Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group

Movies: Age of Imperialism 1800AD –1914AD

    Crimean War 1853-56 Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) (Peter Merritt) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027438/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2 A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.   American Civil War 1861-1865 Glory (1989) (Deborah Southwell) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097441/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 Col. Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War’s first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices […]

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American Civil War Megagame [offside]

This session was hosted by a contingent of our friends from Europe (while we have any left) at the 2018 CLWG Conference. They had already run a game based on the ‘Seven Days Battles’ on the Virginian Peninsular in 1862. [Campaign note – The enormous Union Army of the Potomac had been rebuilt and (re?)trained […]

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