Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group
Onside report by Jim Wallman This was the most recent iteration in the Akiyoshi Monogatari (Tales of the Akiyoshi Clan) series of games using the Kozeria Japanese skirmish wargame rules (August 2026). The scenario was described as follows: “The Akiyoshi have endured insult, ambush, theft, cowardice and treachery for long enough. The enemy Lord Minatoro […]
Onside by Jim Wallman Nuclear Victory was prompted by the thought: What if a country really was “Bombed Into The Stone Age”? This led to the premise: Freedonia has won a nuclear war decisively, but the consequences of victory are only beginning. Silvania’s central command has collapsed, organised resistance has effectively ceased, and the immediate […]
Onside by Jim Wallman Gather Round Me Hearties came about because I offered to create a pirate-themed party game for someone’s birthday. The players would be a mixture of gamer and non-gamers, and it therefore needed to be a fast-moving social game The main aim for players is to “survive and live free” while trying […]
Recently I have been working on several game ideas based on my interest in The Wars of the Roses. It has something to do with being semi-retired. Why a boardgame? My game is a prototype for a boardgame about The Wars of the Roses. And at this point should mention Kingmaker, both the 1974 and […]
The game is based on the plot of the Neville Brothers against king Edward IV who has fallen under the spell of the Woodville family, rather than the most powerful brother: the Earl of Warwick (aka the Kingmaker). While Warwick thought he had Edward under his control after bringing him the crown in 1461, the […]
At university I wrote an essay about the Silver Bullion crisis in 17th Century Spain. As I did my research I kept on finding yet another fact or event that intrigued me. So I started going back through my “set” books to yet another earlier chapter. Eventually I found myself reading about Ferdinand and Isabella […]
In Scotland the people that run megagames are very fond of lunch breaks, and I thought that I could lean into this and do a two part megagame that reprises two games I’ve previously run at CLWG with a bit of simplification to help them scale up. Bonnie Dundee was run as the highland campaigns […]
As part of a few days in Tours, I not only visited the Musée des Blindés in Saumur (well worth a visit; like in the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace in Le Bourget, all the weird things the French ever built are well represented), but I also managed to catch the first half of […]
I’ve been megagaming now for nearly nine years and a wargamer in some form or another for over 25, since I participated in a Warhammer club at school, where I played Space Marines. I have recently started to develop a megagame of my own that I plan to run next year (2027) and it has […]
Previously I had done a session Operation Rupert and other hidden scenarios. This session I had deliberately kept under wraps beforehand. Our pool of players is too smart and if they had read up on the true battle beforehand there would not have been much of a game to play. This battle took place in […]