Next on my pile of planes to work on was a pair of Ki-43s. These are more Axis and Allies planes. The paint job on these was quite nice, so they did…
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FOW – Somewhere in the Pacific
After playing several all-infantry scenarios, we wanted to play a combined arms game in the Pacific Theater. This scenario was designed by a friend of ours as a large skirmish game. We…
FOW – Templeton’s Crossing (Kokoda Track)
We pressed “fast forward” on our Kokoda Track theme and shifted to the latter half of the campaign, when the Australians were on the counteroffensive. We opted to play the Templeton’s Crossing…
FOW – Operations at Deniki, August 1941 (Kokoda Track Campaign)
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…
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…
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…
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…
Flames of War – Ro Ho to Ro Ni
Background The Ho-Ni II was an improvement of the previous Ho-Ni I, which was armed with a 75 mm (2.95 in) gun. It was designed to carry out close infantry support using…
Japanese Marine Company for FOW
In my backlog of “almost finished” Flames of War armies was my Japanese Navy Land Forces (Marines). These had been sitting around getting dust, while they awaited final basing for quite some…