Hot Blood & Cold Steel

Author: james

  • CLWG December 1999

    What you missed at the Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group (CLWG) December 1999 meeting. The CLWG December 1999 meeting started from 12 at John Rutherford’s house and we played until after 9pm. Afterwards we chatted, with the aid of several bottles of wine, until almost midnight. In total we had 13 members at the meeting. It started…

  • Invasion of the West – Onside Report

    Invasion of the West was a Cold War turned hot alternative history game that I ran at the March meeting of Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group (CLWG).  Having cast around for someone to do a plan for Invasion of the West Mukul volunteered, even though he wasn’t able to turn up on Saturday. Mukul’s plan is…

  • Chaos, Confusion, Cowardice & Incompetence (C3I) – Onside Report

    One of the things you missed [at February’s CLWG meeting] was C3I which actually turned up and was played in the afternoon (because I always turn up at lunchtime and much prefer twice as many half-day meetings). Although this was a figure game it was scenery light and what was used was pretty abstract and…

  • Cameronians

    Cameronians

    A second hand war story about the Cameronians in the 1950s.

  • AD69 Megagame of the Year of Four Emperors

    Write up of what happened at the AD69 Megagame of the turbulence in the Roman Empire when they had four Emperors.

  • It's No Picnic!

    Collected press releases/public statements made by the players and the umpire produced Headlines for the Frost City Herald during the Disaster Simulation Tryout Game run by Megagame Makers on Saturday 17 May 1997

  • On the Bounce – CLWG Game Report

    A post-game report from CLWG’s February 1997 meeting

  • Serenity Station Post-Hunt Report

    In character game report of the Serenity Station megagame that I played in on 21 September 1996.

  • Design Session for "The Lion Comes Home" – Onside report

    This CLWG session yesterday was a very loose and rambling affair with myself and three (or perhaps four) others in John Rutherford’s living room. Despite the great number of digressions I managed to get quite a few useful pointers about structure, level of detail, team composition and, importantly, how much more research I had to…

  • A Young Officer’s Guide to Fighting in Built Up Areas (FIBUA)

    I promised that I would do a bit on Fighting In Built-Up Areas (FIBUA) because I thought that I would be able to add one or two bits of my experience to the pool. Because of laziness I thought that I would just provide the following extract from an Aide Memoire I acquired whilst an…

  • CLWG Games Weekend 1995 – Sunday

    Sunday Military Spin Sunday dawned a new day and I had done my homework on the Charge of the Light Brigade. The reason for my homework was Jon Casey’s game at lunchtime which involved each one of the participants being given a piece of paper with a great military disaster. As originally set this had…

  • CLWG Games Weekend 1995 – Saturday

    This was the first Chestnut Lodge event I had attended and I must say that I enjoyed it. I was fortunate enough to have read the last few editions of MilMud. So I had a vague-ish idea of what was going on. I managed to find Chestnut Lodge eventually and turned up in the middle…