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 […]
The Battle of Bois de Bavant (Nuts! solo-play)
8 Para Brigade of the 6th Airborne Division were due to be dropped in DZ-K, east of the River Orne […]
Flames of War Tournament…
… yes, you read that right, I played in a tournament! It’s been a long time since I played in […]
Pegasus Bridge (Memoir ’44)
Memoir ’44 is one of the quickest and most fun boardgame/wargame we play here. It gives both a flavour of […]
Bastogne War Museum and Bois Jacques (Photodump)
The Bastogne War Museum is quite possibly the best museum I have ever visited. The Bois Jacques Augmented Reality experience […]
‘O’ Group: Some thoughts…
I’ve been playing around with ‘O’ Group. I ordered it when released, but hadn’t put it on the table until […]
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 […]
2021 – Wargaming In Photos
I think we’ll all agree that 2021 was a weird year. That said, I managed to get plenty of wargaming […]
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 […]
Undaunted Normandy: Solo Play
Undaunted Reinforcements introduced several new elements to the two existing Undaunted games. One of which is a set of cards […]
Nuts! Revisited
Encounter #1: British Paratroopers advance on a farmhouse near Wolfheze British Paratroopers, led by Platoon Sergeant Jennings, move along the […]
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 […]