Background The “Huzzah” Friday Afternoon Gamers met officially for the first time since the easing of COVID restrictions on 21 May ’21. As the cadre pursued their vaccinations early, they were able…
Tag: German
Flames of War Afrika Korps Project
I have been playing flames of war since version two was released, so many years ago. I had hesitated buying into the game, as I was heavily invested into micro armor and…
Battle of Radzymin (July 1944)
Background The Battle of Radzymin was one of a series of engagements between the Red Army’s 1st Byelorussian Front and the German Army’s XXXIXth Panzer Corps that occurred as part of the Lublin-Brest Offensive between 1 and 10 August 1944 at the…
Reichs Armee Takes the Field.
While going through my SYW Austrians to update them, I looked over to the next shelf at my Palatinate and Bavarian armies for the period. This got me thinking that it would…
Flames of War V4 Waffen SS Unit Card Release.
Somewhat recently Battlefront released the new Waffen SS Unit Cards and Book. I picked up the cards (I normally pass on the books) to add to my ever growing V4 rules collection….
Flames of War V4 Waffen SS Command Cards
Along with the Wafen SSUnit Card release, we also got the Waffen SS Command Card release. These are produced in the usual high gloss cards in a card board box. The set…
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…
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,…
Game 6 – Market Garden Campaign, September 1944
Our Market Garden campaign continued with the Battle for the Road Bridge at Nijmegen. We had five players in this very large game. To fit the table and number of players, we…