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August has passed us by, and our biggest collective effort as a club has been successfully completed. Games Day ’23 was a great day, and we’ll wax more on that below, but I want to express my appreciation to everyone in the club who helped with the organisation, put on a game, or just turned…
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Medieval May May is themed this year: Ancients and Medieval May. We strongly encourage members to pull out their sword and spear armies that may have been gathering dust and get them onto the tabletop. Whether it’s SAGA, Billhooks, Hail Caesar, or Art d’la Guerre (ADLG), it doesn’t matter. For people who don’t have anything…
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Last Saturday, we here at NWA in Melbourne had a visit from Mal Wright of Adelaide, who brought with him a demo of his forthcoming module in his WW2 convoy series which deals with Japanese convoys in the Pacific. This is an add-on to a system he has already had published. Mal is a prolific rules…
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With two opposing fleets assembling amongst the Pacific islands, both sides were probing for weaknesses. Neither fleet was yet ready to take on the other, but they were keen to gain moral advantage before the oncoming battle. Two cruiser forces were on intersecting courses. A British cruiser force was heading east, patrolling a line past which…
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1944. The Allies are continuing to push back the Japanese forces. But the Japanese Navy is doing all it can to stem the tide. Amongst the atolls of the Pacific Ocean, an small flotilla of Japanese ships is aggressively patrolling in defense of the likely island targets for the next Allied invasion. A group of British ships are…
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Another popular battle which is useful for comparing some of the available World War 2 naval rules is the Battle of the River Plate. The rule set to be used this time is General Quarters 3 – known as GQ3 for short. The battle occurred in December 1939, early in the second world war. The German heavy cruiser…
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In testing various World War 2 naval rules we had found that “GHQ WW2 Micronauts”, “General Quarters 3” and “Naval Thunder” all handled ship-to-ship combat well. There are distinct differences in the way they handle gunnery and damage, but each works okay in their own way. Each of us had slight preferences, but this did not clearly…
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In 1941 Great Britain was relying on convoys to provide much needed resources. During May the German battleship Bismarck accompanied by the battlecruiser Prinz Eugen formed operation Rheinübung. Led by Admiral Lütjens, this was a sortie to sink as many Atlantic convoys as possible. Regarded by many as the most powerful battleship in the world,…
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Following the fun they had with The Battle of Denmark Strait, where the outcome was virtually identical to history, the two Johns decided to have a rematch. This was to see whether the ‘WWII Micronauts: The Game’ rules by GHQ could give a different outcome. The scenario was the attempt of the KGM Bismarck and…
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Historical wargaming covers a fascinating spectrum of eras, fighting styles and tactics. The aim is to make history come to life. Starting with ancient history all the way up to modern times, there is plenty to enthuse anyone with even a passing interest in history. The ancient period includes chariot warfare of the Assyrians, Hittites…
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Iron Duke is a Napoleonic simulation where the heavy number crunching is done by a computer and the wargamers are left to concentrate on tactics. This allows the program to have more details built-in than is possible with in a printed rule set, and yet simplifying the task of the player. It also allows more “fog…
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It was on a cool September morning in 1943, that the Allies began the riskiest amphibious operation of the entire Second World War. The landing craft approached a little known sea town south of Naples called Salerno. Read about the recreation of the Salerno landings which the World War 2 group put on for Games…
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