This scenario represents 7th Infantry Regiment’s attempt to cross the railway line that forms the main line of German defences in front of Highway 7 west of Cisterna. Historically, the Americans were unable to get their armour across the cutting holding the railway line because the Germans had blown the only bridge. This is an…
Black Powder at Wilson’s Creek
By Paul D. Stevenson The View Across Wilson’s Battlefield Game Preparation The Black Powder rules cover 1700-1900 – a broad period spectrum it is true but the authors have managed to avoid many of the usual minefields and pitfalls by making the rules so very open-ended and adaptable on a strong, yet essentially simple gaming…
Sharp Practice: American War of Independence
Well, a new day, a new set of rules….this time “Sharp Practice” from the “Too Fat Lardies” stable. There are a number of lardies (in both senses of the word) but this was the first time our little sub-group had tried out the rules… The sides were: British: CiC – Colonel Archiebald Andrews on Horse…
Flashman and the Pirates
as presented at Border Reiver 2008 by Durham Wargames Group This game combined into one event two related operations of the Royal Navy in the 1840s against Chinese pirates and those of Borneo. As far as is known, there was never a Sino-Dyak alliance, but as the Chinese diaspora was already very sizeable we felt…
What’s the point of Wargaming?
(Or how playing games helps little boys turn into bigger boys) Durham Wargames Group is very much at a high watermark at the moment. We’re winning awards for the activities of some members (Durham’s Chosen Men), and we are starting to expand out into the wider gaming community. With a newly constituted committee and some…
Viva El Potato!
A Company Level Game set in the Spanish Civil War “I’ve got some 42mm Spanish Civil War figures. Have you got some rules we could use for them?” Now that’s not the sort of challenge that gets turned down at Durham Wargames Group and soon plans were afoot for a showdown in Castilla la Mancha…