We continued our Tunisia campaign by playing the Battle of Chouigui Pass, fought during the afternoon of 26 November 1942 (which was Thanksgiving Day). This was the first time that American and…
Tag: WWII
D&B – Infantry Attach Micro Armor Play Test, June 1944.
It was WWII Tuesday, so I decided to stick with play testing my micro armor rules. The earlier games have been focussed more on armor clashes, so it was time to focus…
FOW – Battle of Medjez-el-Bab, November 1942 (Part 2)
This game represented the fighting around the Tunisian town of Medjez-el-Bab on 19-20 November 1942, and would continue our game from the first session (see our previous AAR for the background, description…
FOW – Battle of Medjez-el-Bab, November 1942 (Part 1).
Our Operation TORCH campaign reached Tunisia with the battle of Medjez-el-Bab, which was fought on 19-20 November 1942. This game represented the opening phases of the battle; a second game would cover…
FOW – Rocking the Kasbah, November 1942
We continued our Morocco-Tunisia theme by playing the final assault on the Kasbah at Mehdia, Morocco. According to Rick Atkinson’s “An Army at Dawn,” the “Kasbah” was a 16th Century fort that…
Micro Armor Test Play – 1943 Armor Clash
It was time for WWII Tuesday and I decided it would be nice to shift back to ground warfare and try out another micro armor test play. This time, I decided to…
Peter Pig 15mm FT-17 Tanks
If you follow this blog, you know that our group plays a lot of WWII historically based scenarios using Flames of War rules. Every so often we do the esoteric early war…
Flames of War – British Bulge Command Cards
I covered the Unit Cards earlier and that rings us to the second volume of the set, the Command Cards. As usual, this is where the army gets its special feel. This…
Flames of War – British Bulge Unit Cards
With the latest FOW army release, Battlefront has covered all the late war period forces for WWII. This release allows British players to field forces up to the end of the war….
FOW – Battle of Mehdia, November 1942
We started a new FOW theme set in Morocco and Tunisia, in the November-December 1942 timeframe. Our first scenario saw a large Vichy French force attempting to break through American defenses near…