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The Second World War, Chain of Command, 28mm We suddenly realised that Chris had never played a Chain of Command game. this was strange, as he’d talked about raising a French platoon c.1940, but hadn’t even tried out the rules. So, we decided to remedy that. In this game, Chris played the British, Nick ran
The Second World War, Rapid Fire Reloaded, 10mm Chris and I were left to our own devices this week, as everyone else was away. So, in my bit to get him hooked on Rapid Fire, I said on an East Front game, and gave him lots of tanks to play with. In this game, set
The Second World War, Bag the Hun!, 1:300 scale This week, Nick brought along his Battle of Britain kit, including his lovely hex-covered map of the coast of southern England. The rules include an option for attacking ships, so Nick decided to try this out. This game was set in July 1940, and centres around
Modern Wars, Rapid Fire Reloaded! Able Archer , 10mm I rarely get my Arab-Israeli kit out, and since the conflict in Gaza flared up, I felt it inappropriate to game anything involving a middle-eastern war. Still, Chris wanted to give the period a go, and so we ran this, more as an exercise in rules-
The Second World War, Rapid Fire Reloaded, 10mm Even though there were just two if us this week, Chris and I decided to go on a trip to Sicily. This scenario was dreamed up by Australian gamer Mark Piper, and posted on the Rapid Fire Reloaded FB group. So, as I had all the kit,
Bismarck’s Wars, Brigade Fire & Fury, 10mm With just Nick and I available for a game, I let him choose what we played. He opted for Bismarck’s Wars using Brigade Fire & Fury, but left it up to me to come up with the game. I opted for the Franco-Austrian War of 1859, a colourful
The Second World War, Rapid Fire Reloaded, 10mm We were off to the Eastern Front this week, for a small game with fairly limited goals. The Germans were planning a pre-emptive strike against the Soviets massing east of the Mius River, near the Russian-Ukranian border. The plan was to establish a bridgehead over the river
Bismarck’s Wars, Brigade Fire & Fury, 10mm Having just written an Osprey Campaign on the Battle of Königgrätz 1866, I thought I’d let off steam by refighting part of the battle. The Swiepwald – the large wood at the bend in the dog-legged Austrian line, was a big sponge, sucking in over a quarter of
Second World War, Chain of Command, 28mm Wow! So good to be back at the keyboard, without actually having to write something for work! Anyway, this was the first of a new Chain of Command (CoC) ‘pint-sized campaign’, played a few weeks ago now between Sean and I. It was set in Normandy, around the
The Second World War, Rapid Fire Reloaded, 12mm After a hiatus of a week, as I had an AGM to go to, we resumed our ‘Battling through Grangemello’ game this week, which was set in Sicily in July 1943. We’d stopped it at the start of Move 8 – a convenient point, as that’s when
