Somme game - dispatches

 The Somme game proved to be a most entertaining exercise, and I will leave it to the Brigade Commanders to judge the quality of the Chateau Generalship - but we did achieve a first break through of a front line ...

The weather turned wet, so it became a floor game.

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Communications proved to be remarkably effective - with the use of modern technology ...

A Funny Little Wars game tomorrow - the first day of the Somme, 1916. Tim is hosting the game and I am providing some Chateau generalship ...

This is a multi player scenario with the British fielding a Division of three Brigades - and 180 infantry figures.  There will be an observation, bombardment and attack phase.

Garden Campaigns is currrently being tested, and then a 'HG's Big War' edition is planned for 2023.

Somme Day

Remembering the Highfield and Up Holland boys on this Somme Day, 1st July 1916.

The three Wright brothers, Thomas Holcroft, Jack Foote and Joe Starkey.

And Elizabeth Ellen Holcroft, munitions factory worker in Vickerstown, Barrow.

Fondly remembered today.