An old gaming buddy of mine was in town last week and had some time to play a game. I reached out to some of the old grognards to meet up at…
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7TV Pulp – Raid on the Elmusai Shrine.
It was Pulp Tuesday and time for another 7TV Pulp game. I decided to break out by Siam ruins terrain for the set up. I stated with a few shallow hills and…
FoW – Crossing the Calore, September 1943
The final game of our Salerno theme was another scenario from “wargamerabbit” –“Crossing the Calore River.” This scenario pits a reinforced US Rifle Company against a reinforced German Panzer Pioneer company. The…
KK – Battle of Lobositz, October 1757
The Battle of Lobositz or Lovosice also Lowositz on 1 October 1756 was the opening land battle of the Third Silesian War and the wider Seven Years’ War. Frederick the Great’s 28,000 Prussians were prevented by 33,000 Austrians under Maximilian Ulysses Count von Browne from…
VaS – Pacific Clash, Sometime in 1942
It was time for WWII and we opted to play another VaS scenario before we switched to the next genre for a while. We did not have the ships for any of…
FOW – Second Battle of the Tobacco Factory, September 1943
We continued our Salerno theme by playing the Second Battle of the Tobacco Factory. This scenario represents the German counterattack to regain control of the factory. In our first battle (see previous…
VaS – Battle of Cape Esperance, October 1942
On the night of 11 October, the Japanese dispatched an extensive supply and reinforcement convoy to their ground forces engaged on Guadalcanal. At the same time, but in a separate operation, three Japanese heavy…
KK – Battle of Chotusitz, May 1742
This their second and last major battle of the 1st Silesian War gave both the Austrians, under Prince Charles, and the Prussians, under Frederick II, a chance to redeem mistakes from the…
FOW – Battle at the Person Tobacco Factory, September 1943
The next game in our Salerno theme was the First Battle of the Tobacco Factory. The below excerpt from the US Army Center of Military History provides the historical background and a…
7TV Pulp – Race for the Map to the Lost Kingdom of Emerku.
Opening your correspondence, you find a letter from your old friend Lord Marly. He is asking for your help in interpreting a map that he has found while on a hunt in…