For our third game of the Kokoda Track Campaign, we created our own scenario. Background: After the Japanese captured the airstrip at Kokoda Station on 29 July (see our previous report), the…
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FOW – Kokoda Station, July 1941
We continued our Kokoda Track campaign by playing the second scenario from the Fire and Fury WW2 web site. After the earlier clashes against the Japanese 1/144th Battalion at Gorare and Oivi,…
FOW – Kokoda Track, Action at Gorari
For a change of scenery, we decided to run a some games set in the Pacific. Fortunately, the Fire and Fury WW2 website provides several scenarios for action along the Kokoda Track…
D&B – Battle of Goch-Calcar Road, February 1945.
The next D&B latest game was the battle of Goch-Calcar Road in February of 1945. The battle took place at the beginning of the British Reichwald attacks launched to start of operation…
FOW – Battle of Maury, September 1944.
The final game of our Lorraine theme was a big one for eight players. The scenario that we created depicted the attack by Panzer Brigade 106 against the U.S. 90th Infantry Division…
D&B – Battle of Verrieres Ridge, July 1944.
Having a few generic playtest games under my belt, I thought it was time to start running historical scenarios to see how things flowed compared to the actual historic fights. Since I…
D&B – British Infantry Attack in Normandy.
I had been mostly running games using late war Soviet forces to get the mechanics of the rules locked down. I decided now that I was generally happy with the flow, I…
FOW – Battle of Longstop Hill (Part II), December 1942.
The final game of our Tunisia theme (which should have been titled, “The Race to Tunis” since all of our battles were from the opening stages of the campaign) was another battle…
FOW – Battle pf Longstop Hill (Part I), December 1942.
It is necessary to provide the dates when discussing the fighting at Longstop Hill, because the hill was contested in a series of actions from 22-25 December 1942, and in the spring…
FOW – Battle of Bordj Toum, December 1942.
“Bordj Toum Station, Tunisia, December 10, 1942: As the Allies paused to gather their breath and resources for their attack on Tunis, the Germans struck first. The Fifth Panzer Army, in an…