To commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, we wanted to play a beach landing game – the only problem was, we had no suitable terrain to do this….so I volunteered to create the necessary scenery, hoping it would spur me on to finish a project I had started some time ago. Terrain A few years…
Category: WW2
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…
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…