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Ultramodern Wargaming – Ukraine 2024
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About the Project
Lately, I've been running war games every weekend with members of the community via web conference. Players log on and play wargames with each other in real time, regardless of location, and we usually have at least a couple spectators as well. Many times it’s been Darkstar, but we’re also running wargames in Panzer Leader, Arab-Israeli Wars, and now Valor & Victory.
BoW/OTT community members @brucelea, @damon, @davehawes, and @rasmus have taken the plunge, leading battalions across thousands of meters of desert, starfleets in pitched battles across the heavens, or vicious firefights in the jungles of Vietnam, all without leaving the comfort of their home.
Hard-core, old-school command-tactical wargames can now be run (complete with spectators and recordings) in real time, with BOTH PLAYERS moving pieces across THE SAME virtual game board, thus maintaining player agency, speedy and instant results (no play by e-mail), interwoven turn sequences, any questions / feedback instantly received and addressed, and with the game being virtually recorded as it goes, a ready-made battle report can actually be created as we go.
All of this without the players having to install any new software on their computer, on any platform (PC or Mac). All that's needed is to agree on a time, a handful of dice, and a bellyful of courage!
Every weekend can now be a boot camp! All without costing me thousands of dollars in airfare, too!
Related Game: PanzerBlitz
Related Genre: Historical
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Christmas Carnage VIII – Mechanized Assault on the North Pole (Part 2)
The exciting conclusion!
Christmas Carnage VIII – Mechanized Assault on the North Pole (Part 1)
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to one and all! To mark the festive season, we once again present our annual Christmas-themed miniature wargame, where a dastardly army marshals its forces for an assault on Santa’s North Pole Village and winter workshop.
Fortunately, Santa has been forewarned of the threat, and has mobilized the brave heroes of the North Pole Defense Force. Its up to these valiant champions to save Christmas and the spirit of holiday cheer from these ultimate “naughty list” villains.
This is the eighth time Santa and his friends have been put to the test. Can the holiday yet again be saved? Find out!
Christmas Carnage VIII
News flash everyone! Santa’s North Pole Workshop and Winter Village is once again threatened by attack by a villainous miniature army determined to ruin Christmas!
That’s right, for the eigth year running we’re again presenting the annual wargame tradition, where Santa’s “North Pole Defense Force” must stand tall and save Christmas and the spirit of good holiday cheer!
Stay tuned for videos Wednesday and Sunday to see how the engagement turns out!
Oriskany v. Bill - Battle of the Bulge Gameplay Video
Hello everyone. Here is the video playback from Sunday’s stream, where Bill and I sat down for a game of Panzer Leader, recreating the Battle of Celles (25 December, 1944).
Part of the Battle of the Bulge, we recreate 2nd US Armored Division’s “CCB” hitting the right wing of the spearhead of 2nd Panzer Division (XLVII Panzer Corps, 5th Panzer Army) at the very apex of the German advance in the Ardennes Offensive.
Battle of the Bulge - Panzer Leader Meeting Engagement – Christmas 1944
Join Oriskany Jim and Bill (Sitrep 6) for a rare look of two armored spearheads hitting each other in simultaneous advances. The example we’re looking at is the counterattack of 2nd US Armored Division against faltering forward elements of 2nd Panzer Division near Celles, Belgium in December 1944, recreated (in part) in Avalon Hill’s Panzer Leader.
This was the very apex of the German advance during the infamous “Battle of the Bulge” – widely regarded as the largest single engagement in the history of the United States Army.
Live Stream – 2:00PM East US / 7:00PM UK
Sitrep Podcast YouTube
The overall map (low res) of today's game.
American forces (platoon / battery based) - includes leading element of Combat Command "B" (66th Armored Regiment, 41st Armored Infantry Regiment, plus artillery, engineer, and TD support units)
German forces, including 3. Pz Rgt, 304. PzGr Rgt, 74. PzArt Rgt, 38. PzJg Abtg, 2. PzAufk Abtg (all part of 2nd Panzer Division, XLVII Pz Corps, 5th Panzer Army).
A little background and context.
Some of the German set upVideo Replay - Salvaging M48A5 "Magach 3" tanks
Here is the video replay of Sunday’s stream, where we talk about Israeli Magach battletanks, discuss how to fix bad miniatures, homecraft some replacement parts, and talk about our favoriite 1960s-80s armor. Hope you like it!
"Miniature Rescue" Live Stream
Greetings, everyone! Join us as Oriskany Jim sits down to chip away at his ongoing IDF expansion project, trying to make the most out of some M48A5 “Magach 3” battle tanks used by the Israelis during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Live Stream – 2:00PM East US / 7:00PM UK
Sitrep Podcast YouTube
Battleship Showdown - "Naval War" System - Live Game
Oriskany Jim and Mark Ritchie sit down for a game of H. J. Seimonsgergen’s “Naval War” – depicting part of the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on the night of 14-15 November, 1942.
Although the Pacific War is typically dominated by aircraft carriers and submarines, heavy cruisers and battleships could still play a key role not only in escort, AA defense, and shore bombardment, but also old-school gunnery duels. These almost always took place at night, when aircraft operations were limited. Through late 1942 and early 43, the US and Japanese navies fought a bitter, non-stop series of naval engagements in the Solomon Islands, many of them surface engagements at night.
One of the largest of these was the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, where Japanese battleships like the Kirishima tangled with American battlewagons like and USS Washington and South Dakota – a heavyweight slugging match for the ages.
Live Stream – 2:00PM East US / 7:00PM UK
Sitrep Podcast YouTube
Here is the map for today's game. ? Close and personal, only 20 miles across (each "gameboard inch" grid is about 1/4 of a mile or approx 400 meters). The game starts with 2nd Naval Battle of Guadalcanal already in progress - historically it unfolded in three general stages and we're starting at stage 3 to keep the game a little more manageable. 
Ships, clearly, are NOT to scale with the map. Blue dot shows their true location. They are in scale with each other, though.
Historical progress of the fight. The red rectangle is the area of our map.
A little background and the major players.
Now the designer has dispensed with "Command Station" sheets in v1.5, opting for a more expansive and flexible card system. But that's tough to stream. So I rebuilt a custom version of the command station dashboard, using rules on the cards. Orange commands are specific to the Imperial Japanese Navy.
The American command station dashboard.
