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He's a member of the Orkney Wargames Club, which meets in Kirkwall on Thursday evenings.
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WWII Coastal Forces, Narrow Seas, 1/600 scale True to his word, Bruce agreed to fit in another game, on a rainy Saturday afternoon, while his wife visited friends. As we didn’t have much time, and he wanted to try another naval game, I settled on a Coastal Forces scrap – a British attack on a
WWII Coastal Forces, Narrow Seas!, 1:600 scale Having played a few games of the new Coastal Forces rules Torpedoes and Tides, Chris asked me what rules I’d used in the past. Thomas Brandsetter’s new rules rekindled interest in the period, but Chris found them a little bit abstract. So, I staged a game for him
WW2 Coastal Forces, Torpedoes & Tides, 1/1250-scale The recurrent interest in WW2 Coastal Forces games continues at the club, and this week we were back in the chops of the Channel, with a game organised by Nick. While I have 1:600 models, Nick favours 1:1250 ones, so we decided to take turns to run games
WWII Coastal Forces, Torpedoes and Tides, 1/600 scale A new set of Coastal Forces rules have just come out, and Nick was given the task of reviewing them. He’d been given a Beta Playtest copy, but by the time we got round to staging the game the rules had already come out. So, one Thursday
WWII Coastal Forces, Narrow Seas, 1/600 scale We were all at sea this week, a mile or so off the Suffolk coast. Yes, back by popular demand, we staged a small Coastal Forces game this week. The idea was, a group of four E-Boats were lurking off Orford Ness – not far from the Sutton
WWII Coastal Forces, Narrow Seas, 1/600 We were all at sea for the first game of the year, somewhere in the English Channel midway between Newhaven and Boulogne. There wasn’t much point to this game – just a nocturnal clash between two groups of baby warships. This time we left the freighters and big escorts
WWII Coastal Forces, Narrow Seas, 1/600 scale This week we went back to playtesting Narrow Seas, David Manley’s forthcoming Coastal Forces rules. This time we wanted to try out three new things – using ships, firing big guns and launching torpedoes. So, that’s exactly what we did. The scenario was an MTB attack on a
WWII Coastal Forces, Narrow Seas, 1/600 scale A few weeks ago David Manley sent me a playtest version of his new fast-play rules for WW2 Coastal Forces. I promised to give them a go, and so that’s exactly what we did. I’ve used a few different sets over the years, and they usually fall down
WWII Coastal Forces, Attack with Torpedoes! 1/600 scale If you look on the period link, you’ll see we haven’t played a Coastal Forces game for quite a few years. There’s no real reason for it – this just seemed to be a naval period that slipped between the cracks. So, when Bart said he wanted
WWII Coastal Forces, Attack with Torpedoes, 1/600 scale Orkney-based wargamer Chris Werb expressed an interest in a Second World War Coastal Forces game, so out came the sea mat and the little boats. I can’t even call them ships. Anyway, the plan was to play two games – a straightforward night-time clash between small German
