Category Archives: Battlefront: WW2

“No Longer Having A Go”: The Filthy Fifth’s Darkest Day

Posted on 31st August 2024 by jemima_fawr

5th Royal Tank Regiment at La Lande, Normandy Operation BLUECOAT, 3rd August 1944 A Scenario for Battlefront: WWII As it’s the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Campaign, I thought I’d finish off a Normandy scenario that’s been sitting 75%-finished on … Continue reading →

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‘Fuller’s Stand’: ‘C’ Company, 152 (Indian) Para at Point 7378, 19th March 1944 (The Game)

Posted on 7th August 2022 by jemima_fawr

Last time I posted a scenario based on the defence of a hilltop on the Indian-Burmese border by Indian Paras during the initial stages of the Japanese advance on Imphal and Kohima.  We played the scenario at the Carmarthen Old … Continue reading →

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‘Fuller’s Stand’: ‘C’ Company, 152 (Indian) Para at Point 7378, 19th March 1944 (A Scenario For ‘Battlefront: WWII’)

Posted on 14th July 2022 by jemima_fawr

Having played almost nothing but Seven Years War and written about nothing but tricorn hat-lace in recent months, many readers of this blog will be relieved to know that we finally played something different at club last week! 🙂 I … Continue reading →

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Cold War Canucks, Eh? 4th Canadian Mechanised Brigade Group in the 1980s

Posted on 16th May 2021 by jemima_fawr

I promised a little while ago that there would be some breaks from the wall-to-wall Seven Years War coverage and that the Olive Drab would return!  So even though I’m still painting tricorns and lace, here’s a look at some … Continue reading →

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The Forgotten Wargames Army: XIVth Army in Burma (Part 8 – 254th Indian Tank Brigade on the Road to Mandalay (and Rangoon) 1944-45)

Posted on 6th October 2020 by jemima_fawr

In the Part 7 of this series I looked at the 254th Indian Tank Brigade and their decisive role in the defence of Imphal in 1944.  This time I’m following the 254th Tank Brigade as they followed the ‘Road to … Continue reading →

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The Forgotten Wargames Army: XIVth Army in Burma (Part 7 – 254th Indian Tank Brigade at Imphal 1944)

Posted on 30th September 2020 by jemima_fawr

For those who are still awake, here’s the next instalment of my series on the XIVth Army and specifically Commonwealth armoured units of the Burma Campaign.  What was originally going to be one simple article and then expanded to become … Continue reading →

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The Forgotten Wargames Army: XIVth Army in Burma (Part 6 – XV Corps Armoured Group)

Posted on 4th September 2020 by jemima_fawr

As discussed in the last part of this series of articles, I’m presently looking at the British and Indian armoured units that fought in the Burma Campaign of World War 2.  In the last article I looked at the British … Continue reading →

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The Forgotten Wargames Army: XIVth Army in Burma (Part 5 – 7th Armoured Brigade & 50th Indian Tank Brigade)

Posted on 28th August 2020 by jemima_fawr

The recent 75th anniversary of VJ Day and conversations with our friend Olivia on the Battle of Wetlet thread prompted me to re-read some history of the Burma Campaign and suitably inspired, I thought I’d add another post about the … Continue reading →

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Hobart’s ‘Funnies’ – 79th Armoured Division in Normandy

Posted on 6th June 2020 by jemima_fawr

I was half-way through writing another Napoleonic post, when it suddenly occurred to me that I really should do a WW2 post to commemorate the D-Day anniversary. So here’s a look at ‘Hobart’s Funnies’. Following the disastrous Dieppe Raid of … Continue reading →

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‘Active Edge’: Building a Cold War BAOR Battlegroup

Posted on 18th May 2020 by jemima_fawr

My good mate, lapsed wargamer and former Best Man, Gary P was recently browsing this blog.  As a long-serving senior officer of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces, a veteran of numerous wars and operations, a Staff College graduate and having undertaken … Continue reading →

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