I have been looking for another set of rules to run 20mm WWII games for my group on Tuesday nights. I have found a number of rules that I really like, but…
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Battle Reports on Games
IHMN2 – Recover the K-Bomb Plans.
The US Government is in a bit of a pickle. Poncho Villa has stolen the plans to the experimental K-Bomb device, an explosive of unknown power. The plans are believed to be…
Rank and File – Battle of Harlem Heights, September 1776.
Background The Battle of Harlem Heights was fought during the New York and New Jersey campaign of the American Revolutionary War. The action took place on September 16, 1776, in what is now the Morningside Heights area and east…
BBB, Lace Wars Variant – Battle of Mollwitz, April 1741.
Background The Battle of Mollwitz was fought by Prussia and Austria on 10 April 1741, during the First Silesian War (in the early stages of the War of the Austrian Succession). It was the first battle of the new Prussian King Frederick…
FOW – Gallabat-Metemma Campaign, Part 4.
This is the report of the fourth game of our Gallabat-Metemma campaign. Game 1 saw the capture of Fort Gallabat by British and Indian forces. Games 2 and 3 featured counterattacks by…
FOW Gallabat-Metemma Campaign Part 2.
This post reports the second game of our Gallabat-Metemma mini-campaign. Part 1 reported our first game and also provided some historical background and notes about how we organized our campaign. Historically, while…
FOW: Gallabat-Metemma Campaign Part
Issues 433 and 434 of Wargames Illustrated magazine ran two articles titled, “The Battle of Gallabat” and “The Attack on Fort Gallabat.” The articles provide background, orders of battle, a map of the operational…
Battles for Empire II, Battle of Nyezane, January 1879
Having been introduced to Battles for Empire II (BFE2) at the Williamsburg Muster convention, we were keen to try these rules with our regular gaming group. We decided that our first game would be…
Ad Hoc Fantasy Skirmish Game.
Tuesday night came along and I headed to my FLGS for our normal game night. One of my old gaming buddies was in town and planned to join. I had a busy…
7TV Pulp – Something Goes Bump in the Night.
“I once met a man from an old land, who told me of the creatures of the night please understand,he was a hunter by trade, before me a bloody wooden stake he…