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Bismarck’s Wars, Fire & Fury, 10mm Sean opted for the Franco-Prussian War this week, so I selected this battle, fought on October 1970. It was meant to be the French break-out from Metz, but in the end it became an exercise in farm-grabbing, to secure supplies for the besieged French army. So, it was unusual
Bismarck’s Wars, Fire & Fury, 10mm I don’t really do the same periods back to back on here, and while I haven’t really here, I’ve done it with the same rules and scale. the thing is, Charles Grant wanted an article for the Wargamers’ Annual, and so I needed to stage an Austro-Prussian War game,
The American Civil War, Brigade Fire & Fury, 10mm With Sean away, Nick opted for a 10mm American Civil War game. So, it was off to the backwoods of Mississippi this week, and a refight of the Battle of Corinth, fought in early October 1862. In this one, Nick opted for the attacking Confederates, while
The Second World War, Bag the Hun, 1/300 scale We’ve had a dearth of games lately, for various reasons – largely because it’s summer, and people are off doing summery things. Anyway, Nick and I managed to play a game, and as a treat he brought in his vast 1/300 Battle of Britain collection. I
The Great War, Black Powder (adapted), 28mm These League of Gentlemen Wargamer weekends usually fit a pattern. Initial games are followed by a big game, which reaches its climax on Sunday forenoon. Then we pack up and go home. Always, on the Saturday night, there’s an evening of food, drink and wargames chat – sometimes
The Great War, Black Powder (adapted), 28mm There’s been a dearth of wargaming over the past few weeks, mainly as my main gaming chums are either holidaying or working on archaeological digs. So, it was a real pleasure to hop on the ferry to Aberdeen, and head to Kirriemuir, for the latest League of Gentleman
Bismarck’s Wars, Fire & Fury, 10mm With Sean away digging holes in the rain-sodden countryside (he’s an sore-kneed archaeologist), Nick and I delved into the Franco-Prussian War, and this game based loosely on the Battle of Spichern, one of those frontier battles in August 1870. Nick’s two divisions of French were charged with holding the
The Second World War, Chain of Command, 28mm I asked Sean what he fancied playing this week, and he opted for a World War 2 game using Chain of Command. So, that’s what we did. He’d be running late, so we started without him, with Nick opting to be the Americans, in Sean’s stead. This
The Second World War, Iron Cross, 10mm We fancied a ‘treadfest’ this week, and that’s exactly what we got! Sean and I (with some help from Aly) staged a small 10mm game set on the Eastern Front, shortly after Kursk. Sean took the Soviets, which left me with Das Reich. The game was played out
The American Civil War, Brigade Fire & Fury, 28mm For a while now, I’ve been building up units for the American Civil War. At first I was just doing Union troops, but when ‘Sean 2’ moved away with his Confederates I had to raise them too. This was their first outing. Sean (formerly ‘Sean 1’)
