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Tango0118 Aug 2026 1:34 p.m. PST

"Wargaming actions in the Middle East in World War 1 offers games with more manoeuvre than you might expect on the western front (as do games set on the eastern front, incidentally). Jon, Andy and Murray joined me for this Great War Spearhead game fought using my 6mm armies. The Figures are all from Irregular Miniatures, while the river gunboats are scratch built.

While I have the current scenario books for Great War Spearhead that cover the earlier years in Mesopotamia ('Heart Breaking Affair'), and also the Gallipoli theatre ('Our sons as well'), I opted for a fictional scenario that I designed to capture some of the more interesting aspects of the Mesopotamia campaign, with Arab irregular allies (infantry and camels) to the Turkish troops, and gunboats for the British…"

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