The next stop on my road trip was the Fort Pitt Park and Museum. It is located in the downtown area of the city, at the confluence of the three rivers. The…
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Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum.
The next stop on my road trip was the Pennsylvania Soldier and Sailors Museum in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The museum is located downtown, at the edge of Pitt University. Luckily for me, it…
Flight 93 Memorial Visit
Just got home from a nice road trip in the greater Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area. Posting this, I also see that I forgot to post an away message before I left. So, that…
FOW – Battle of Brody, June 1941
To kick off our Barbarossa theme month, some players requested the Battle of Brody (1941), which ran over the course of several days in late June 1941, and which might have been…
FOW – Finnish Anti Tank Support
I posted my almost completed Finnish army some time back. This included my infantry and support weapons for two companies of troops. The one missing piece for the leg mounted force was…
FOW – Battle of Schoenfliess, April 1945
We adapted a scenario published in a recent edition of Wargames, Soldiers, and Strategy to play the Battle of Schoenfliess (1945) using Flames of War rules. We also used Google Earth for…
Twilight of Devine Right Rules Playtest – Battle of Saint Gothard (1664)
The Battle of Saint Gotthard (Turkish: Saint Gotthard Muharebesi; German: Schlacht bei St. Gotthard; Hungarian: Szentgotthárdi csata), of the Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664), took place on 1 August 1664 on the Raab between Mogersdorf and the Cistercian monastery St. Gotthard in German West Hungary (today Hungary). It was fought between Imperial…
FOW- Bagration Hungarian Unit Card Review
I’m a little late on this one, but honestly forgot that I did not write up the review, after taking the pictures. This is funny, as I was the most excited about…
Crimean War British Army for BBB
As part my expanding Bloody Big Battles expansion, I thought it would be nice to be able to run scenarios taking place during the Crimean War. No one in my group had…
FOW – Action by Kampfgruppe Stachwitz, July 1944.
The second small scenario I tested was an action by Kampfgruppe Stachwitz during the Kursk offensive in 1943. The rules used were Flames of War Version 4, with the unit reference cards…