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CLWG Design Conference 2009 Reports
Onside Report - WW2 Mechanisms I lead a discussion on whether an operational research article could be used to produce some mechanisms for running a WW2 wargame with resolution ( smallest unit represented) at somewhere between platoon and battalion. The article1 in question was first published back in 1987, so quite venerable. I came across a photocopy of it tucked into an old copy of British Army Training News from the saem time period. I have subsequently found PDFs of a slightly different version of it, along with a follow-up article looking at urban combat. Offside Report - Come One Come Eorl Andrew Hadley brought back the Scottish component of this game for another try having modified some of the mechanisms from the previous playtest. We didn't really play the game as we spent a lot of time talking about…
St.Valery: The Impossible Odds by Bill Innes
This is a collection of first hand accounts, mainly posthumously published from three men who were ordinary soldiers in the 51st Highland Division in 1940. None of them were officers (although one was commissioned after his escape and return home). The main part of the book is a personal account originally published in Gaelic and subsequently translated into english as "A Cameron Never Can Yield". This forms just over half the book and tells the story from the start of the German attack on 10 May 1940 through surrender at St Valery on 12th June 1940, escape on the march into Germany and then life in Marseilles in the winter of 1940-41 followed by a winter crossing of the Pyrenees and time spent in Spanish prison camps before returning to the UK. The other two stories are relatively similar, although…
Battle of the Hills, 21 January 1943
Image via Wikipedia This is a short article about the advance of the 51st Highland Division in Tunisia in the follow up from El Alamein. I wrote this to be played as a tabletop wargame using Command Decision. Ground The coast road between Homs & Corradini in Tunisia. On the right (from the perspective of the British advance) is the sea. The coast road lies a few miles inland at places. There is a steep coastal ridge on the left flank of the battle area with desert to the south. Within all this there are a large number of steep sided, but small, wadis running from the hills to the sea. There are also one or two significant hills that sit astride or on the road. To quote Captain Watt (OC B Company 5th Seaforths). “At the Assembly Area we…
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CLWG Games Weekend 2007 Reports
Siege of Yendor Tryout Jim put on a session to try out the mechanisms for the upcoming megagame. We spent some time trying to bring down a section of wall, and also seeing whether or not it was possible to directly assault the wall without first undermining or demolishing it. Jim's Breeding Idea This was a design session rather than a game, but we gave it a good go none the less. Jim had come away from the Light of the Trees megagame with an idea that it ought to be possible to do a sub-component of a game about breeding heroes using some real genetics theory. The main aim was that, like in real life, the players managing the breeding programme wouldn't actually know what the actual genetic make up of their characters were. Over time those players that were keeping an eye on things…
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CLWG Offside Report – November 2006
There were three sessions at the British end of the November '06 meeting of CLWG; no doubt Daniel and Nick will enlighten us separately on what we missed at the continental meeting. In order of appearance the attendance was Trevor, Mukul, Jim, Brian, John, Peter Howland and myself. The sessions were: Torchwood. A Victorian roleplaying game run by Brian Cameron Starship Marine. A classic figure game run by Jim Remember, Remember. An old favourite re-run by both Jim and Brian covering the gunpowder plot of 1605. Torchwood (Brian) Brian started this off with a short clip from the end of the Doctor Who episode that had inspired the game. The episode (titled Torchwood) involved the Doctor saving Queen Victoria from a werewolf in the Highlands in 1879. At the end of the episode (after QV has knighted and then immediately…