This post reports the third game of our Gallabat-Metemma mini-campaign. Our first game recreated the historical attack by the British and Indian troops of the 10th Indian Infantry Brigade to recapture the…
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FOW Gallabat-Metemma Campaign Part 2.
This post reports the second game of our Gallabat-Metemma mini-campaign. Part 1 reported our first game and also provided some historical background and notes about how we organized our campaign. Historically, while…
FOW: Gallabat-Metemma Campaign Part
Issues 433 and 434 of Wargames Illustrated magazine ran two articles titled, “The Battle of Gallabat” and “The Attack on Fort Gallabat.” The articles provide background, orders of battle, a map of the operational…
FOW – Operation Epsom, June 1944
For our final game set in Normandy, we dusted off a scenario that we created over ten years ago (how time flies!). None of our new guys had ever played it, so…
Lend Lease Armor Project – British Flail Tanks.
The next unit up in the project was two platoons of M4 Sherman Crabs. These models come from Battlefield 3d. I always wanted flail tanks for my forces, but did not like…
BBB : ECW – Battle of Glastonbury, June 1643.
The Battle of Glastonbury was an action fought on 12 June 1643 in the southwest of England. The outnumbered forces of Parliament were trying to delay the Royalist advance long enough for…
FOW – Operation Archery, December 1941.
The next theme for our weekly WW2 Flames of War games was “Special Operations”. This theme was partly inspired by the “Raids” volume in the “Forgotten Battles” series of scenario books (which…
R&F – British vs Colonials Action.
It was time for some horse and musket action. Most of my stuff is still hors de combat, due to my never ending home repair project. As such, I reached out to…
FOW – British Infantry Support
I had put together a company of British late war infantry some time ago. I organized each platoon to sue them as mech infantry support for my tanks. I decided it would…
R&P – Defense of the Walled Road.
We were fresh from coming back from Fall in and it was time to run another Rebels and Patriots game. Unfortunately, much of my stuff is currently not accessible due to a…