We played a day during the Siege of the Heiligenbeil Pocket, 8 February 1945. The Pocket was formed when the Soviets cut off Konigsberg in East Prussia from the rest of Germany….
Tag: FOW
FOW – Finnish Bagration Unit Card Review
Well, I returned from my one month sabbatical and had a big stack of special order items waiting for me at my FLGS. Included in the stack, was the new German minor…
FOW: Battle of San Martino, September 1944.
We played the Canadian attack on San Martino, 17 September 1944, adapting a scenario written for Battlefront WW2 to our preferred Flames of War rules. The original scenario with historical background is…
FOW Battle Report: Operation Fischfang, February 1944
For historical background you can refer to the scenario, plus this article provides some campaign background:https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/last-ride-anzio-german-counterattacks-february-1944 We used the scenario for Operation Fischfang that was published on the FOW website. Here is…
FOW Battle Report: La Storta — Holding the Road to Rome
Background The “Huzzah” Friday Afternoon Gamers met officially for the first time since the easing of COVID restrictions on 21 May ’21. As the cadre pursued their vaccinations early, they were able…
Flames of War British Airborne Heavy Weapons
Back to some Flames of War miniatures. I thought I had finished my British Airborne company last year, but after some contemplation (insert fiddling with army lists), I decided I really needed…
Flames of War Soviet Early War Painting Experiment.
I have a bit of a problem (anyone that knows me will of coarse think this already)… I painted up a ton of FOW Soviet armor some years ago and have collected…
Gajo Free French for FOW
Part of my Christmas present to myself was to buy some painted troops from Gajo minis online. I have been slowly but surely working on a French force for Flames of War….
FOW Commandos Re-Done.
As part of my project to redo my British infantry for V4 FOW, I needed to fix my Commando forces. These would take the most work, as they had a rather substantial…
My FOW Late War Polish Infantry Update.
With last year’s release of British D-Day British lists, I decided to go through my British infantry collection and get it up to date with version four. I had painted them as…