Hi folks, It’s been a few months since we last posted what we’ve been up to the site; however we’re going to try and do this more often as we go forward. This week Stuart, Dave & Ross played out a “pick-up-and-play” game of “The Men Who would be Kings” (TMWWBK) by Osprey. Scenario: Set […]
This months Sunday game (held on 1st April) saw the club re-fighting the Battle of Lutzen – the 1st major battle of the 1813 German Campaign. The following is a brief After Action Report – words and pictures by Ross. The battle started at 11:20am with the Prussian I Korps, under the command of Gebhard von […]
words & photos by Stuart. Ruleset used: Stuart’s own set based on “Ancient and Medieval Warfare” by Neil Thomas. Battle Of Magnesia We like to try to stick to a single set of rules for a few weeks at the club. This lets everyone get use to the rules and the period and get into it, […]
words & pics by Stuart HOW are proving an excellent set of rules. Last night we played this scenario from the HOW forum as I hadn’t had a chance to put together something of my own. You can find it here HOW Forum We used my Russians as the Pragmatic army and a mix of […]
Words by Alistair The Berezina crossing is often portrayed as the end of Napoleon’s army in Russia. This is only half-correct. It is true that an estimated thirty thousand stragglers and non-combatants failed to cross to the western side, but the actions of the rearguard formed by Victor’s IX Corps and the army’s vanguard saved […]
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