941
Background The Battle of Białystok–Minsk was a German strategic operation conducted by the Army Group Centre during the penetration of the Soviet border region in the opening stage of Operation Barbarossa lasting from 22 June to 3 July…
Battle of Kulm – August 1813
Background The Battle of Kulm was a battle near the town Kulm (Chlumec) and the village Přestanov in northern Bohemia. It was fought on 29–30 August 1813, during the War of the Sixth Coalition. 32,000 French troops under Dominique Vandamme attacked an army of about 50-60,000 Austrians, Russians and Prussians under Alexander…
Battle of Meyngo – 1942
Background The Island, also known as Myengu, is an island in the Bay of Bengal, Burma(Myanmar). It belongs to Rakhine State and is located 5 kilometres (3 miles) to the south of Sittwe, separated from the continental shore…
In Her Magisty’s Name – On the streets of Zanzibar Pulp Game.
Zanzibar, lyrical beauty in the name,” Col. Henricks wrote in his diary, in a typical outburst of romantic enthusiasm that all adventures had for all things foreign, exotic, dangerous. “The first time…
Iron Cross Meeting Engagement – Soviets vs Germans
In order to better learn the Iron Cross WWII skirmish rules our group has landed on for our WWII Wednesdays, we started simple with an infantry on infantry match. This was followed…
In Her Majesty’s Name – Up the Congo.
It is 1924 when Jaque Suito emerges from the depths of the Belgian Congo. He is the sole survivor of an ill-fated mapping expedition in which his company died and from which…