By Fire and Sword: Two training battles with my Swedes

Last Saturday, Max and I met up for a few games of ‘By Fire and Sword’.In the first game, my Swedes faced his Imperials and then Max's Ottomans; both games ended in a crushing defeat for me.Nevertheless, we had a lot of fun as usual, the rules are quick to play and easy to get the hang of and we'll...

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Chain of Command AAR: Clash of Patrols at Ponte Olivo

Saturday was our monthly CoC game, this time as an introductory game for Stefan, a CoC newcomer.Max took over a Platoon Bersaglieri, Stefan led my US Parachute Infantry into battle and I took on the role of game master and was on hand to answer Stefan's questions about rules and tactics.First of all:...

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Italian Bersaglieri Platoons: CoC Army Lists for the operations in the Mediterranean 1942-1943

I must confess that the research on the Bersaglieri was the most exhausting and contradictory so far for our CoC army lists.So many reorganisations, some of which were only ordered but never implemented, requests for changes from the divisions based on their combat experience, which were usually, but...

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