Miniature Wargames

RECON 2016 Photos – Friday

Photos from the HMGS-South convention in Orlando Florida.

Age of Iron 1/600 ACW Naval

Jutland 1916 – The Vans Collide, Seekrieg 5

Bladensburg 1814, All the Kings Men 54mm

Scavenger 28mm Zombies, using Stalingrad table

Jutland 1916 – The Vans Collide, Seekrieg 5

Jutland 1906 Seekrieg 5

Hammerin’ Iron 1/600 ACW Naval

With Lawrence at Shahm, 28mm The Sword and the Flame WWI

Radar Picket Station #1, Okinawa 1945. 1/300 Blue Sky

It Came Form Beyond The Still, 28mm SciFi

Swatting DoodleBugs, 1/300 Blue Sky

RECON 2016 Photos – Thursday

Photos from the HMGS-South convention in Orlando Florida.

54mm All the Kings Men

Operation Hannibal, 15mm Axis and Allies

The Sword in Africa

28mm WWII

Bolt Action AAR – Normandy 8 June 1944

This weekend the local HMGS-South group played a Bolt Action game.

The U.S. 116th Regimental Combat Team (RCT) is pushing west along the coast after breaking out of the Omaha beachhead. The 116th RCT commander has ordered B Company to take the German coastal artillery position outside the village of Maisy. The German artillery is shelling Allied shipping off of Utah beach and has thus far proven impossible for Allied aircraft and naval guns to destroy.

The German positions are defended by elements of the 914th Grenadier Regiment and the remains of several Ost companies.

US forces enter at the bottom with the objective of clearing the crossroads area of enemy troops. The minefield must also be cleared.

A lucky hit takes out the MG in the bunker, but it is replaced by a full squad of German infantry.

Mortar fire convinces German troops to shift positions in the ruins. US infantry advance on both flanks.

US infantry take loses on both flanks but keep advancing. The TD advances to within point blank range of the bunker. The Ost squad is eliminated, having fought far better than expected.

US infantry occupies some of the ruins on the right. The German squad leaves the bunker to destroy the TD by close assault.

At the end of the game (eight or nine turns) the crossroads was mostly clear of German troops, but a German half-track remained and the minefield had not been cleared.

Additional photos by another club member:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/130153196@N08/albums/72157666994060225/with/26282212591/

WW1 Naval – 1/6000 Scale Japanese Ships

WWI Japanses ships by Figurehead miniatures.

Pre-Dreadnoughts and cruisers.

Dreadnoughts. The names for the ‘No13’ class were taken from battleships at Tsushima.

Rhodes, 305 BC

Saturday the local HMGS-South group played a game of Hail, Agrippa!. The Hail, Agrippa! rules are a modification of Hail Caesar published in Issue 66 of ‘Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy’ magazine. [Hail Agrippa! rules link]

The scenario was a hypothetical battle set during the siege of Rhodes by Demetrius son of Antigonus. Ptolemy has sent a fleet to lift the siege. It is met by the Antigonid fleet in the narrows between Evlimnia (Alimia) island and the mainland of Rhodes.

View from the island of Rhodes toward Makry (Makri) island with Evlimnia (Alimia) and Chalki in the distance.

Good command rolls allow the Antigonid divisions to race forward to support their isolated ships near Evlimnia.

One Antigonid division continues to advance while another balks. Blunders in the Ptolemaic center delay the advance.

Casualties accumulate for both sides in the center. The Ptolemaic division near Makry blunders several times and never gets into action.

The flank attack by the Antigonid heavy ships from Evlimnia finally goes in, but does little damage initially.

The flank attack becomes effective, but losses are still about even.

We quit at this point due to the time. With the battle a draw, the siege of Rhodes can continue.