Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group
Offside report on James Halstead’s game by Jim Wallman James brought his slightly delayed game about a number of polities seeking to collaborate on purchasing key military equipment. The players represented five different polities in a science fiction setting. The science fiction background was to distance the gameplay from the complexities that might arise if […]
I thought an aerial game was quite a challenge for a hybrid game and was amazed that it worked pretty well. As both Deborah (Queen of the Skies) and others both managed to down the RAF clearly I found it more difficult than most; mine successful shot at the end was the only one I […]
Onside report by Jim Wallman Having found my box of 1970s period aircraft I wanted to do another run of my Airwars game, designed for 1970s air combat (originally for Vietnam and Aira-Israeli wars). Inspired by Evan’s Triplanes & pterodactyls game, I thought I’d do a variant of that idea set in the later period. […]
At the October meeting I confidently asserted that Denis Showalter’s Tannenberg: Clash of Empires was the Best Battle History Ever Written. I was, of course, challenged to defend this in a review. Having written the following review I am, if it is possible, even more sure that it is the Best Battle History Ever Written […]
Onside report by Jim Wallman A few months ago I ran my First World War command post game at CLWG in hybrid format, with higher commanders on line and more junior commanders in the room, along with a hidden map run by map controls in a different part of the hall. The purpose of this […]
(I’m getting my article in quick this year!) Some thoughts about running such games based on not a lot of actual experience in most cases. I’m not sure I can define a difference between online and remote games as my experience is with games having a physical set up and one or more participants taking […]
As well as being the 50th year of CLWG existing, it is also the tenth year that MilMud has existed in the form of a wordpress blog. As with other aspect of the club there’s been a little less posted or viewed in the last twelve months. Milmud Stats for 2023-24 Only ten members posted […]
Thanks to Jim’s generous work with the tech set up, I was able to attend the whole weekend, and enjoyed it immensely. We went from stimulating design discussions from Dave on pre WW2 China and Japan to James’s very amusing thoughts on how you might game Fuller’s crazy and gas dominated visions of warfare in […]
Onside report by Jim Meeting 4 October 2024 I recently came across a range of lego-adjacent models called Brickskrieg. These are self-assmbled military miniatures, roughly the same scale as 15mm. As a long time fan of lego this was instantly attractive and I bought three Panzer IVs and three Cromwells ‘just because’. Having got them […]
Offside report by Jim Meeting 4 October 2024 Andrew brought some of his collection of medieval toy soldier to allow us to try out the commercial set of rules ‘Never Mind The Billhooks’ (NMTB) by Andy Callan. https://www.nevermindthebillhooks.com/ The scenario was simple, a Lancastrian (yay!) army faced off against a Yorkist horde (boo!) and with […]