Games for Historicon 2016
Historicon returns to the Fredericksburg Expo and Convention Center on July 14-17 this year. This year’s theme is “Cavalry, Mounted warfare through the ages”. Myself and a couple of my gaming buddies here in Winchester are making the trip and running a few games.
15mm Soviet Cavalry from Old Glory ready to march to Historicon
Friday at 9 AM Brett and Brian will be putting on a big Lion Rampant game. Brian is custom building a bunch of terrain for the game and it should be a nice spectacle. Read More…
Vyazma or Bust with Battlegroup: Barbarossa
“You can take a picture of it [the dead KV-2] if you put it on your blog. You haven’t put anything there in years”
The picture was snapped and so the challenge accepted. After a 3-ish year hiatus, I am back with some accounts of our latest game.
Last year at Historicon I got a chance to try out the Battlegroup series of WWII rules from Ironfist Publishing. I enjoyed the games a lot and so brought the rules home for the group to try, where they have also been a hit. I’ll let others provide a review, but we have really enjoyed these as they move fast, have enough command uncertainty, and create historically reasonable outcomes.
For our latest venture we have been playing the Vyazma or Bust campaign written for IABSM and converting the scenarios to use with the Battlegroup: Barbarossa rules. This campaign is set during the fall of 1941 as a part of the Barbarossa campaign.
Barrage 2013
IABSM – Blenneville or Bust: Avaux
The second scenario of the IABSM Blenneville or Bust campaign featured an attack by the British against German positions near the fictitious town of Avaux. We played this scenario way back in the spring, so details are sketchy at best, but it was a good, close run game. As with the previous installment of the campaign, if you are planning to play the campaign and don’t want to know the particulars, consider this your official spoiler alert.
Roman Ships Going to Barrage Gaming Day
The Harford Area Weekly Kriegspielers (HAWKS) are hosting their annual gaming day, Barrage, on September 14 this year in Havre de Grace, MD. The HAWKS are a great bunch of guys and put on a host of very entertaining and visually impressive games at the HMGS conventions each year. This years games run the gamut from ancients to sci-fi and include a number of kid friendly games.
IABSM – Blenneville or Bust: West of Pierrecourt
We recently decided that a campaign would be fun, so I picked up the Blenneville or Bust campaign from Two Fat Lardies written by Robert Avery. This is a fictional campaign set in a valley in Normandy immediately following the landings. The first game of the campaign involves an American reconnaissance effort.
Spoiler Alert – If you are planning to play the campaign and want to have limited intel, read on at your own risk. Read More…
Saga – The Escort
This Saga game took place a while ago (well before the IABSM game in the last post) so I’m not going to try and dredge up the particulars from my addled brain, but I’ll hit the high points. For this one, we broke out the newly painted pigs, carts, and ponies and played The Escort, one of the scenarios in the Saga rulebook, with the Irish warlords serving to help the local monastery bring in supplies provided by their flock in the countryside. On the other side, a band of Vikings looks to score some quick loot and maybe knock a priest or two on the head in the name of Odin.
IABSM: Action at Anzio
After a long lull, we recently got in another game of IABSM 3 using a scenario from the “Anzio, From Wildcat to Whale” book by Robert Avery. This game was set during the German counterattacks that took place once the allies had exhausted themselves trying to break the German perimeter. Apologies for the few and crappy pictures – I forgot the camera and just had my phone… plus the game was a good one and I forgot to take many pictures.
The Saga of Ceallach ui Móráin – Battle of the Three Crossings
A couple of buddies came over to my place for a game of Saga recently. After a short learning game in which Brett learned the dangers of leaving your warlord alone in a field with no lifeguard around him, we set up for the main event using the Battle at the Ford scenario from the Saga rulebook.
Bathtub Primosole Bridge
The arrival of spring break allowed me a little time to organize some much needed relaxation, so I put together another scenario for I Ain’t Been Shot Mum (v3). This one was a bathtub version of some of the fighting around the Primosole Bridge during the invasion of Sicily.
Straight from the Painting Desk
Test model for 3mm Caunter camo pattern
Repple Depple 
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