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…
Category: Battle Report
Durham Wargames Group Open Day 2018
Display Game by Conrad Cairns We had our annual Open Day on the traditional second Saturday of June. It is also traditional for the Trooping of the Colour, but with recording technology this is a good opportunity those those who like it to record it then watch and edit out the dull bits (as much…
LARDDAY on 25th March 2017 at Durham Wargames Group – a partial review
Words by Conrad Cairns Pictures by Richard Phelan The DWG has for years had an Open Day on the second Saturday of June, and has now started a new tradition. In March we put on, for a whole Saturday, a selection of games and invite fellow gamers to play. There is no fee, but you…
Waterloo with Big Battalions: 10th May 2014
By Conrad Cairns For three years now Durham Wargames Group have taken 54mm display games to Carronade, one of Scotland’s leading-and most enjoyable- shows, put on by the Falkirk club. This year we followed up the War of 1812 in Canada and the 1777 campaign near Philadelphia with what we hope will be the first…
Over The Hill (Crossfire)
By Graeme Carroll Operation Epsom, Summer 1944 This is a scenario I’d wanted to use for some time, it being a Too Fat Lardies scenario. Not everyone in our group likes the TFL Rules though, so I wanted to try Crossfire (Arty Conliffe) at “Fireteam” level to see if it would work (in readiness for…
Seleucids vs Royal Macedonians: Warhammer Ancient Battles (2nd Edition)
By Paul Stevenson Played first WAB2 game (or, at least, first six hours of it) this afternoon. Slightly anachronistic later Successors game, with Seleucids vs Royal Macedonians (Antigonids). Anachronistic in that we still gave the Antigonids Companion cavalry in good numbers whilst the Seleucids had started the changeover to cataphracts and imitation legion, but still…