Ultramodern Wargaming – Ukraine 2024

Starting in the fall of 2024, Russian forces in the Luhansk and eastern Khar’kiv regions of Ukraine started pushing from their positions near Svotove toward crossings over the Oskil River. Among these crossing point targets was the the small town of Khrukyakivka. Using the Seven Days to the River Rhine system by Great Escape Games, we tried to recreate some of the action in these engagements.

We’re back to finish up our 250th Anniversary commemorative wargame for the Battle of Bunker Hill!

This week marks the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, which we’re commemorating with a wargame using my own Battlefield: Rebellion system.

Widely considered to be the first set-piece battle of the American Revolution, Bunker Hill saw each side really come to a grim measure of the other’s ability and resolve. Fighting was bloody and ferocious, and the casualties lists left no one in doubt just what kind of war this was going to be.

We’re back to finish up our 250th Anniversary wargame recreating the shoot-out at Concord, 19 April 1775.

We’re now four turns into our game, and suffice it to say history has gone of the rails in a big way!

Today we’re stepping way back into the black powder era for a look at the first day of the American Revolution – where Oriskany Jim presents a 250^th Anniversary commemorative wargame recreating the shoot-out at Concord, 19 April 1775.

Although the fateful encounter at Lexington had already happened a few hours  before, site of the famous “shot heard ‘round the world” . . . no British soldiers had actually been killed there.  Not true at Concord’s North Bridge, which is why many consider this real “point of no return” that would take Britain and her American colonies to war.

We’re back to finish up our 20mm mega-game of Iwo Jima, put on by Pete Panzeri.

Using Pete’s “Rommel Rules” convention participation-game style system, Mark, Tom, Oriskany Jim and Jim Dundorf take three full divisions of Marines against the ferocious defense of the Japanese 109^th Division.

The Marines hit the beach in this savage Pacific War battle, this time in 20mm miniature on a 16-foot mega-game table put together by Pete Panzeri.  The game takes place at Das Krieg Haus, home of the South Florida Miniature Gaming club.

Using his “Rommel Rules” convention participation-game style system, Mark, Tom, Oriskany Jim and Jim Dundorf take three full divisions of Marines against the ferocious defense of the Japanese 109^th Division.

To observe the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution’s opening day, a 20mm miniatures wargame will be held at Das Krieg Haus commemorating the Battle of Concord.

The game will recreate specifically the action at Concord Bridge, pitting the militia of Colonel James Barrett against British light infantry of Captains Laurie and Parsons, part of the garrison column out of Boston under Lt. Colonel Francis Smith.

The British have to keep disparate columns and detachments together, search Concord for rebel stores and munitions, and fend off more numerous rebel militia.

The Patriots, meanwhile, must engage and drive off the British, avoid the bayonet, and save Concord from being burned.