I have been looking for another set of rules to run 20mm WWII games for my group on Tuesday nights. I have found a number of rules that I really like, but…
Tag: British
Rank and File – Battle of Harlem Heights, September 1776.
Background The Battle of Harlem Heights was fought during the New York and New Jersey campaign of the American Revolutionary War. The action took place on September 16, 1776, in what is now the Morningside Heights area and east…
FOW – Gallabat-Metemma Campaign, Part 4.
This is the report of the fourth game of our Gallabat-Metemma campaign. Game 1 saw the capture of Fort Gallabat by British and Indian forces. Games 2 and 3 featured counterattacks by…
FOW – Gallabat-Metemma Campaign, Part 3.
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…
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…