After my last post I got some good advice from Pádraic, a local player who, along with the Warheads, has gotten into Flames of War in a big way over the last couple of years. The advice was to not … Continue reading
A while ago I wrote a series of posts on learning to play Hordes. The idea wasn’t so much about learning the basic rules of the game as it was about learning to effectively use my Legion of Everblight army. … Continue reading
On the 16th December 1944 the Panzer Lehr Division were participating in the early stages of the Battle of the Bulge. This scenario represents their advance towards the town of Drauffelt in northern Luxembourg and their attempt to establish a … Continue reading
Tonight Peter and I played a game as part of Operation Sealion, a world wide ‘what if’ campaign being run by the WWPD guys focussing on the seaborne invasion of the United Kingdom. This fictitious fight is taking place between … Continue reading
After Action Report This game is set just before dawn on the 21st December 1944, just on the northern edge of Bizory, near Bastogne. The German’s are pressing their attack which started the night before. Dog company from 2nd Battalion … Continue reading
I’m looking forward to game two of this mini campaign. The last game was somewhat of a stalemate with the Germans slowly pushing the American paratroopers back towards Bizory. That game was set on the evening of the 20th December … Continue reading
Some games revolve around a single dice role. This was one of those games. After writing this scenario I stumbled upon an excellent blog post about the fighting of the Second Battalion 501st PIR at Bizory, Belgium in December 1944 … Continue reading
General Bradley welcomed the idea of a German counterattack as an opportunity to deal a severe blow to their ability to defend their homeland. In December 1944 Hitler launched his last offensive, but it was more than Bradley or anyone … Continue reading
I love the painting element of this hobby and the idea of buying models that have already been painting generally doesn’t appeal to me. My FLGS (Gamers World) buys and sells second-hand models and recently there was some German WWII … Continue reading
This is more of a battle overview than a full report. Peter and I played out a massive 2400pts game with my Panzer Lehr taking on his 3rd Infantry Division in the Hasty Assault scenario. I was the attacker as … Continue reading
This is the third post in my Audit series (the first on, on Warmachine and Hordes, is here and the second on Malifaux is here). This time around it’s a game that I don’t get to play much, but that … Continue reading
Last week @docbungle suggested a good idea – namely, that wargamers/painters do a status update on a Monday of the hobby related things they did over the weekend and use the #miniaturemonday tag on twitter. Here’s my update for this … Continue reading
I’ve been painting these guys over the last week. I used watered down Devlan Mud instead of the Army Painter Dark Shade dip for the quick shading. The results are about the same, so I might use it in future! … Continue reading
If you’re not familiar with the German army from WWII that title probably makes no sense (unless you speak German)! I’ll explain what’s what as I go. With the addition of these platoons my German army is starting to get … Continue reading
My Flames of War Panzer Lehr force is growing in size, so I decided to take a few minutes to take some pictures. I have loads of things to paint, but an armoured heavy mortar platoon is probably next on … Continue reading