Tag: Two Hour Wargames
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WHAT 1st Encounter – Part 2, The Party
With Warrior Heroes Adventures in Talomir (WHAT), I have a new game, a new campaign, a new encounter – all begging for new miniatures. These figures are all 3D Printed from BrushFu Studios. I don’t own a 3D printer, so I purchase figures from boutique 3D printing service companies found on Etsy, eBay and other…
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The Meat Grinder, Part 6 – The Rzhev-Viaz’ma Offensive Begins
The crowd “oohed and ahhed” and small children cried when they fired a small howitzer at the end of the speeches. Roza looked at her fellow veterans, they all smiled and shook their heads. Firing a single howitzer was like firing a toy gun compared to the horrors of a real barrage. Roza vividly remembered…
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The Meat Grinder, Part 5
Each of the speakers made mention of the “brave” women who fought alongside the men. They had to say something thought Roza Yedilova, they needed women to vote to legitimize the elections they had bought. “Fighting alongside the men? That was nonsense in the early days, the officers didn’t know what to do with women…
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The Meat Grinder, Part 4 – Roll Call
The wind played cheerfully with wisps of white hair atop heads with solemn faces. A small group of elderly men and women wearing medals sat apart from the crowds listening as politicians droned. Roza Yedilova grumbled to herself about the weather, she was cold even though the younger folk were wearing t-shirts and shorts. Her…
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The Meat Grinder – Part 3
“Q & E Campaigning” Gaming campaigns have appeared in Two Hour Wargames for some time, but I never played any of them until the Q&E Campaigning system in Fortunes Won and Lost, a rule set now sold by Rebel Minis. This system uses a minimum amount of bookkeeping and its best features are a morale…
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The Meat Grinder – Part 2
Where to Start As with all immersion games and role playing games, you begin with your character. Now, being of the gentler sex (ha!), to realistically play a woman in a combat role during WWII, my choices are to play a partisan or resistance fighter in an occupied area, or a soldier of the Soviet…
