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…
Tag: Historical
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…
15mm Napoleonic French Army
Moving right along on me backlog of “almost done” armies, my next group to bring to completion was the French army (how can you play Napoleonics without french!). The figures are all…
British Invasion of Abyssinia in 1935? (Part II)
We adapted a scenario taken from the old “Battlefields” magazine which proposed a counterfactual US intervention into Italian Somaliland in November 1935 in response to Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia. We substituted a…
15mm Napoleonic KGL Army
I have had a backlog of figures that I have either painted or had painted for quite some time. Finally working to get them finished, slowly but surely! Here is my new…