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…
Tag: WWII
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…
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…
FOW – Battle of Persano, September 1943
We continued our Salerno 1943 theme by playing another scenario by Wargamerabbit. This scenario focused on the fighting around Persano on 11 September 1943. This battle pitted the US 179th RCT of…
FOW: Battle of Salerno – September, 1943
We started a new mini-theme for Flames of War, focused on the battles around Salerno in 1943. Our first game was the American amphibious landing at Paestum — a beach to the…
VaS – Breakout of the Admiral Scheer.
We just had WWII Tuesday last week and decided to play another naval game using Victory at Sea. Our original plan was to do a game around Savo Island, but due to…