BLUF: At 1200 hours on 17 September, the Germans made a battalion-sized hasty attack against the US defenses guarding the western approaches to the 101st Airborne’s drop zone near Best. This attack…
Tag: Historical
What if, the Germans sortied out of Brest…
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, and was a major part of the Naval history of World War II. At…
Battle of Mortain, August 1944
Background Operation Lüttich was a codename given to a German counter-attack during the Battle of Normandy, which took place around the American positions near Mortain in northwestern France from 7 August to 13 August 1944. (Lüttich is the German…
Battle of Alytus, June 1941
Background The tank battle near Alytus between German tanks and those of (the) Soviet 5th Tank division was probably the hardest combat ever conducted by 7th Panzer Division in the Second World…
Battle of Abensberg, April 1809
We played the Battle of Abensberg (20 April 1809). With only a short amount of time to prepare for the game, we simply adapted the scenario published in “The First Battle Lost”,…
THE WACHTMEISTER GOES TO SAMICON 2019
Last weekend Lard America hosted a Too Fat Lardies Game Day at Huzzah Hobbies in Ashburn Virginia. Over the course of the day over thirty Lardies played in nine different games. There…
Battle of Arracourt, September 1944
Background The Battle of Arracourt took place between U.S. and German armoured forces near the town of Arracourt, Lorraine, France between 18 and 29 September 1944, during World War II. As part of a counteroffensive against recent U.S. advances…
Second Battle of Tel El Eisa, October 1942
Background The Second Battle of El Alamein (23 October – 11 November 1942) was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. The First Battle of El Alamein and the Battle of Alam…
National Museum of Americans in Wartime 2019 Tank Farm Open House
My Outer Banks fun extravaganza was cut short by Hurricane Dorian last week.. So had to make lemonade out of lemons. As with all things in life, things just usually work out…
Queens of Egypt at National Geographic Museum
I recently took the tour of the Queens of Egypt display at the National Graphic Museum in Washington D.C. The showing has been on display this summer and was recently extended into…