Category: modern

Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner

Somewhere on my list of things to do is superhero wargaming. There aren’t a whole lot of manufacturers making cape stuff in 15mm, which means that a little more creativity than usual is in order. Particularly if you’re going to play in somebody else’s universe.  Naturally enough, being a...

Modern Warfare: Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Guys

Welcome to plus-ultra mega-elite modern day wargaming where we feature stories ripped from the headlines.  Which naturally means stories that are as fake as the Piltdown Man. To do that we’ll need some modern terrain (working on it), some rules (Osprey’s Black Ops), and a matched pair of forces....

The Very Model of A Modern Wargame General

 The modern table continues to take shape. A bit of screen, a bit of scrap wood, and a bit of sand… And you’ve got some nice tall fences. I’m not crazy about these fences.  I should have oriented the screen diagonally to make a diamond pattern, and the cloth...