I have a number of Churchill Funnies in my FOW collection. I also have a number of British tanks in my 20mm WWII skirmish collection. I have always liked the looks of…
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FOW British Para Company
With the recent release of the Red Devils by Battlefront, I decided to go through my British elite troop collection and get it up to date with version four. I had been…
Red Devils FOW Supplement Review.
It has been a long time coming, but Battlefront has finally released the mid war supplement for British Airborne and Commandos. The have also supplement the release with a minor figure release…
QRG 15mm Belgian Vehicles
I somewhat recently finished the troops for a Belgian Infantry company for Flames of War. However, I still needed to assemble and paint the vehicles for the formation. Battlefront actually never produced…
Osipovitchi, October 1941
Overview: Six of us played a scenario taken from the May 1981 issue of “Wargamer’s Digest.” The scenario was large enough that we used the orders of battle verbatim from the magazine….
Flames of War Rear Guard
It was time for another World War II Wednesday and we decided it would be a good time to set up a standard FOW scenario. In this game, I opted for the…
Rolling up the Juba Line, February 1941
The East African campaign (also known as the Abyssinian campaign) was fought in East Africa during the Second World War by Allied forces, mainly from the British Empire, against Axis forces, Italy and their colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. Forces of…
British Invasion of Abyssinia in 1935?
Background The Abyssinia Crisis was an international crisis in 1935 originating in what was called the Walwal incident in the then-ongoing conflict between the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Ethiopia (then commonly known as “Abyssinia”). The League of Nations ruled against Italy…
Game 8, Market Garden Campaign, the Breakout.
Yesterday’s big game was a fitting end to a great campaign. The British smashed through the German defenses and broke out of Arnhem. Here is the battle report. According to the brief,…
Game 6 – Market Garden Campaign, September 1944
Our Market Garden campaign continued with the Battle for the Road Bridge at Nijmegen. We had five players in this very large game. To fit the table and number of players, we…