Club Event: 19-20 November 2022 For many years now at Durham Wargames Group we have occasionally played large scale multi-player Napoleonic games using 15mm figures – trying to refight some of the great battles of the period. For rules we have used both Napoleon’s Battles and Sam Mustafa’s Blücher, excellent sets. We have fought part…
Category: Battle Report
Cortes in Mexico
DWG Battleground Game: Saturday 30th November 2019 By Conrad Cairns Never a group to miss the chance of jumping on a bandwagon, especially one of so slow-moving as this one is in Britain, we decided to revisit Mesoamerican warfare of the sixteenth century to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the campaigns (1519-1521) which broke the…
God Thunders Mightily in the Steppes of Central Asia
by CONRAD CAIRNS- November 2018 A few months ago, that ever-resourceful Yorkshire firm of Irregular Miniatures released a small range of Russian foot and guns for the armies that conquered cental asian khanates between the early1860s and mid 1880s. This was the final piece we needed to game a hitherto-unexploited set of wars, which sound…
ADLG-R: Ottomans v Holy Roman Empire c1530
We have been looking for a set of rules for Renaissance gaming for what seems like forever, Principles of War being the set we have used the most…it is, however, very math heavy so perhaps not as accessible as some sets. When I heard that there was an adaption of my favourite Ancients/Medieval set, which…
Spearhead – Take the Twin Villages
Last game of Spearhead for a few weeks until we return to it later in the year. This time, rather than Normandy, I wanted something where we could get a few more “toys” on the table, so I used the “Take the Twin Villages” scenario from the Rapid Fire Battle of the Bulge book. British…
Spearhead: Lebisey, 7 June 1944
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…