Club Game Night July 16

  Times flies by and its once again club game for the Northern Conspiracy.  As usual three games are offered and you can join in for the fun.  Tonight's battles included World War 2 skirmish, World War 2 naval and a crowd favorite Napoleonic.  Here are the games as written by the individuals putting them on.  Pictures will be of games in progress.

Its great after the break to get together again!

Charlie Galemmo: Napoleon’s Rules of War, 28mm. 

The first day of the Battle of Jakubowo 30 July 1812.

 

Marshal Oudinot was tasked with covering the left flank of Napoleons advance into Russia and ultimately threaten St. Petersburg. In his march he had secured a bridge across the Nitschstcha at Kliatitzy. Russian Marshal Wittgentstein moved to retake the bridge and hold the French advance. The Russians moved towards Kliatitzy but ran into French troops in the town of Jakubowo just a few kilometers from the bridge. What ensued was a set piece battle. The French needed to push forward n their march as well as eliminate the threat Wittgenstein forces had on Napoleon’s main thrust. The Russians wanted to prevent French advance and move forward themselves for the reasons the French wanted to stop them.

The rules will be Napoleon’s Rules of War 2^nd Edition. There will be a wide variety of infantry; grenadiers, standard line and provisional troops. Plenty of cavalry too! Cuirassier on both sides, hussars and of course Cossacks. 

  Phil Hammond and Michael Bailey – Axis & Allies Naval Rules: War at Sea, 1:1200 Ships, 4-6 Players Italy versus England in the Mediterranean 1941.

 We shall bring to you the smack down that those willey British laid on the Italiens in February 1941 when the Admiral sent Force H (consisting of two battleships, one cruiser, and the carrier Ark Royal) to bombard to port of Genoa and bomb two other smaller ports on Ligurian Sea.

    And while the Italian Navy (Regia Marina) tried not to take this all sitting down; coordination, weather and timing was not with them that day.

The force out to intercept Force H missed them by mere hours. The air force? The one spotter plane that found the Ark Royal was shot down by a Skua dive bomber (not even a proper fighter!). And the Luftwaffe? Well, it's an ITALIAN problem, eh?

   But this time... Things may be very different. Come find out how well an modern Italien BB fares against retreaded British battlewagons.

   Could be interesting! 

 Mark Decoteau – 

Red Devils in Normandy, June 7, 1944.  20mm World War II Skirmish using Crossfire Rules. 

After securing the left flank of the Allied invasion on D-Day, the British 6^th Airborne Division continued the fight to secure the areas around Breville, Rainville and Le Mesnil.  

This scenario sets out a meeting engagement between a British Parachute Platoon moving and German defenders from the 711^th Division and attached units.  Units will be trying to secure buildings and prepare their areas as a jump off point for future offensive operations.