Category Archives: Battlefront: WW2

My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 5: The Scenario)

Posted on 12th January 2020 by jemima_fawr

As discussed in the previous articles here, here and here, I decided last year to do a demo game based on the controversial 1978 Cassinga Raid, which was an early engagement in South Africa’s ‘Border War’ in Angola.  I took … Continue reading →

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My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 4): The Game!

Posted on 21st November 2019 by jemima_fawr

At long last, all that research, scenario-writing, model-making and terrain-building finally paid off last weekend as our Carringa Raid game took the prize for Best Demo Game at Warfare 2019!  As regular readers will know, I only do demo games … Continue reading →

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My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 3): Smuggy McSmugface…

Posted on 17th November 2019 by jemima_fawr

I’ll post a proper battle report up later (we actually managed to fully play the game twice, but my phone ran out of photo-storage at the end of the first day…), but the game’s first outing at Warfare 2019 in … Continue reading →

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My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 2 – the Playtest)

Posted on 5th November 2019 by jemima_fawr

As discussed last time, I’ve spent the last few months building the terrain and forces for a demo-game of the Cassinga Raid, with the intention of going around a few of the UK wargame shows, starting with Warfare in Reading, … Continue reading →

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My 2019/2020 Demo Game: The Cassinga Raid, Angola 1978 (Part 1)

Posted on 4th November 2019 by jemima_fawr

As mentioned in recent posts, I’ve spent the last few months building terrain-boards, painting troops and sticking together aeroplanes for my forthcoming demo game at Warfare 2019, which will be held on the weekend of 16th/17th November, at the Rivermead … Continue reading →

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The Great Angolan Gecko-Hunt (Operation FOX, December 1983)

Posted on 1st November 2019 by jemima_fawr

This week I actually managed to get down to club (the Carmarthen Old Guard) and get a game! 🙂 As previously mentioned, I’m going to be running a demo game of the Cassinga Raid (Angola 1978) at Warfare 2019, in … Continue reading →

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‘Going Dutch’: Building a Cold War Dutch Battlegroup (Part 3)

Posted on 29th April 2019 by jemima_fawr

Following on from my previous updates in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, I’ve recently added a few more bits and pieces to my 15mm 1980s Cold War Netherlands battlegroup for the (under-development) Battlefront: First Echelon variant of … Continue reading →

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Black Cat v White Tiger: The 1st Battle of Bishenpur (Imphal 1944)

Posted on 17th February 2019 by jemima_fawr

This game was our ‘Battlefront Big Bovvy Bash’ game at The Tank Museum, Bovington in 2011.  Most of our Bovvy games have been set firmly in the NW European Campaign, but we have gone ‘off-piste’ a couple of times – … Continue reading →

Posted in 15mm Figures, Battlefront: WW2, Bovington Show Games, Games, Scenarios, World War 2, World War 2 - Burma Campaign | 12 Comments

LANDJUT 1984: The Defence of Gnissau

Posted on 10th December 2018 by jemima_fawr

The Warsaw Pact’s Northern Front crossed the Inter-German Border two days ago, rapidly breaking through the forward units of the German Schleswig-Holstein Territorial Command, annihilating the 81st HeimatschĂĽtz Regiment and surrounding the 71st HeimatschĂĽtz Regiment in LĂĽbeck.  The Danish Jutland Dragoons … Continue reading →

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Refighting Operation ALAN: The Welsh Victory, 22-29 October 1944

Posted on 19th November 2018 by jemima_fawr

From 22-28 October 1944, the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division, with supporting elements from 7th Armoured Division, 79th Armoured Division and 33rd Armoured Brigade, won a remarkable (and now largely forgotten) victory at the Dutch city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch. The city (whose … Continue reading →

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