I wanted to test two small tank scenarios for possible use in an upcoming open gaming weekend. The first scenario was the action at the Alytus Bridgehead in June 1941, in which…
Tag: East Front
FOW – Heiligenbeil Pocket, February 1945
We played a day during the Siege of the Heiligenbeil Pocket, 8 February 1945. The Pocket was formed when the Soviets cut off Konigsberg in East Prussia from the rest of Germany….
FOW – Finnish Bagration Unit Card Review
Well, I returned from my one month sabbatical and had a big stack of special order items waiting for me at my FLGS. Included in the stack, was the new German minor…
Flames of War Soviet Early War Painting Experiment.
I have a bit of a problem (anyone that knows me will of coarse think this already)… I painted up a ton of FOW Soviet armor some years ago and have collected…
Flames of War Russian Reinforcements.
I was chatting with a buddy of mine about WWII eastern front and what he should get to fill out his army. As I am easily distracted, it got me thinking about…
Battle of Radzymin (July 1944)
Background The Battle of Radzymin was one of a series of engagements between the Red Army’s 1st Byelorussian Front and the German Army’s XXXIXth Panzer Corps that occurred as part of the Lublin-Brest Offensive between 1 and 10 August 1944 at the…
Pegasus Hobbies 1/72 Scale Russian Building Sets
Pegasus Hobbies makes two set of 1/72 scale Russian village buildings. I picked these up a number of years ago and painted them up. There are two different sets and I picked…
1939 Polish Mech Infantry Company Ready to Play.
A long time ago, I was walking through a convention flea market looking for some good deals. I came across a FOW Battlefront Polish Armored Train box. It was marked down fifty…
Osipovitchi, October 1941
Overview: Six of us played a scenario taken from the May 1981 issue of “Wargamer’s Digest.” The scenario was large enough that we used the orders of battle verbatim from the magazine….
Battle of Alytus, June 1941
Background The tank battle near Alytus between German tanks and those of (the) Soviet 5th Tank division was probably the hardest combat ever conducted by 7th Panzer Division in the Second World…