A Few Loose Ends…

Just a quick note to say that I’ve now (rather belatedly) updated the scenario for “Breaking the D-Q Line” which we played at Bovington 2012.  I’ve added the German and British briefings, orders of battle, card information and special rules for those of you who would like to know all the secrets of the game!  The full scenario is available as a download from Google Docs on the on the right hand side of this blog under the heading  “Playtesting Scenarios, Campaign Diaries and Play-Aids”.

I’ve also up-loaded a pdf of my homemade card decks for “Through the Mud and the Blood” onto the blog.  I’m not sure how much use they will be to people.  The Big Men in the cards are all quite specific to the characters who have appeared in our games.  However, I know I very much enjoy looking through things like this when they get posted by other folk.  They were fun to prepare and pretty easy to produce.

So in the spirit of sharing, you can find mine in the section headed “Playtesting Scenarios, Campaign Diaries and Play-Aids”, again to be found on the right hand side of the blog.  The PDF file for the cards is quite large (they’re in colour), but if you keep clicking “download” in Google docs, you can hopefully get access.  Please let me know if there’s any difficulties accessing them.

Bovington 2012 - 7th and 8th July 2012

I’m making the trip down to the Tank Museum in Bovington this weekend for the Battlegroup South show with TooFatLardies.  We’re putting on another of our participation games, this one being a game of “Through the Mud and the Blood” game set in 1918.

The Bovington show is a two day show, which should give us plenty of time to recreate the fighting along the Drocourt-Quéant Line in early September 1918, and in particular the attack by the British 4^th Infantry Division on the German fortified village of Etaing.  This was a far more mobile stage of the War than then the battles of the Somme and Passchendaele.  However, the British Army’s ability to mould an effective “combined arms” force and its determination to “get the job done” in finishing the war was finely balanced against a German defence which utilised effective modern weaponry in  well-sited defensive positions.