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  • 13/02/2019 at 06:32 #109016
    Avatar photoAbwehrschlacht
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    We broke out Trench Hammer again on Sunday to play a German trench raid to capture British prisoners. The full AAR is on my blog with plenty of pictures! Check it out here:

    https://www.stormofsteelwargaming.com/2019/02/burn-baby-burn.html

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    13/02/2019 at 13:57 #109042
    Avatar photoRetroboom
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    Amazing set up! Looking forward to your experiment with the Mud and Blood cards.

    Richmond, VA. Let's play!

    13/02/2019 at 15:01 #109044
    Avatar photoAbwehrschlacht
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    Cheers buddy, I am looking forward to it too! I think the non-linear approach from Mud and Blood will work well with skirmish level such as this. IGOUGO is fie when dealing with larger formation type games, but when each figure is supposed to be a single man, it needs to be a bit less conventional!

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    13/02/2019 at 18:33 #109057
    Avatar photokyoteblue
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    Thanks for posting!!

    13/02/2019 at 19:05 #109059
    Avatar photoAbwehrschlacht
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    No problem KB, I hope you enjoyed the write up!

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    14/02/2019 at 14:46 #109118
    Avatar photoIvan Sorensen
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    Very nicely played and your table certainly kill the idea that WW1 games “look boring” as some people have opined around the internet 🙂

    As I think I posted on the blog, looking forward to seeing what you do with cards.

    14/02/2019 at 14:55 #109119
    Avatar photoAbwehrschlacht
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    Cheers Ivan. There really is a stance against the First World War from wargamers, isn’t there? I blame the 1960s historians and the poets…

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    14/02/2019 at 14:58 #109120
    Avatar photoIvan Sorensen
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    I’ve even seen designers opine that you can only game the first couple months and the last.
    Meanwhile, nobody doubts for a moment that you can game Pickett’s charge or the cavalry attack at Waterloo.

    I wonder if the hundred year anniversary and stuff like the Great War youtube channel will lure more people in, though.

    14/02/2019 at 15:02 #109122
    Avatar photoAbwehrschlacht
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    There are very few that do attempt to change the flow of the river, yourself and the Lardies spring to mind immediately.

    The 100th anniversary has been even worse if anything, cementing old myths and inventing new ones. Very little revisionist history made it into the public sphere from my POV.

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    14/02/2019 at 15:06 #109123
    Avatar photoIvan Sorensen
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    Who did the “Contemptible little armies” game? I really liked that one as well.
    Though it seems to have fallen out of gamers consciousness.

    My love for the setting comes from one simple source: Reading “All quiet…” when I was a kid. It was etched into my memory and I’ve been fascinated by the conflict ever since.

    14/02/2019 at 15:13 #109124
    Avatar photoAbwehrschlacht
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    I am not sure, I know the name, but have never played it. I have been surprised of the lack of FWW games at the conventions I have attended over the last four/five years. Very few have featured a timely game. We have played Square bashing at pivotal moments throughout the centenary, though, just to readdress the balance.

    I was always more interested in the Second World War, until I went for a weekend trip out to Belgium and then managed to get on an excavation at Auchonvilliers on the Somme back in 2003. Hooked ever since…

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    14/02/2019 at 15:18 #109125
    Avatar photoIvan Sorensen
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    Yeah, Square Bashing is another good one. And…that about rounds out the representation I think. Good on you to fly the flag.
    There was Over the Top but that’s been way out of print.

    I play more WW2, just because people like tanks and it tends to skirmish better, but yeah, WW1 is the true love.
    In fact, the first thing I ever wrote for money was a WW1 game (Trench Storm).

    14/02/2019 at 15:22 #109126
    Avatar photoAbwehrschlacht
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    We always get an enjoyable game out of SB, it never disappoints. We haven’t had a game of WW2 for a while, the last was Rommel, last year some time. My mate has been doing the desert campaign in Rapid Fire, but we have drifted away from it in recent years and I was running the Malaya Campaign, but again, it’s been yonks since we gamed either. Must get back on it!

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    14/02/2019 at 15:24 #109127
    Avatar photoIvan Sorensen
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    Since I’ve had to downsize a bit, I asked the kid what he’d like to game and he said “Tanks!” so I’m toying with doing 6mm for either North Africa or Eastern Front.

    14/02/2019 at 15:32 #109128
    Avatar photoAbwehrschlacht
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    LOL, he has his head screwed on right! We play Rommel in 3mm, that may be worth a look.

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    14/02/2019 at 15:35 #109129
    Avatar photoIvan Sorensen
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    I’ve kicked around 3mm. THe Picoarmor stuff looks fantastic, but I’ve wanted to get back into 6mm ever since playing Epic/Space Marine for scifi.

    14/02/2019 at 15:36 #109130
    Avatar photoAbwehrschlacht
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    Epic was always my favourite of the GW output, that’s probably cos I like the operational level of gaming.

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