A report of our most recent American Civil War engagement using the Volley & Bayonet rules and 6mm miniatures. This fictional engagement was set in June 1863. The 15th of June found the Army of Northern Virginia moving north for its invasio…
This week a report of our most recent Napoleonic engagement using the Volley & Bayonet rules and 6mm miniatures. This fictional engagement was set in October of 1813. With the summer truce at an end the allies, now bolstered by the Austrian…
The following is a "what if encounter" to mark the 210th anniversary of the series of battles fought between the 16th and 19th of June 1815. Our game was fought over the Quatre Bras battlefield, the hypothesis being that Wellington had conc…
What follows is a report of our most recent Napoleonic engagement using the Volley & Bayonet rules and 6mm miniatures. This fictional engagement is set in 1809 where the French have crossed the Danube east of Vienna and are confronted by th…
The following is a battle report of a fictional engagement using the Volley & Bayonet rules and 6mm miniatures. It involved five players with the scenario developed using the "Road to Glory" scenario system. To provide some context the Hund…
The following is a fictional battle report fought using the Volley & Bayonet rules and 6mm miniatures. It involved two players with the scenario developed using the "Road to Glory" scenario system. When the armistice ended the campaign agai…
The following is a report of a recent fictional Franco-Prussian War engagement using Volley & Bayonet and 6mm miniatures. This game involved three players, two commanding the Prussians and one commanding the French. With war immanent Napole…
The following is a summary of our most recent fictional Franco-Prussian War engagement. This game involved two players and found the first of my recently completed Prussians deployed for action. The Prussians were gaining ground across the
Friday evening provided another opportunity to revisit the Battle of Gaines’ Mill, part of my 160th anniversary project. This was our second refight of Gaines’ Mill within a week, though this time it drew two different players into the refi…
This blog is an occasional record of my 18th and 19th Century era games played using 6mm miniatures and the “Volley & Bayonet Road to Glory” rules. The aim with this blog is to compliment my main Volley & Bayonet Website focusing here on ba…
The Franco-Prussian War provides plenty of challenges for wargamers used to fighting the earlier wars in the black powder era. With the widespread use of breech loading rifles and improved artillery warfare had been transformed. For our gro…
The following is a summary of the action most recently fought sent from General Lee to President Davis. Headquarters Army of Northern Virginia near Culpepper, Virginia, August 25th, 1862 My letter of yesterday indicated that it was likely w…