Finally, summer has come to these latitudes, and we all have more time time to wargame with my new BEF & French toys. It is may 23th, 1940. The BEF is retreating and rapidly running out of places to fall back to. Another river line must be defended in order to buy time to organise a …
Read More Backs to the sea. The BEF (tries to) stand fast.
It is may 14th 1940. The BEF has arrived at the Dyle River to man their pre-planned defensive positions. Several Recce units from both sides are having sharp skirmishes both west and east of the river. This is an encounter between some recce units. Parent units are from BEF I corps (2nd infantry Division) and …
Read More Clash of reconnaissance near the Dyle
May 21st, 1940. 1st army tank brigade plus some Durham light Infantry try to blunt the german advance across northern France. First victory for the BEF! After two defeats, the third attempt to break the german defences near Berneville was successful. A defence line scenario. 683 points per side. Company level game. 683 points is …
Read More BEF Counter-attack at Berneville. A BG Blitzkrieg AAR.
I’ve been interested in Blood and Plunder since I saw the kickstarter since I’ve always wanted a game where you can play naval actions, one vs one ship activating different units in the ships. It is not easy to have a set of rules for those kind of games that is still fun and tactically …
Read More Blood & Plunder – big multiplayer game
15 days ago we had a new battle of our Barbarossa Campaign. Duel at Rozrazh. a 500 points BGBarbarossa encounter battle. Base scenario is “Flanking Attack” This time i had no time to post a proper AAR at the moment. But want to share some photos anyway. The terrain The fascist vermin Regards, Diego
Read More Duel at Rozrazh.
It´s 07:59hs on july 2nd, 1941. Task force Lukin had set up a nice pincer attack on the Germans defenders of Ostrog North. A determined Soviet attack combined forces from both Ostrog Centre and Rozrazh. The red sledgehammer would also receive support from partisan forces hidden in the cellars of Ostrog North. However, the Germans …
Read More Red Storm over Ostrog North. A Battlegroup Barbarossa AAR
One of our wargamers recently converted to Scrappers ( let’s just call him Nacho* ) decided to spend some extra time creating an excel builder for to make it easier to come up with your crew. Well his work is just fantastic. The file is really useful. You still need to know the rules for …
Read More Excel builder for Scrappers
So after a couple of weeks since getting my book and after getting some painted models bought online I was able to try my first games of Scrappers, the new Osprey rules for squad level games in a Sci Fi post apocalyptic future. The rules use my favorite squad level rules, Brink of Battle as …
Read More Scrappers, first games !!
On Saturday at Chez Smith we decided to give Osprey’s colonial rules, The Men Who Would Be Kings, a try. Many of us have colonial troops of various sorts and had played The Sword and the Flame for many years. But the protracted close action and decision gridlock when deciding which units to move always seemed …
Read More First Game of The Men Who Would Be Kings
War in Aegyptus !!! I started wargaming back in the 80s with Warhammer Fantasy Battle 3rd edtion. We built pretty large armies and even continued using 3ed edition with house rules as new editions were coming out. Over tiime I shifter to historical wargaming but my love for fantasy battle wargaming never dimishished, …
Read More First playtest of Sword and Spear Fantasy