Category Archives: Battlefront: WW2

My ‘Partizan in the Cloud’: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978

Posted on 17th May 2020 by jemima_fawr

This weekend should have been spent schlepping up to Newark for my annual pilgrimage to the Partizan 2020 show, but as with so many events at the moment, Partizan has been forced to cancel.  However, they are running the show … Continue reading →

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The Royal Marines Armoured Support Group in Normandy 1944

Posted on 9th May 2020 by jemima_fawr

As it’s VE Day (or at least it was when I started writing this), I thought I’d better do a WW2 post… 🙂 The Royal Marines Armoured Support Group was a short-lived organisation created for the Normandy Landings of 1944 … Continue reading →

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Churchill Tanks in NW Europe 1944-45 (Part 2)

Posted on 23rd April 2020 by jemima_fawr

As if the lockdown weren’t already tedious enough, here I am again with the second part of my Churchill tank waffle!  And there was much rejoicing.  Yay.  If you’re still here, this time I’m looking in a bit more detail … Continue reading →

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Churchill Tanks in NW Europe 1944-45 (Part 1)

Posted on 20th April 2020 by jemima_fawr

In my (unpaid) role as historical consultant for Dave Brown Esq, I was this week discussing with him the various marks of Churchill tank used by the British 21st Army Group (i.e. NW Europe from 1944 (Normandy) to 1945 (Germany)) … Continue reading →

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The Forgotten Wargames Army: XIVth Army in Burma (Part 4 – Royal Artillery)

Posted on 1st April 2020 by jemima_fawr

Here’s the last of my Burma stuff for the time being; namely some elements of the Royal Artillery. You might be wondering why I need to have model artillery, as the artillery will ordinarily be flippin’ miles away and only … Continue reading →

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The Forgotten Wargames Army: XIVth Army in Burma (Part 3 – Indian Cavalry)

Posted on 30th March 2020 by jemima_fawr

Some more Burma stuff today, namely a reconnaissance patrol from the Indian 16th Light Cavalry Regiment.  When we did our game of the Battle of Wetlet late last year, we needed a recce group from that regiment and rather than … Continue reading →

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The Forgotten Wargames Army: XIVth Army in Burma (Part 2 – Indian Engineers & Valentine Bridgelayer)

Posted on 29th March 2020 by jemima_fawr

As discussed in Part 1, I’ve been photographing a lot of my old stuff during the recent spell of sunny weather amid Plague Lockdown.  It’s occurred to me that I’ve got nowhere near enough WW2 stuff on this blog, even … Continue reading →

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The Forgotten Wargames Army: XIVth Army in Burma (Part 1 – A Sikh Infantry Battalion)

Posted on 27th March 2020 by jemima_fawr

It’s been gloriously sunny here this week while on lock-down from the ‘Flu Manchu’, so I decided a photograph a stack of models.  At the top of the stack were some boxes of XIVth Army British and Indian troops for … Continue reading →

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Cold War Polish ATGM Teams

Posted on 23rd March 2020 by jemima_fawr

Of all the articles on this blog, my article on the mechanised infantry of the Polish People’s Army of the Cold War has the most hits by quite a wide margin (closely followed by my series on the Cold War … Continue reading →

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The Action at Wetlet, Burma 8th March 1945

Posted on 22nd February 2020 by jemima_fawr

Following my recent flurry of games using Battlefront: WWII rules (by Fire & Fury Games) to fight actions in 1980s Angola, the lads at The Carmarthen Old Guard were interested in how the rules actually work in their natural environment, … Continue reading →

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