With the recent release of Valour & Fortitude Version 4, the next Horse and Musket theme night at the Wollongong Wargamers was eagerly anticipated. Above, the Austrian team: Darren, Peter and David II.Peter adapted the excellent Little Wars…
This Sunday's Solo game was a long delayed return to Team Yankee in 15mm.Like this blog, the preparation for a few minutes of intense fighting took much longer than the actual combat!The Battlegroup consisted of two troops of Challenger Is,…
This week at the Wollongong Wargamers, for some oversized 1/700th scale naval fun we are in the Pacific, November 1943. Darren came up with a convoy protection scenario: The US is preparing to invade the Gilbert Islands, so the Imperial Jap…
The ScenarioAfter setting up the table, the Confederates seemed closer to the Union than ideal - Rifled Musket range was reduced from 24" to 18".The Union LinesHays and Gibbon's troops were deployed historically, making full use of the ston…
This week's theme at the Wollongong Wargamers was 'WW2 Skirmish'. So Achtung Panzer! We hadn't played for a long while, and Amos hadn't played at all, so we set up a very simple encounter battle. Judging by the AFVs chosen, we'll call it (v…
Last night at the Wollongong Wargamers Peter laid on a Flames of War / Clash of Steel mash up to represent the encounter battle during Op GAZALA between 15th Panzer and the 4th Armoured Brigade. That was a good looking tank battle and actio…
This week at the Wollongong Wargamers, Daniel, Scott and I played Clash of Steel, based on the first release: Operation Unthinkable, set in 1948. I love these rules and period. Not only do they provide a dynamic, tactically rich yet fun gam…
This Sunday the Wollongong Wargamers' Sunday Demo game at the Illawarra Plastic Modeller's Show was a Team Yankee extravaganza: 2 big tables, each representing an adjacent valley in the Fulda Gap: Two splendid looking games there Ralph, onl…
Another very nice scenario there Ralph, but a tough ask for the Prussians against the Imperial Guard? How did things pan out historically? As always, a lovely game to behold:). Thanks Steve! Yes its never easy to balance scenarios when you
Looks like it will be a great game Sparker and will generate a lot of interest.All I could contribute is the 512th Super Duper Heavy Panzer Battalion although probably the 1980's is a bit late for it.https://miniwarsyoumayhavemissed.blogspo…
This Clash of Steel game is inspired by the tank duel in Elsdorf between M26 Pershings and Tiger 1s. The battle took place during the Allied advance into Germany’s Rhineland, Operation LUMBERJACK, aiming to capture key locations, including
Bit of a strange title, but I was testing a draft scenario designed for an all day game, but only had an evening to do so! So we cut the terrain in half and reduced the size of the formations involved. We still didn't really finish the game…