On the night of 11 October, the Japanese dispatched an extensive supply and reinforcement convoy to their ground forces engaged on Guadalcanal. At the same time, but in a separate operation, three Japanese heavy…
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FOW – Battle at the Person Tobacco Factory, September 1943
The next game in our Salerno theme was the First Battle of the Tobacco Factory. The below excerpt from the US Army Center of Military History provides the historical background and a…
FOW – Battle of Persano, September 1943
We continued our Salerno 1943 theme by playing another scenario by Wargamerabbit. This scenario focused on the fighting around Persano on 11 September 1943. This battle pitted the US 179th RCT of…
FOW: Battle of Salerno – September, 1943
We started a new mini-theme for Flames of War, focused on the battles around Salerno in 1943. Our first game was the American amphibious landing at Paestum — a beach to the…
FOW – San Fratello Line, August 1943.
The grand finale of our WW2 Sicily theme was this Flames of War scenario from the “wargamerabbit” web page:https://wargamerabbit.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/breaking-the-san-fratello-line.pdf The scenario provides the historical background, orders of battle, terrain, and objectives. In…
FOW – Battle of Ponte Drillo, August 1943
We continued our WW2 Sicily theme by playing the Battle of Ponte Dirillo. Historically, elements of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division held off elements of the Herman Goring Panzer Division, and thereby…
FOW – Bulge American Command Card Review.
If you saw my earlier review of the US Bulge Unit Cards, you know I think it is one of the best sets Battlefront has released for V4. Well, I can say…
FOW – Bulge American Unit Card Review.
The newest release from Battlefront is the new Bulge American army book and cards. I am sure this is probably the one set that every American FOW set those players have been…
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…
Gajo Free French for FOW
Part of my Christmas present to myself was to buy some painted troops from Gajo minis online. I have been slowly but surely working on a French force for Flames of War….