An ontling pulled itself up over the edge, dirt clodded between its claws, and let out a hissing scream as it threw itself at Falthejn. The diviner moved, snakelike, and the ontling fell a yard past him, blood soaking into … Continue reading
Thanks for bearing with us during our winter vacation. As ever, we’ve had content running at the Fish Bowl (see link at top) to tide you over, but we return to story content tomorrow. To celebrate the New Year and … Continue reading
So the other day, I loaded the game, got out my notebook, and kicked off. Half an hour in, it crashed—the same division by zero error that ended the last scenario. Uh-oh. I tried again. Same result. I tried on … Continue reading
It’s Day 3, 0600 hours, and we have another twenty hours before any reinforcements are due. Before we dive in, let’s look at the events on the real 12th of May. (As ever, my source for the historical context is … Continue reading
I’m a day late, but it’s always a busy time of year. To go with the Winter Wargaming theme, I present a quotation from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German minister and anti-Nazi dissident: For the great and powerful of this world, there … Continue reading
It’s 5:00 a.m. on Day 2. Let’s have a look at the historical context before we dive in to today’s play. The arrival of III Bn, 1st Fallschirmjäger Regiment (it’ll be here in an hour) turns out to have been … Continue reading
And we’re off. I’ll be playing in 25-hour increments, which neatly meshes with the four-week timeframe for this AAR. After some late voting at Bay12, here are the totals: – 2 – 2 – 1 My usual tiebreaker, parvusimperator, picked … Continue reading
Currently: Paulus 2, others 0. If you want to vote, get it in today. Tomorrow, I’ll be playing the next scenario.
Welcome to Winter Wargaming, and Breaking Fortress Holland Part III. This map depicts the whole invasion of the Netherlands. Our path runs along the northern branch of the large, branched arrow, the fourth large arrow up from the bottom: note … Continue reading
After some super-annoying messing around with the server, Many Words is back up for the foreseeable future, on a higher-spec VPS on a better node which doesn’t cost me any more per month. The only thing we lost was my … Continue reading
