May 15th, 1940. The germans have broken the french front at Sedán and at least 3 panzer divisions have crossed the Meuse, aiming for the canal coast. But in doing so, they have left a very weakened left flank. The tiny village of Stonne, with its privilieged views over the meuse crossing sites, must be …
Read More French Attack on Stonne. May 1940.
May 27th, 1940. Informal dispatch from Captain Lewis-Stokes from 4th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers. Look Sean look! Jerry is retreating, the Germans are retreating! We have gave them a bloody nose!. All started this morning…. First an aerial view from our recce plane to better follow the account: This is another river line to defend. …
Read More One river more to defend (British view)
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
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
2017 started in our group with planning for a new try at the Barbarossa Campaign that comes in the BGBarb book. That is: “The Last Line” campaign. That is a most excellent book and the campaign game that comes included is superb. We played last year (2016), and had tons of fun. That time, in …
Read More New Battlegroup Barbarossa Campaign. Detailed log.
Outskirts of Calais, France, May 24th, 1940. Late afternoon. German forces of the 10th Panzer Division try to close in with the belaguered defenders of Calais. Mixed forces from 3rd RTR and the 2nd Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps (The 60th) try to stop them. This a Blitzkrieg small platoon-level game (420 points each). I …
Read More How to lose a Kampfgruppe in 3 turns. A Battlegroup Blitzkrieg AAR
This past weekend I finally got the chance to try early WWII with Victory Decision, before I had mostly done Sci Fi and W-WWII. My friend Adam thought it was a good chance to take some Brits and DAK for spin. So out came the desert table ! The armies were pretty straight forward, …
Read More Early war in Africa with Victory Decision WWII – AAR
This is my first attempt at a painting guide. I´m no expert painter nor had ever a great skill at it. I took ages to paint these BEF vehicles. Also keep in mind that my objective is to get 1/72 BEF vehicles for wargaming purposes, not modelling ones. As most of you already know, the …
Read More Powermonger´s BEF G3/G4 scheme painting guide