I recently decided that I wanted a third company of Soviet infantry to fill out my WWII 15mm Soviet army. I wanted a unit that would stand out a bit, to represent…
Tag: WWII
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…
FOW – Hungarian Bagration Unit Cards Review.
Next on the new Battlefront releases are the Hungarian Bagration Command cards. If you are into Hungarians, this is a must buy in my opinion. Like most command sets, this one gives…
FOW- Finnish Bagration Command Cards
With the purchase of the new Bagration Finnish unit cards, I also picked up the Finnish Bagration command cards. With the current set up from Battlefront, you can play your forces with…
FOW – British Airborne Artillery Battery
For those of you that have been following this blog, you know that I finished updating my British Paras for V4 last year. However, I somehow misplaced the artillery the guns for…
FOW – Heiligenbeil Pocket, February 1945
We played a day during the Siege of the Heiligenbeil Pocket, 8 February 1945. The Pocket was formed when the Soviets cut off Konigsberg in East Prussia from the rest of Germany….
FOW – Finnish Bagration Unit Card Review
Well, I returned from my one month sabbatical and had a big stack of special order items waiting for me at my FLGS. Included in the stack, was the new German minor…
FOW: Battle of San Martino, September 1944.
We played the Canadian attack on San Martino, 17 September 1944, adapting a scenario written for Battlefront WW2 to our preferred Flames of War rules. The original scenario with historical background is…
FOW Battle Report: Operation Fischfang, February 1944
For historical background you can refer to the scenario, plus this article provides some campaign background:https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/last-ride-anzio-german-counterattacks-february-1944 We used the scenario for Operation Fischfang that was published on the FOW website. Here is…