Tag: WWII
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Panzer!
While waiting for the Eastern Front campaign book, there’s a bit of an arms race at Floozy Manor. A few weeks ago, the Soviets got a T-60 and today, a Panzer III Ausf.G rolled off of the painting table. It’s a 3D printed resin model that’s about half the cost of a Warlord or Rubicon…
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The Meat Grinder, Part 7 – The Political Officer
To Roza Yedilova, the best part of attending veteran events were the buffet tables. Here her children, grandchildren, doctors and nurses didn’t dare tell her what she could and could not eat. At the moment, her gaze was locked on a crostini covered with an interesting blend of melted forbidden cheeses. As she reached with…
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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 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…
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The Meat Grinder – Part 1
Introduction to a New Project Most of the time I play one-off games. I have the attention span of a gnat and it is often hard to play several games linked together into a campaign. The two exceptions have been when writing the Pearl’s Plight story and when writing the 5150 No Limits: The Cool…
Atomic Floozy Adventures 