Overview: With this battle taking place shortly after the airborne landings, the assumption was made that both sides would be on the move to start, and both sides would feed reinforcements into…
Month: November 2019
Battle of Mook, September 1944
The brief from the campaign manager called for the lead elements of the 107th Panzer Brigade to attack Mook from the SE. Three artillery batteries were in support, and additional support could…
Fall-in 2019 Review
Fall has come and with it HMGS late year convention Fall-in. This year the convention moved locations from the venerable Lancaster Host to the Valley Forge Casino in King of Prussia Pennsylvania….
Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts: Giant Eagle
While at my FLGS, I saw some new offering in the Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts: Giant Eagle line. One of which was a new Eagle model. I decided to pick three up…
CGL Championship 2019
It’s that time of year again, time for annual Chantilly Gaming League Championship! The Chantilly Gaming Legion held their annual event at Huzzah Hobbies on October 12th. This event is a Ninth…
The Wargames Company – Terrain
While at Historicon earlier in the year, I stopped by the Wargames Company (Authors of Et Sans Resultant Napoleonic Rules) to look over their new offerings. They have recently started selling 10mm…
Battle of Loigny-Poupry, December 1870
Background The Battle of Loigny–Lumeau-Poupry was a battle of the Franco–Prussian War. It took place on 2 December 1870 during the Loire Campaign on a frontline between Loigny, Lumeau and Poupry. After the Battle of Villepion, an army detachment (Armee-Abteilung)…
Flames of War – Ro Ho to Ro Ni
Background The Ho-Ni II was an improvement of the previous Ho-Ni I, which was armed with a 75 mm (2.95 in) gun. It was designed to carry out close infantry support using…
Flames of War Battle of Best Playtest.
BLUF: At 1200 hours on 17 September, the Germans made a battalion-sized hasty attack against the US defenses guarding the western approaches to the 101st Airborne’s drop zone near Best. This attack…
What if, the Germans sortied out of Brest…
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, and was a major part of the Naval history of World War II. At…