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The Battle of Hastenbeck, 1757

The Seven Years War, Black Powder, 28mm A few months ago a few of us got together to stage an enormous Marston Moor game, held in a hotel in a remote corner of Fife, a one hour drive from Edinburgh. Well this time we tackled a Seven Years War refight – the Battle of Hastenbeck,

Ouvrage de Saint-Hubert, 1944

The Second World War, Battlegroup Panzergrenadier, 15mm This little game was set amid the initial American attacks on the West Wall around Metz. The US 5th Infantry Division is probing forward towards the German positions to the north-west of Metz, and this game involves a small mixed-arms column of theirs. The German defenders were from the