Background After the Italian invasion of Albania in 1939, the Greek General Staff became alerted to a potential Italian attack from Albanian territory, which eventually started on 28 October 1940. The Italian command deployed…
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Battle Reports on Games
FOW – San Fratello Line, August 1943.
The grand finale of our WW2 Sicily theme was this Flames of War scenario from the “wargamerabbit” web page:https://wargamerabbit.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/breaking-the-san-fratello-line.pdf The scenario provides the historical background, orders of battle, terrain, and objectives. In…
ESR – Battle of Gorodechno, August 1812.
We played our second game of Et Sans Resultant (ESR) using the new rules. We played the “Gorodechno” scenario from the ESR book “Master of the World — 1812 in Russia” which…
VAS – River Plate Scenario
Time for another VAS scenario using the later version of Victory at Sea from Warlord games. I had run the Battle of the River Plate scenario a number of times using the…
Star Wars Legion – First Game.
A few years ago, I picked up my first Star Wars Legion miniatures. I bought them more for a hobby interest, I did not really have an intent to play the game….
FOW – Battle of Ponte Drillo, August 1943
We continued our WW2 Sicily theme by playing the Battle of Ponte Dirillo. Historically, elements of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division held off elements of the Herman Goring Panzer Division, and thereby…
VAS – Bismarck Chase Scenario
Dusted off my copy of Warlord Victory at Sea for a quick Tuesday night game session. I recently finished updating all my ship cards and QRG, so this would be a chance…
Et Sans Resultant v3 – First Game, Battle of Swolna.
We played our first game using the newest version of the Et Sans Resultat (ESR) rules. For our first game, we chose the “Swolna” scenario from the ESR Campaign Guide, Master of the World, which…
FOW – Battle of Centuripe, August 1943.
We continued our Sicily theme by playing a small scenario based on the Battle for Centuripe, which was a good size for the three players that we had. Some background to the…
FOW – Battle of Troina, August 1943.
We continued our WW2 Sicily theme by playing part of the Battle of Troina (August 1-6, 1943), focusing on the action around the Ponte di Failia (Failia Bridge). The historical background, map,…