Historical Miniature Wargames
My latest project is some Afghan opponents to my Cold War Soviets. These figures are from Elhiem and Sandsmodels. Even though they are quite different in style – elhiem is very naturalistic with realistic proportions, sands models are more chunky and stylised – they seem to mix quite well. This is a very early stage in the painting, with most …
We’ve been busy re-learning Force on Force after a long stint of Napoleonics. We are preparing for an 1980s Afghanistan campaign, and we felt it might be a good idea to do a few training games before risking any valuable campaign assets. I do declare we were right. It is amazing how much one can forget about the rules if …
We wanted to see howForce on Force would work with slightly larger scenario and so we gave it a try with couple of mechanized Sov platoons reinfrced with a tank platoon. Defending against the red onslaught was a platoon or so Germans. More or less in the vein of our Germany 1984 FoF Campaign. We didn’t notice any new problems …
I’ve seen some excellent pictures online of the models people have created for IED and objective markers for Force on Force. This is my first attempt. We play Force on Force with 20 mm figures, so I used some 1/72 diorama accessories I had lying around (perhaps from Fujimi) and HO scale crates, bags and wheelbarrows from a Preiser model …
We got the FoF campaign rolling. The games re actually very quick to run and you can play 2 or even 3 during an evening. To add variety we had charts from which we could purchase assets for each game after rolling how much points we had to spend. Unlike our normal games we also used the fog of war …
Force on Force is our favourite skirmish ruleset for many reasons: it’s fast to play, you don’t need a massive investment to start playing, the core system is elegant, and it is good for a wide range of scenarios. Here is a list of the house rules and clarifications we have used in our games.
Janne N had once again brewn a nice and very topical scenario for 20mm FoF that managed to have four separate sides with different objectives. Our stage is a quiet if more than somewhat bombed out Syrian rural town. A closer look reveals little activity. There is plenty of ruins, car wrecks… and what looks like a truck still …
After the summer vacation we did the second game for the tryout FoF campaign. Unfortunately with just so few pics I just can’t recall anything else that me and Mr V were playing against at least Aksu. I have vague recollections of persistent fighting near the oil tank but that’s about it. Sorry! The chits are, btw, used as objectives. …
Moving from Blogger to our actual site with our after action reports. Which also means that I’ll have to get off my lazy butt and polish up the pictures and write some texts as well. No more Mr Lazy Sod! We decide to check how FoF’s own campaign system worked and decided to play a short campaign Germany. Instead …
We made these cards to help us determine the mission in our FoF campaign games. You can use them in conjunction with the full rules on page 147 of the book – just print them out on the paper size of your choice, cut out, and use as handy reminders of what your team should do. PDF – A4 size …