This is a blog about the hobby of war gaming and the variety of things associated with it.
I’m located in Mantorville Minnesota and within the Rochester Mn area, the LaCrosse area, and the twin cities you can find I’ll take in a game.
There are two game group I’m involved with. The one in Rochester has been around for a very long time and I think I first gamed with them back around 1994, or 1995 when I was introduced to the crew via Bruce Laue. What an introduction it was, I’d been a gamer since the late 70s and after college when I moved to Rochester I just hadn’t run into anyone that shared the interest of table top miniature gaming.
With the group in Rochester, we play lots of different rule sets depending on the period and scale of the lead we want to use. Command Decision, BAR, Final Argument of Kings, Red Baron, Johnny Reb, Wooden Ships and Iron Men, Warfare in the Age of Reason, Battleground, just to name few.
The LaCrosse crew is pretty much a Flames of War group which I also find very fun.
Up in the twin cities I try and take in ReCon at least once or twice a year and those are all variable games.
So in the blog, expect to see lots of After Action Reports as well as some amount of I just bought X, you might like it too as well as some research kinds of things.
I am also a re-enactor as a fifer with the 21eme a French Napoleonic Group, as a private with the 25th US a War of 1812 unit and as 1st Sgt of the 3rd Minnesota a US Civil War unit.
Nice blog!