Adventures in Wargaming
Part 3 of Weekend Warfare steps away from the adventures of CGS (don't worry, more reports are coming soon following those lunatics). Instead we look at a side story, based on events that took place in Bazistan before Commando Global Solutions arrived. These stories are based off Intel requested by officers in the company Argo … Continue reading Weekend Warfare 3 – INTEL01 “Thieves in the Night”
Part two of my attempt to play more wargames returns us to Skirmish Sangin, with a few new house rules this time. While the last mission was all out action against an inferior foe, this one sees a small team attempting to recon a warehouse currently being used as a base for a shifty corporation … Continue reading Weekend Warfare 2 – CGS S01E02
So since last time, I've done a few things to get ready for building the demo board I have planned out. Emails have been sent out to get the ball rolling on actually booking space to run the game at two shows. It might be a little early for some but better early than late. Continued … Continue reading Operation Dragon’s Hoard: Part 2 – Further Planning and Physical Things
Scenario 12 of the Bazistan Crisis - An RAF F35 Lightning II enforcing the no-fly zone has suffered an engine failure and has crashed somewhere in the rebel held zone. Unable to deploy conventional CSAR assets, British command has ordered an SAS team already in country to find and extract the downed pilot. Upon arriving in … Continue reading Battle Report: Skirmish Sangin 09/02/2017
Intro With the recent release of Spectre's comprehensive range of Technicals and weapon systems, it's never been a better time to be a militia warlord on the tabletop. This primer is designed to fill you in on these increasingly common vehicles and their role on the tabletop. I'll cover some tactics for using them, some … Continue reading Technical Notes: A Primer
The last few reports I wrote were done in a narrative fashion. I'm not abandoning that format, but as this is a special game I'm going back to a more descriptive style. Rather than using a pre-made scenario, I instead decided to spring on them a brand new, beta version of a scenario I had … Continue reading Testing Report: Skirmish Sangin 08/09/2016
Seeing as people liked the last game, here is the followup. I'm forming a rough campaign taking the results of the last game and bringing it forward. I played this at SESWC using a tweaked version of the Compound 17 scenario from the rulebook. 48 hours earlier... "Round of applause for Team 2 everyone" joked the … Continue reading Battle Report: Skirmish Sangin 21/07/2016
I showed a few of these figures off in my last painting bench post but I now have a few more done, about half way through them all. Its slow going as I'm approaching each figure individually while still using a similar colour palette to make them fit together aesthetically. Exception being one of the footballers in … Continue reading Afghan Civilians
Skirmish Sangin is all about the narrative and so I want to try writing some narrative reports for it. This is from a game I played at SESWC using the trusty Route Clearance scenario, although replacing the SEALs with SAS troopers thanks to Empress's new releases. EDIT: Pictures at the bottom of the article. Night, and the lights … Continue reading Battle Report: Skirmish Sangin: 21/06/2016
This is a repost of an AAR I did on the now defunct Skirmish Sangin forum. It was one of the first Skirmish Sangin games I played and I want to preserve it. ISAF:Elite NCO with Assault RifleVeteran with Assault Rifle, UGL and shotgunAverage with GPMGAverage with SAW Veteran Corporal with Assault RifleVeteran with Assault … Continue reading AAR: Street Fight
Sadly, I didn't take many pictures because we were too busy playing (and covering the table with paper) but I played my first game of Skirmish Sangin with one of the Brighton Warlords guys. Tonight's game saw the my British go up against his group of insurgents. Because of the models we had, we decided to play … Continue reading Skirmish Sangin: Downtown Ambush