Another day, another Spearhead battle report – this time the battle at Lebisey on 7 June 1944 where 3rd Division tries to break through 21st Panzer’s defences in the Lebisey woods to reach Caen. This was based on Scenario 2 of the Rapid Fire Normandy Battlegames/Battlegroups books, available via Wargames Vault. They are well worth…
Author: Graeme Carroll
Spearhead: Villiers-le-Sec
Next year is the 75th anniversary of a number of the major events of WW2, and always one to plan ahead, I have been working my way through several rule sets as part of the preparation for several large games I am planning to commemorate the events. World War 2 is a particularly difficult period…
Chain of Command
I’ve been looking for a set of WW2 rules for a couple of different scales, first for my 15mm figures I am looking for something which gives a game that is approx 1:1, and secondly, I am after something for larger combined arms games using my 10mm figures, of which I have gazillions. I am…
New Project & Evolving Painting Styles
I am starting a new “force” to go along with my already completed Darkest Africa figures, this time the dreaded Force Publique…’cos everyone needs a bad guy to face, even the Arab Slavers…!!! I have bought one pack each of: Foundry Force Publique , plus Foundry Askari Mountain Gun. I’ve learned a lot over the…
In Darkest Africa (Homebrew Rules)
So, after lots of playing around with rules for the display game I am doing at our Wargames Show, I’ve decided on a mix of rulesets – I am using most of the “Congo” rules and mechanisms, but am also using the activation system from Donnybrook/Sharp Practice. We’ve had three test games so far, and…
Darkest Africa: Donnybrook
Another week, another set of rules – this week it was Donnybrook, from the League of Augsburg team – http://leagueofaugsburg.blogspot.co.uk/ I’m looking for a set of rules (a) to use for a display game at our clubs show (http://www.durhamwargames.co.uk/show/index.htm), and (b) to use as a generic skirmish set that we can dip into from time…