"The 10 battles I MUST play before I check out" Topic

1. RORKES DRIFT (Done, but I play this every 3 years or so anyway…… how many Rorkes Drifts do I have left?)
2. BALACLAVA (Done, yesterday. Got minced by Steve's Russian guns, but loved every minute of it)
3. D-DAY (Done, several years ago, all 5 beaches and 4 DZs in one game over 2 days)
4. MARKET GARDEN (Done, a while back now, all the way from Belgium to Arnhem. Made it to the south end of Arnhem bridge, but north end was long since surrendered).
5. BATTLE OF BRITAIN (Done. Persuaded hundreds of people to sponsor RAF squadrons for charity at £1.00 GBP a squadron. One visitor at Derby many years ago insisted on sponsoring a Heinkel squadron …… he was German, and they subsequently plastered Biggin Hill, so he spent wisely!)
6. MIDWAY (Done. All American carriers at the bottom of the Pacific, what a day for the Imperial Navy that was)
7. WATERLOO (Done. The cream of Ney's cavalry sacrificed at the feet of the Brunswickers steadfast musketry …… what?)
8. GETTYSBURG (Done. Can't remember a blessed thing about it, so I'm guessing I may have lost. Shall have to do it again sometime)
9. SOMME (Done. Well, the first day, anyway. Glorious yet horrendous, is the best description)
10. THE ALAMO ………NOT DONE YET! Is this the one that is keeping me young (well, alive, anyway) in anticipation?

How about your Top Ten?

Did midway once, all the landed on the island, even the japanese ones, you can guess why I am sure…

Other than that, that is a good list.

Maybe the big 4 of Marlborough to add, none of them were walkovers, the difference was literally his and Eugenes superior command.

Always fancied Antietam and Shiloh from the ACW as well.

the idea of a D Day of all 5 beaches and lz's in one game, now that I would love a part of, even if as photographer. Ditto for Arnhem, although I have done Frost, we held for 9 days and XXX corps made it, Oustriham was wiped out though, the German hit there thinking he could take it and then the bridgehead…

Crecy would be another good one, if nothing else it would be one spectactular tabletop.

And I have always hankered for Davouts command at Auerstadt, to see what a I could make of it.

I think my top ten would include a number of the above, Waterloo, Balaclava and Marlborough's for sure.

I'd also like to do a big El Alamein game. I've done parts of it plenty of times, but a big one on a huge table would be great.

Marston Moor is another on my list as well as the relief of the Siege of Vienna and some of the battles before and after that. I'm well on my way to both, although all I need for Marston Moor at this point are the Scots.

Pharsalus is another one. I'll start working on that when the Wargames Factory plastics are released.

My list would include:

Waterloo, Borodino, Wagram ,Auerstadt and Quatre Bras from the Napoleonic Era (I've done Austerlitz, Leipzig and Dresden at the WHC in Scarborough)

Rourke's Drift
The Alamo
Blenheim

Gettysburg – all three days (I've done 1st day about 6 times)
Shiloh

Hmmm Pharsalus, nahhh rather do Cannae.

Mine are a bit different than "the norm"…

1. Hattin
2. Manzikert
3. Mars la Tour, 1870
4. Gravelotte-St. Privat, 1870
5. Froeschwiller, 1870 (Done)
6. Gettysburg (Done)
7. Antietam (Done)
8. Daras
9. Koeniggratz, 1866
10. Solferino, 1859

1. Arnhem. Done several times ranging from Frost at the bridge and fighting in the corridor to the complete campaign three times. The Allies won the campaign once.

2. Waterloo. Done twice. France 1, British 1.

3. Koeniggratz.

4. Operation Epsom. Done bits but never the whole thing.

5. Arras (1940) – never got around to this for some reason.

6. Operation Crusader. Done. British won.

7. Operation Bagration, or at least more of than the bits I've done.

8. Cambrai. Done twice.

9. Solferino. This one is more of a challenge than Koeniggratz, it is huge.

10. Operation Goodwood. Done the whole thing once, worth doing again. Done lots of bits.

Hastings
Stamford Bridge
Agincourt
Crecy
Rourke's Drift
Towton
Bosworth Field
Jaffa
Helm's Deep
Pelannor Field

Trenton (done)
Lexington/Concord
Brandywine
Prestonpans
Guadalcanal
Plains of Abraham (done)
Bushy Run
Wyoming Massacre (done)

Midway (Done)
Trafalgar
Jutland
Wagram
Borodino
Auderstadt
Gettysburg all 3 days
Market Garden
Bushy Run
Kursk

Sekigahara
Isandalwana
Waterloo
Breitienfield
Rocri
Lepanto
Siege of Malta
Teutoburger Wald
Gettysburg
Saint Privat

1. Gettysburg (done – well, the 1st day at least)
2. D Day (done, several times until we got bored with it)
3. Arnhem (done, last year over a weekend)
4. Tsushima (nearly got all the ships now to be able to do)
5. Naseby (but I don't know anybody with ECW armies at the moment)
6. Rorkes Drift (done – same comment as D Day)
7. Gravelotte/St Privat (will have to try with the new Polemos FPW rules I bought at Salute)
8. Tanga (nearly got enough figures for it)
9. Barnet (done once in the 70s – like to try it again)
10. Blenheim (have to paint my 6mm Marlburians first)

1) Sekigahara (working on figs)
2) 4th Kawanakajima (working on figs)
3) St Privat (have unpainted figs)
4) Barnet (just ordered figs, having painted)
5) Ain-Jalut (have figs, need to clean off gaming table!)
6) Ankara (1402) (Have Ottomans painted, Timurids unpainted)
7) Bannokburn (have the Scotts in 25mm unpainted but re-thinking about battle in 15mm)
8) 2nd Homs (have both armies painted but too few figs)
9) Mimigawa 1578 (working on figs)
10) Tannenburg 1410 (no figs)

Did Chickamauga some years back,Wagram too. Santiago Bay and the Alamo also. Too many to trim down to just ten. But they would encompass land,sea,and air.

1) Lutzen 1632 (done)
2) Cynoscephalae (done)
3) Gaugamela (participated in)
4) Marston Moor
5) Overloon (done)
6) Reichswald 1945
7) Shrewsbury
8) Granson
9) Arras
10) Warsaw 1656

1. Hastings
2. Sanderhausen (done several times)
3. Rossbach "
4. Leuthen "
5. Monogahela "
6. Plains of Abraham
7. Ste. Foy
8. Trenton
9. Camden (done several times)
10. Cowpens on tape for tonight

the list woudl go longer if I extended it to the ACW and Napoloenic period

We need to do a campign for Quebec using the block game for the strategic game.

Cowpens is on tap, not on tape.

So many great battles…….. just one more that I would have to add.

Camerone….

Big Martin, I have everything done for Tsushima, if you ever get to Portland, Oregon, drop me a line, I will even run the Russians! (One of my favorite battles to play)