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Battle of Trenton (26.12.1776): Christmas game 2024
Our club Christmas game on 29 December was from the American War of Independence. A garrison of Hessian mercenaries tried to withstand...

Piotr Stolarski
Jan 16 min read
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Monmouth Courthouse (1778): the afternoon action...
Patrick staged his first AWI game at the War Room last Sunday, with a refight of the main action at the Battle of Monmouth (1778) -...

Piotr Stolarski
Oct 2, 20244 min read
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Holowczyn (1708): Swedes vs. Russians in Poland-Lithuania
Swedish King Charles XII and Tsar Peter the Great had been slugging it out for seven years already on the battleground of the...

Piotr Stolarski
Jul 20, 20243 min read
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18th Century in Triplicate!
I put on three 18th century games at the club on Friday 24 May, each with two players, using my 2mm figures and new, ironically named,...

Piotr Stolarski
May 25, 20242 min read
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Monmouth Courthouse (1778)... the morning action
Patrick staged his third AWI wargame at the community centre last night, using his smashing 28mm figures and British Grenadier rules. A...

Piotr Stolarski
May 11, 20244 min read
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Colonial Plunder: French & Indian War Supply Raid
Last night's club game pitted a French raiding party consisting of native American Indians and French Marines (Chris, Jonathan, Phil)...

Piotr Stolarski
Mar 9, 20243 min read
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Battle of Lesnaya (1708): 15mm Great Northern War
I put on my second Great Northern War game at the club on Friday using my tweaked Warmonger rules and 15mm figures. The battle in...

Piotr Stolarski
Aug 19, 20233 min read
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Warmonger: Battle of Fraustadt (1706)
The Great Northern War (1700-1721) is a new period for the club. Using my 15mm figures and new Warmonger rules, I put on a refight of the...

Piotr Stolarski
Mar 4, 20233 min read
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Bunker Hill 17th June 1775 & the assault on Dorchester Heights - Part 1
We had a fantastic weekend of wargaming in the West Country refighting The Battle of Bunker Hill and the assault on Dorchester Heights....
Rob Wingrave
Oct 10, 20212 min read
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Bunker Hill 17th June 1775 & the assault on Dorchester Heights - Part 2
On the Sunday after a lot of work by Philip, our host ,converted the Bunker Hill battle into the assault on Dorchester Heights. The US...
Rob Wingrave
Oct 10, 20211 min read
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AWI - Battle of Freeman Farm 19th September 1777.
We recently played an AWI game using British Grenadier rules to see how they worked and whether they could be used for a much bigger game...
Rob Wingrave
Aug 10, 20211 min read
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A.W.I. at Rob's War Room - 24-25 January 2020
Saturday 25 January 2020 saw a large American War of Independence battle umpired by Noel at Rob’s War Room. The previous night, eight...

Piotr Stolarski
Jan 26, 20207 min read
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Honours of War Rules Part 1
Recently, I hosted a test game of Osprey's Honours of War rules. This has been designed for Seven Years War with rules emphasising fast...
Tim Wilson
Jan 31, 20182 min read
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Marlburian Battle
On 21.1.18 Rob Hosted a Marlburian Battle at his War Room. Noel provided the figures and rules and acted as Umpire The French were...
Jonathan Hobbs
Jan 30, 20183 min read
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