It was a lucrative month in terms of historical wargaming. I was able to play a large refight of the battle of Eylau, along with a few “pick up” games of “Valour & Fortitude” with my 10mm Napoleonic figures. I plan on posting some photos from the Eylau game and a battle-report from the V&F game soon.
According to my 2026 Wargaming Schedule, next month (March, 2026) is “Cold War” month and I am going to run some experiments with the US Army’s old “Dunn-Kempf” rules and see if I can bring them ever-so-gently into the 21st century with some standardization and streamlining. I may post some ramblings about that soon and a Quick Reference Sheet for future games. March will culminate in a large “Fulda Gap” styled battle with the old US Army H or J-Series MTOE (Modified Table of Organization and Equipment).
Here are some pictures from recent games:
So while I’ve been playing mostly Napoleonic games this month, I’ve also been continuing on with re-building my 20mm force once my son expressed interest in playing “Bolt Action”. Since Santa got my son his first pack of 1/72 scale toy soldiers this past Christmas (Italeri American Paratroopers) and 20mm was my first-ever scale going back to when I was 12, I decided we would play BA in 20mm / 1/72 scale and I’ve started building a German PanzerGrenadier platoon next to Andy’s 101st Airborne troopers. Here are some pictures so far of the progress:
Anyways that is all for now. Stay tuned as a Battle Report is coming soon. I may also post a Napoleonic Scenario (Lindenau, 1813) for Valour and Fortitude next.
-DF
Der Wütende Dackel 
Great to see that you have got your lad involved in the painting production line 🙂
The freebie plastic sprue on front of the wargames Illustrated this month deals with the new WWII Soviets from Warlord Games … I have snipped of enough parts to make two figures! Oh no … a distraction 🙂
Odd, the software hasn’t recognised me on this post! Norm
Hi Norm! I saw your email address so I saw I knew it was you! WordPress has its share of issues just like Blogger
I told him – well since you asked!!! I needed to press him into service given the sheer amount of plastic that needs to be painted in a short amount of time! 🙂 WWII draws me ever-closer! Apparently I’m back in the 20mm game again. Scale Creep!
Great to see you back sir. And the 20mm plastic looks superb… did i hear you mention podcast a few episodes ago? 😉
cheers, Darren, thank-you sir 🙂
yes I was looking for a different platform for sharing that was not blogger (or even a blog, per se).
my first thought was a newsletter but I wont pay for MS publisher and word and Google doc templates are either too elaborate or too plain for newsletters and so I kind of left that behind.
a podcast or some kind of conversational platform would be interesting…
Good for you to work on passing your problem… I mean “passion” on to the next generation – my son had no interest. OTOH, he is now expressing an interest in Army at the 1:1 scale, so we will see… 😮
Scale creep note: it isn’t scale creep, if the figs are getting smaller as you get older… it’s actually “vision creep”
🙂
Alex
Hi Alex good to hear from you sir. Yes this problem is definitely being passed on. I was very happy to hear he was interested so naturally I bought a ton of 20mm stuff to play Bolt Action. Youll be pleased to hear he hated Flames of War 🙂
Im glad to hear your son is interested in 1:1 Army. Take him to the West Point museum – he’ll be hooked!
Crazy – I swore the figs were getting smaller 😉