Hot Blood & Cold Steel

Category: games

  • 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…