With another summer season of wargaming drawing to a close in the Devon Wargames Group, I thought I would draw a line under it by highlighting a few games that had not featured on the club blog but were enjoyed by members attending in July and August and are very emblematic of the rich diet of games and themes we enjoy regularly in the club.
The club continues to grow and now regularly hosts four sometimes five games each meeting with it not uncommon to have close to thirty members attending at any one time and we still attempt to make sure everyone is included in a game on offer and to encourage members to organise and host games at future meetings.
So it gives me great pleasure to present three more games that have featured this year in the club calendar in July and August 2025.
WWII, Chain of Command
WWII in 28mm and 15mm is a very popular theme in the club as it is in the wider hobby and the DWG plays a lot of games from the Too Fat Lardies stable of offerings, which of course includes Chain of Command, recently updated to the new version of the rules.
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Jack & Charlie hosted a father and son team effort of Chain of Command, with Charlie taking the lead in this his first game presented at club, incorporating the 28mm WWII collection he has been building and treating us all to a very nicely turned out Normandy themed action.
Romans versus Barbarian Tribesmen - Midgard
Warfare from the ancient period of history is another popular theme at club and who doesn't enjoy seeing a nicely painted collection of 28mm Early Imperial Romans bringing a bit of Pax Romana to a group of hairy looking barbarians out and about causing trouble on the Limes.
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Jason treated the club to his very nicely turned out collection and an opportunity to try out the Midgard rules published by the Too Fat Lardies and written by James Morris.
Finally this month, the club was treated to a bit of Vietnam action from 1969 bringing back memories for older members in the club of the Summer of Love, Jimi Hendrix and 'Hanoi Jane' Fonda.
Chas brought along his collection of Vietnam themed figures and terrain to host a game of Force on Force that produces a very playable representation of modern warfare between forces of similar organisation and capability as well as the asymmetric warfare between regular and irregular troops.
With September close at hand, the club is gearing up for its new autumn season of games which will include our annual Lardy event, 'Clotted Lard', together with our Gus Murchie Memorial Big Xmas Game and potentially an additional event in the planning to go with our normal feast of games featured at club.
So lots more to come in 2025.
JJ
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