After seeing the very large battleship New Jersey, our next ship to visit was the USS Olympia. The Olympia is a protected cruiser of the pre-dreadnaught era. She is right on the…
Tag: Historical
USS New Jersey, Camden New Jersey.
Last winter, when I realized that HMGS Cold Wars was going to be held in Valley Forge Pennsylvania. I was unable to get a room at the convention site, so I was…
D&B – Battle of Verrieres Ridge, July 1944.
Having a few generic playtest games under my belt, I thought it was time to start running historical scenarios to see how things flowed compared to the actual historic fights. Since I…
FOW – Battle of Singling, December 1944
We continued our “Tank Battles in Lorraine” theme with the battle of Singling. Our scenario was derived from a scenario on the “wargamerabbit” blog, which was sourced to the old “What Would…
HMGS Cold Wars, March 2023
With the new year, we should be back to the full war-game convention schedule again. The first large event on the docket was HMGS Cold Wars. I just got back from the…
Nauticus Museum, Norfolk Virginia.
I was in Williamsburg recently to attend the 2023 Williamsburg Muster Wargame Convention. Whenever I go to this convention, I always tag on a museum trip to one of the local area…
BBB – Battle of La Rothiere, France 1814
The Battle of La Rothiere, fought on 1 February 1814, was the sequel to the Battle of Brienne, which was fought on 29 January (see our previous report). After the inconclusive battle…
FOW – “Child’s Play” Arracourt, September 1944
The title of this report could be referring to the ease of the historical victory of CCA, 4th Armored Division over 113 Panzer Brigade near the town of Arracourt on 19 September…
D&B – British Infantry Attack in Normandy.
I had been mostly running games using late war Soviet forces to get the mechanics of the rules locked down. I decided now that I was generally happy with the flow, I…
BBB – Battle of Brienne, January 1814
For games in the Napoleonic era, our group has been using two sets of rules — Et Sans Resultat (ESR) and Bloody Big Battles (BBB). Several of our most recent games had been run using the…