Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group
Two Brush Strokes ( ) Two Brush Strokes was my Megagame of the Nanking decade in China. I started the game at the end of 1928 and ran 1 hour turns representing a year of real time, so we got to 1934 in the game. The title derives from a speech by J F Kennedy: […]
Offside report by Jim Meeting 5 October 2024 Dave brought a prototype section of his upcoming ‘Two Brush Strokes’ china-themed megagame that related to the two player Japanese team. This issue for him was (If I understood it correctly) that Japanese policy in China in the late 1920 was to some degree ambivalent. Whilst there […]
Battle for Incheon: Operation Chromite (2016) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4939066/?ref_=ttls_li_tt A team of spies is sent into Incheon to gain intelligence on North Korean positions ahead of the invasion by UN forces. A Hill in Korea (1956) (Jon Casey) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049302/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 1951 During the Korean War retreat in 1951, a small British recon group is surrounded by […]
Washington Conference, 6th November 2021 – The Centenary Edition Offside report by Andy Grainger A major topic of the 1921 / 2021 Washington Conference was China. In 1911 the Imperial Chinese Government had been overthrown and replaced by a Parliamentary regime but the country is still very unstable. It is in everyone’s interest to restore […]