A couple of years ago, I discovered airplane miniatures associated with the Axis and Allies air combat system. Two series were released, Angels 20 and Bandits High. The planes are no longer…
Tag: Russian
Lace Wars 15mm Russian Army
I normally try to keep names and faces out of my articles. However, in this case, I think Ray deserves my recognition as a friend and a fellow gamer. He passed away…
BBB – Battle of Brienne, January 1814
For games in the Napoleonic era, our group has been using two sets of rules — Et Sans Resultat (ESR) and Bloody Big Battles (BBB). Several of our most recent games had been run using the…
ESR – Battle of Brienne, January 1814 (Part 2)
We continued playing the Battle of Brienne (France 1814) using the “Et Sans Resultat” rules and scenario. See our earlier report for details on the first part of this game. When we finished the…
ESR – Battle of Brienne, January 1814 (Part 1).
We played the Battle of Brienne (29 January 1814) using the Napoleonic rules, Et Sans Resultat (ESR)Version 3. The game required two sessions to complete; this report is Part 1. Our scenario was drawn…
Gajo Cossacks in 15mm
I have slowly been going though my miniature collection to streamline my storage. I am also trying to fill in holes in each collection and doing minor corrections to paint jobs where…
ESR – Battle of Gorodechno, August 1812.
We played our second game of Et Sans Resultant (ESR) using the new rules. We played the “Gorodechno” scenario from the ESR book “Master of the World — 1812 in Russia” which…
Et Sans Resultant v3 – First Game, Battle of Swolna.
We played our first game using the newest version of the Et Sans Resultat (ESR) rules. For our first game, we chose the “Swolna” scenario from the ESR Campaign Guide, Master of the World, which…
Battle of Vitebsk, 1812.
I ran a game of Bloody Big Battles (BBB) for an experienced boardgamer who is new to wargaming with miniatures. The Battle of Vitebsk (1812) provided a well balanced and relatively simple…
Battle of Gordeczna,
Background By late summer, Napoleon’s Grande Armee stood poised to capture Smolensk, deep in central Russia. But to the south of Napoleon’s advance, the Third Russian Army of West took to the…