Having recently read FINLAND AT WAR: THE WINTER WAR 1939-40 by Vesa Nenye with Peter Munter and Toni Wirtanen, followed by watching the DVD of THE WINTER WAR: THE TRUE STORY OF A BATTLE AGAINST ALL ODDS (The film is also known by its Finnish name, which is TALVISOTA.), I was inspired to set up and fight an imagi-nation mini-campaign based on the Winter War.
I created a campaign map using MS Paint …
… sorted out suitable troops from my Megablitz collection (I used German troops to represent the Finns – who were called Opelanders in the campaign – and Russians to represent the troops of SPUR … the Soviet Peoples' United Republics), and off I went.
Blog entries which describe the background to the war and the subsequent battles can be found by following the links shown below:
A Winter-ish War: The background link
A Winter-ish War: SPUR's Air Force mobilises!http://wargamingmiscellany.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/a-winter-ish-war-spurs-air-force.html
A Winter-ish War: The outbreak of war link
A Winter-ish War: Day 1: The SPUR attack in the left-centre sector link
A Winter-ish War: Day 1: The SPUR attack in the right-centre sector link
A Winter-ish War: Day 2: The SPUR attack in the right-hand sector link
A Winter-ish War: Day 3: The SPUR attack in the left-hand sector link
A Winter-ish War: The armistice and its aftermath link
These wargames also gave me the opportunity to play-test my most recent ‘Modern' version of Joseph Morschauser's ‘Frontier' wargame rules, which lend themselves to fighting small battles in limited space.
