Overview: Six of us played a scenario taken from the May 1981 issue of “Wargamer’s Digest.” The scenario was large enough that we used the orders of battle verbatim from the magazine….
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Flames of War Rear Guard
It was time for another World War II Wednesday and we decided it would be a good time to set up a standard FOW scenario. In this game, I opted for the…
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…
Flames of War – 21st Panzer Division Force Book Review
Being an avid FOW player and being a fan of the 21st Panzer in WWII gaming, I could not wait until the release of the new Battlefront force booklet on the 21st…
Another Wings of War Night
Another month, another Wings of War night. With the holidays and everything, we decided to keep it simple and pulled out our WWI planes for some fun We two games in the…
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…
Game 5 – Market Garden Campaign, September 1944
Today’s post is another one of our ongoing Market Garden campaign battles. According to the brief, the Allies had two parachute rifle battalions of the 82nd Airborne Division defending the open polder…
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…
Battle of Berg en Dahl, September 1944
Overview: With this battle taking place shortly after the airborne landings, the assumption was made that both sides would be on the move to start, and both sides would feed reinforcements into…