I have had a backlog of figures that I have either painted or had painted for quite some time. Finally working to get them finished, slowly but surely! Here is my new…
Tag: British
British Invasion of Abyssinia in 1935?
Background The Abyssinia Crisis was an international crisis in 1935 originating in what was called the Walwal incident in the then-ongoing conflict between the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Ethiopia (then commonly known as “Abyssinia”). The League of Nations ruled against Italy…
Game 8, Market Garden Campaign, the Breakout.
Yesterday’s big game was a fitting end to a great campaign. The British smashed through the German defenses and broke out of Arnhem. Here is the battle report. According to the brief,…
Game 6 – Market Garden Campaign, September 1944
Our Market Garden campaign continued with the Battle for the Road Bridge at Nijmegen. We had five players in this very large game. To fit the table and number of players, we…
Game 7: Market Garden Campaign – The Island
We just finished game seven of our market Garden campaign. Here are the details. Objectives: The brief called for XXX Corps’ spearhead to form up and push north from its bridgehead across…
Muskets and Tomahawks – Multi-player Skirmish.
Background The French and Indian War (1754–1763) pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies. At the start of…
Game 4, Market Garden Campaign – Battle of Osterbeek, September 1944
Background The Battle of Arnhem was a major battle of the Second World War at the vanguard of the Allied Operation Market Garden. It was fought in and around the Dutch towns of Arnhem, Oosterbeek, Wolfheze, Driel, and the…
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…
Battle of the River Plate – ish… September 1939
Background The Battle of the River Plate was the first naval battle in the Second World War and the first one of the Battle of the Atlantic in South American waters. The German panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee had cruised into the South Atlantic a…
Battle of Caen, Operation Charnwood, July 1944
Background The Battle for Caen (June to August 1944) is the name for the fighting between the British Second Army and German Panzergruppe West in the Second World War for control of the city of Caen and vicinity, during the Battle of Normandy. The…