Tag Archives: WW1

  1. Solo wargaming: Storm of Steel Wargaming – highly recommended

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    May 19, 2020 by wargamerchris

    While we’ve each been finding our own paths through this lockdown period, one of the things I have been grateful …
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  2. 15mm Polish-Soviet War game debut

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    October 13, 2018 by wargamerchris

    We set this up last night for a Saturday try – this will be a first of three games linked …
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  3. New rules – putting some play into the Great War in 15mm (and 28mm, and so on)

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    October 13, 2018 by wargamerchris

    It all started for me at a Winter War Convention in the old Foreign Languages Building in Champaign when I …
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  4. 15mm Soviet-Polish War 1919-1921

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    October 13, 2018 by wargamerchris

    New projects are always a lite challenging and yet maybe among the best experiences for me in the hobby. Here …
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  5. 15mm Gallipoli game played out….

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    April 21, 2018 by wargamerchris

    So son #2 and I were able to play the Gallipoli scenario we had laid out. I pushed the five …
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  6. 15mm Command Decision Test of Battle – Gallipoli scenario

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    February 7, 2018 by wargamerchris

    Warning:  This was not a historical simulation set up. My 11 yo, a talented gamer, is studying Gallipoli, and in …
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  7. 25mm WW1 Coastal U-boat

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    November 30, 2017 by wargamerchris

    One of many small updates tonight. This piece has languished in my primed but never painted mountain for perhaps a …
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Small Soldiers

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Wargame Rules

Rules I’m gaming with now:

Lions Rampant/ Dragons Rampant
Black Powder
Age of Eagles/ Age of Valor/ Fire and Fury
Force on Force/ Ambush Alley/ Ambush Z!
Hail Caesar
Command Decision: Test of Battle
Battles for Empire 2
LOTR
Pride of Lions
The Sword and the Flame

Rules I’m Considering:

Sword and Spear/ Sword and Spear Fantasy
Regimental Fire and Fury
Open Combat
Chain of Command
Sharpe Practice 2
Wilderness Wars
Test of Honour
Field of Battle
Pike and Shotte (Warlord)
General de Armee (TFL)
Flames of War – Vietnamese/ WW2

Rules I still need to find to make my life better:

15mm Napoleonic mass battles rules (holy grail)
15mm War of the Spanish Succession mass battle rules
15mm Zombie mass battle rules

Blogroll:

Command Decision Test of Battle Forum:

http://www.testofbattle.com/phpBB2/

Din of Battle:

http://dinofbattle.blogspot.com/

Henry Hyde’s Site:

http://henrys-wargaming.co.uk

Dan Mersey – author of a couple of rules sets we like:

/http://merseybooks.blogspot.co.uk/

Miniature Addiction:

http://miniatureaddiction.info/

Wasatch Front HMGS (Journals):

http://www.wfhgs.com

Bartertown:

http://www.bartertown.com/trading/

Big Force on Force (Great modern gaming)

https://bigfof.blogspot.com

Last Stand Dan:

http://laststanddan.blogspot.com/

 

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