An old gaming buddy of mine was in town last week and had some time to play a game. I reached out to some of the old grognards to meet up at…
Tag: Soviet
Micro Armor Play Test – Infantry on Infantry.
This months WWII Tuesday night game came and I opted to try another play test of the battalion level micro armor rules I have been working on. I have fleshed out the…
FOW – Budapest 44 Breakthrough Scenario
If you follow this blog, you know that when we play FOW, it is most often how brew scenarios that are based on various historical fights. The focus is more on the…
Micro Armor Playtest 2 – Soviets vs Germans.
Took a long trip, so have not been able to game for a while, so I was glad to get back and try out some more play testing of my new Micro…
FOW – Battle of Brody, June 1941
To kick off our Barbarossa theme month, some players requested the Battle of Brody (1941), which ran over the course of several days in late June 1941, and which might have been…
FOW – Battle of Schoenfliess, April 1945
We adapted a scenario published in a recent edition of Wargames, Soldiers, and Strategy to play the Battle of Schoenfliess (1945) using Flames of War rules. We also used Google Earth for…
Iron Cross – Breakthrough Scenario Game
A good buddy of mine contacted me a while back to let me know he would be in town for the Labor Day weekend here in the US. He indicated he would…
Gajo Minis 15mm Soviet Cossacks
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…
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…