Backround The Third Battle of Kharkov was a series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II, undertaken by the German Army Group South against the Red Army, around the…
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Battle for the Sapun Ridge, (June 1942)
Background: The Siege of Sevastopol also known as the Defense of Sevastopol (Russian: Оборона Севастополя, transliteration: Oborona Sevastopolya) or simply the Battle of Sevastopol (German: Schlacht um Sewastopol) was a military battle…
Battle of Pruzana, (June 1941)
On Aug 27th, we finished our 1941 theme by playing a Barbarossa scenario out of the April 1982 issue of Wargamer’s Digest (vol 9, no.6) “Battle Stations – German Panzer Attack –…
Battle of Uman, (Aug 1941)
Background The Battle of Uman (15 July – 8 August 1941) was the German and allied encirclement of the 6th and 12th Soviet Armies—under the command of Lieutenant General I. N. Muzyrchenko…
Battles of Khalkhin Gol (1939)
Background “The Battles of Khalkhyn Gol were the decisive engagements of the undeclared border conflicts fought among the Soviet Union, Mongolia and the Empire of Japan in 1939. The conflict was named…
Battle Along the Mannerheim Line (1939)
As we were suffering the hottest Heat Wave of the year in Washington DC…. We decided, of course, to play a scenario pitting Finns vs Soviets in the snows of the Winter…
Operation Conrad 1945
On June 24th, as part of our effort to fight battles from each year of World War II, we played a scenario based on the last German offensive of the war to…
Battle of Bautzen, the Last German Victory.
On June 3rd, as part of our effort to fight battles from each year of World War II, we shifted to 1945 and played a scenario based on the Soviet-Polish offensive south…
Encirclement at Cherkassy
In this weeks Flames of War Scenario, we decided to do a double envelopment game of the Battle of Cherkassy. The game was inspired by the Soviet effort to surround the German…