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Chain of Command: Battle of Bréville

Background In June 1944 Bréville-les-Monts was occupied by the 346th Infantry Division, a location that allowed the defenders to observe

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Battlegroup: First Game and the Tailleville Campaign finale

4th January 20193rd June 2019 owen 0 Comments Battlegroup, Campaign, Tailleville

Peter and I have been using the Chain of Command rules and their campaign system to play a campaign I

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2018 Audit / 2019 Plans

1st January 2019 owen 1 Comment Audit, Battlegroup, Blood Angels, Chain of Command, Deathwatch, Gaslands, Genestealer Cults, Kill Team, Saga, Terrain, Warhammer 40000

Another year, another audit. In last year’s audit I predicted I’d play more 40k, get Malifaux going again and get

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Chain of Command – The Tailleville Campaign (Game 4)

15th August 201816th August 2018 owen 0 Comments 736th Infantry Division, At the Sharp End, Campaign, Canadian, Chain of Command, D-Day, German, Normandy, North Shore Regiment, Tailleville

Overview The Canadians are off of the beach and have begun their push south towards Tailleville. They were delayed longer

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Chain of Command – The Tailleville Campaign (Game 3)

6th August 20186th August 2018 owen 0 Comments 736th Infantry Division, At the Sharp End, Campaign, Canadian, Chain of Command, D-Day, German, Normandy, North Shore Regiment, Tailleville

Overview After two failed attempts to push off the beach in this sector the Canadian commander reluctantly decided to commit

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Chain of Command – The Tailleville Campaign (Game 2)

24th June 201825th June 2018 owen 0 Comments 736th Infantry Division, At the Sharp End, Campaign, Canadian, Chain of Command, D-Day, German, Normandy, North Shore Regiment, Tailleville

Overview Déjà vu for the Canadians. Following their failure to get through the dunes a little earlier in the day the

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Chain of Command – The Tailleville Campaign (Game 1)

20th June 2018 owen 1 Comment 736th Infantry Division, At the Sharp End, Campaign, Canadian, Chain of Command, D-Day, German, Normandy, North Shore Regiment, Tailleville

Overview This is Game 1 of our campaign. Peter is leading his company of Canadians in their attempt to seize

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Chain of Command – The Tailleville Campaign (Scenarios and Support)

19th June 201823rd June 2018 owen 2 Comments 736th Infantry Division, At the Sharp End, Campaign, Canadian, Chain of Command, D-Day, German, Normandy, North Shore Regiment, Tailleville

In my last post I outlined the Tailleville campaign, giving a little historic context and the high-level disposition of the forces

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Chain of Command – The Tailleville Campaign Overview

17th June 201812th January 2019 owen 1 Comment Campaign, Canada, Canadian, Chain of Command, German, Tailleville, Wehrmacht

The At the Sharp End supplement (P.11) for Chain of Command outlines a campaign that sets the Canadians of the North

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15mm M3 Halftracks… for VASSAL!

8th June 201831st July 2018 owen 0 Comments 15mm, Battlegroup, Chain of Command, USA, Vassal

I’m on a bit of a Chain of Command / Battlegroup kick at the moment, which has led to a

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Assault on Abbaye de Poulet (Chain of Command; Vassal)

3rd June 2018 owen 0 Comments British, Chain of Command, Germans

Peter and I kicked the tyres on my CoC Vassal module last night with his British infantry platoon attacking my

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Chain of Command – DAK vs British (North Africa ’41)

3rd May 20183rd May 2018 owen 0 Comments British, Chain of Command, DAK, Vassal

Paul and I got a chance to play a game of Chain of Command on VASSAL. Here’s a quick AAR.

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Chain of Command on VASSAL

13th April 201813th April 2018 owen 0 Comments Chain of Command, Solo Play, Vassal

I’ve been tinkering with VASSAL modules for quite a few years and recently I decided to throw together one for

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15mm US Riflemen for Chain of Command (Video)

2nd March 201825th February 2018 owen 0 Comments 15mm, Chain of Command, USA, Video

I painted these guys fairly recently and now have a full platoon with support options painted: 2 x Senior Leader

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First Game of Chain of Command

23rd February 201823rd February 2018 owen 0 Comments Americans, Chain of Command, Germans, Patrol

… and it was superb! I’m sure myself and Paul got a load of rules wrong, but I think we

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