Battlegroup Ascendant!
I’ve been lucky to get a couple of games of Battlegroup played recently. Stiu, based in Scotland, hadn’t played before, […]
2022 Audit / 2023 Plans
Gaming I’ve played over 20 different rulesets this year! Yeah, not games… rulesets. Here’s a small sampling: I also got […]
The Battle of Bois de Bavant (Battlegroup)
8 Para Brigade of the 6th Airborne Division have established a defensive bridgehead in the Bois de Bavant. The 21st […]
2021 Audit / 2022 Plans
Gaming 2021 proved to be another weird year. It was, of course, heavily disrupted by Covid-19 and this led to […]
The Battle of the Bulge
During the Christmas break this year, I wanted to read up on the Ardennes Offensive. More than just read up […]
Battlegroup: Direct from Detroit – a Panzer Lehr Campaign (Game 3)
The Americans have had the upper hand in this campaign so far, but possession of Hauts-Vents slipped back to the […]
Battlegroup: Morning of the 902nd – a Panzer Lehr Campaign (Game 2)
Game 1 of this mini-campaign finished with the Americans in possession of Hauts-Vents, but with the morning of the 11th […]
Battlegroup: Advance to Hauts-Vents – a Panzer Lehr Campaign (Game 1)
When Flames of War version 1 was released I picked up a Panzer Lehr army. It’s a thing of beauty […]
Gembloux Gap (The Final Game)
In our last game the French stalled the Germans on the outskirts of Court St Etienne, giving the town’s defenders […]
Gembloux Gap (Game 6)
This battle, again using the fantastic Battlegroup ruleset, turned into a slugging match with both sides trying to land the […]
Gembloux Gap (Game 5)
Last time out my blitzkrieging (yeah, yeah, I know they didn’t call it that) Germans hit a speed bump in […]