With last year’s release of British D-Day British lists, I decided to go through my British infantry collection and get it up to date with version four. I had painted them as…
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FOW British Para Company
With the recent release of the Red Devils by Battlefront, I decided to go through my British elite troop collection and get it up to date with version four. I had been…
Red Devils FOW Supplement Review.
It has been a long time coming, but Battlefront has finally released the mid war supplement for British Airborne and Commandos. The have also supplement the release with a minor figure release…
Redcoats & Tomahawks, Muskets & Tomahawks Supplement Review
Following up my earlier write up on the new Muskets and Tomahawks version 2 rules, it is time to take a look at the first period supplement for the rules. Namely, Redcoats…
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…
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…
British Invasion of Abyssinia in 1935?
Background The Abyssinia Crisis was an international crisis in 1935 originating in what was called the Walwal incident in the then-ongoing conflict between the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Ethiopia (then commonly known as “Abyssinia”). The League of Nations ruled against Italy…
Game 8, Market Garden Campaign, the Breakout.
Yesterday’s big game was a fitting end to a great campaign. The British smashed through the German defenses and broke out of Arnhem. Here is the battle report. According to the brief,…