We finished our Greece 1941 theme with a bang, by playing the Battle of the Corinth Canal using Flames of War V.4 rules. This battle was an airborne attack by German Fallschirmjagers…
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FOW – Battle of Proasteion, April 1941
We continued our Greece 1941 theme by playing part of the Battle of Proasteion. This battle was a delaying action by the British 1st Armoured Brigade vs. the German 8.Panzer Division. Background: The…
FOW – Battle of Vevi Pass, April 1941.
We continued our Greece 1940-41 theme by playing the Battle of Vevi Pass, using Flames of War V.4 rules. In the portion of the battle that we played, elements of the…
Battlefield3D 15mm Semovente 90/53
I was so happy with my completed Fiat armored cards, I decided to paint the other Italian models that I bought. Namely, four Semovente 90/53 kits. I had given up trying to…
FOW – Battle of Pindus, October 1940
Background After the Italian invasion of Albania in 1939, the Greek General Staff became alerted to a potential Italian attack from Albanian territory, which eventually started on 28 October 1940. The Italian command deployed…
Battlefield3D 15mm Fiat 611 Armored Cars
Some months ago, I posted some pictures of my Neubaufahrzeug models that I finished painting. Well, I was impressed with the quality of the vehicles and went back onto eBay to the…
FOW – San Fratello Line, August 1943.
The grand finale of our WW2 Sicily theme was this Flames of War scenario from the “wargamerabbit” web page:https://wargamerabbit.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/breaking-the-san-fratello-line.pdf The scenario provides the historical background, orders of battle, terrain, and objectives. In…
ESR – Battle of Gorodechno, August 1812.
We played our second game of Et Sans Resultant (ESR) using the new rules. We played the “Gorodechno” scenario from the ESR book “Master of the World — 1812 in Russia” which…
FOW – Battle of Ponte Drillo, August 1943
We continued our WW2 Sicily theme by playing the Battle of Ponte Dirillo. Historically, elements of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division held off elements of the Herman Goring Panzer Division, and thereby…
Et Sans Resultant v3 – First Game, Battle of Swolna.
We played our first game using the newest version of the Et Sans Resultat (ESR) rules. For our first game, we chose the “Swolna” scenario from the ESR Campaign Guide, Master of the World, which…