Battle of Trebbia
Today Diego, Marco, Marco, Riccardo, Vittorio and I played the Battle of Trebbia scenario, using the “Control to catastrophe” wargame rules by Chris Leach. The game was our first test of the rules, but...
Category: Battles
Fuentes de Onoro, the battle
The battle itself has been played using “Shadows of he Eagles”, by Keith Flint, using most of the amendments proposed by Keith and interpreted by me. Details of the scenario may be found here....
Fuentes De Onoro 1811, a la Featherstone
I have decided to pick this battle after reading the Emperor Press volume on the Peninsular War battles from D. Featherstone. His group was not able to play the battle as they wished, and...
Maida 1806
Robert and I had today a very good game playing the historical; battle of Maida. The game used the BBB ruleset, which turns out to be an excellent ruleset even of a small affair...
Big Battle of Oldendorf, 1633
We just finished playing the game on a big 12’x6′ table. The table size matched the terrain scale and all units present in the battle were represented, down to the single cavalry squadron. The...
Preparing for Oldendorf
A few pictures to the two armies just deployed on the table, ready to clash. I have put together some thoughts about the battlefield and the battle itself, with the help of Google maps...
Battle of Oldendorf
We might soon play the Battle of Oldendorf, which was fought in 1633. A Magweb article may be found here. An imperial relief force of the besieged town of Hameln (nowadays Hamelin) was countered...
The great battle of Hochkirch
This week we had a very enjoyable game, my good friends Arturo, Diego, Leonardo, Riccardo and I. We played a bathtubbed version of this iconic Seven Years War battle, a fighting retreat which the...
Neil Thomas revival with a test game
I made a quick test game using the Neil Thomas Ancient Wargame rules. Mario made me discover these rules when he gave me the Neil Thomas book as a present, it had been just...
