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…
Tag: WWII
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…
SHQ 20mm Luchs and Grille
One of the things sitting on my painting table was a couple of 20mm scale German AFVs from SHQ. I picked these up a long time ago. They had a basic paint…
FoW – Escape from Berlin, May 1945
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…
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…
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…