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…
Tag: British
Flames of War British Airborne Heavy Weapons
Back to some Flames of War miniatures. I thought I had finished my British Airborne company last year, but after some contemplation (insert fiddling with army lists), I decided I really needed…
FOW Commandos Re-Done.
As part of my project to redo my British infantry for V4 FOW, I needed to fix my Commando forces. These would take the most work, as they had a rather substantial…
My FOW Late War Polish Infantry Update.
With last year’s release of British D-Day British lists, I decided to go through my British infantry collection and get it up to date with version four. I had painted them as…
FOW British Para Company
With the recent release of the Red Devils by Battlefront, I decided to go through my British elite troop collection and get it up to date with version four. I had been…
Red Devils FOW Supplement Review.
It has been a long time coming, but Battlefront has finally released the mid war supplement for British Airborne and Commandos. The have also supplement the release with a minor figure release…
Redcoats & Tomahawks, Muskets & Tomahawks Supplement Review
Following up my earlier write up on the new Muskets and Tomahawks version 2 rules, it is time to take a look at the first period supplement for the rules. Namely, Redcoats…
Battle of Dettingen, June 1743
Background The Battle of Dettingen (German: Schlacht bei Dettingen) took place on 27 June 1743 during the War of the Austrian Succession, at Dettingen, now Karlstein am Main in Bavaria. It was fought between a Pragmatic Army, composed of British, Hanoverian…
Rolling up the Juba Line, February 1941
The East African campaign (also known as the Abyssinian campaign) was fought in East Africa during the Second World War by Allied forces, mainly from the British Empire, against Axis forces, Italy and their colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. Forces of…
British Invasion of Abyssinia in 1935? (Part II)
We adapted a scenario taken from the old “Battlefields” magazine which proposed a counterfactual US intervention into Italian Somaliland in November 1935 in response to Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia. We substituted a…