I have been running games of Muskets and Tomahawks rules ever since the original rules were released. They have been my go to rules for running skirmish French and Indian War games…
Tag: Historical
15mm Napoleonic Austrian Army, Gajo Miniatures
I am continuing “Operation Flock” on my 15mm figures. Slowly but surely clearing up the backlog of painted minis that just need basing to be finished. Next up was my 15mm Napoleonic…
Rubicon M4A3 Sherman Build
I took a little break last week from the family and did some model building. I decided to start my work on some American tanks and opted for the Rubicon M4A3 Sherman….
QRG 15mm Belgian Vehicles
I somewhat recently finished the troops for a Belgian Infantry company for Flames of War. However, I still needed to assemble and paint the vehicles for the formation. Battlefront actually never produced…
Osipovitchi, October 1941
Overview: Six of us played a scenario taken from the May 1981 issue of “Wargamer’s Digest.” The scenario was large enough that we used the orders of battle verbatim from the magazine….
Flames of War Rear Guard
It was time for another World War II Wednesday and we decided it would be a good time to set up a standard FOW scenario. In this game, I opted for the…
Battle of Auerstadt, October 1806
Background The battles of Auerstädt were fought on 14 October 1806 on the plateau west of the river Saale in today’s Germany, between the forces of Napoleon I of France and Frederick William III of Prussia. The decisive…
Battle of Dettingen, June 1743
Background The Battle of Dettingen (German: Schlacht bei Dettingen) took place on 27 June 1743 during the War of the Austrian Succession, at Dettingen, now Karlstein am Main in Bavaria. It was fought between a Pragmatic Army, composed of British, Hanoverian…
Rolling up the Juba Line, February 1941
The East African campaign (also known as the Abyssinian campaign) was fought in East Africa during the Second World War by Allied forces, mainly from the British Empire, against Axis forces, Italy and their colony of Italian East Africa, between June 1940 and November 1941. Forces of…
15mm Late Napoleonic Saxon Army
Continuing on my great flocking exercise, my next army for bringing to completion is the late Napoleonic wars army of Saxony. Here we go… The figures are all Eureka 15mm. I sent…