With the first official day of winter upon us, it was a good time to be indoors wargaming on Friday night the 1st June. The Mitcham heaters were running to keep the outside cold at bay as many different games were on offer. This included role playing and a first attempt at Saga – a skirmish game about Vikings.

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On Sunday 27th May, NWA put on several displays at Little Wars Melbourne. Little Wars Melbourne is a get together of many of the wargames clubs and wargamers from Victoria. It was held at Club Tivoli, which is at 291 Dandenong Road, Windsor VIC 3181.

NWA put on 4 games: Battle of Waterloo (Field of Glory Napoleonic), D-Day (Flames of War), Stalingrad (Secrets of the 3rd Reich) and WW2 Skirmish (Crossfire). They also ran the Bring and Buy stall to help wargamers sell or buy some old treasures. See photos of the many different games being played. Just click on the "read more" below.

Another Saturday afternoon at the Croydon venue of Nunawading Wargames Association. Early February was the first meeting at Croydon for 2012. Two games each of Lord of the Rings and Napoleonics were there as usual. Plus there were games of Secrets of the 3rd Reich, Pirates and Warhammer 40K.

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1944. The Allies are continuing to push back the Japanese forces. But the Japanese Navy is doing all it can to stem the tide. Amongst the atolls of the Pacific Ocean, an small flotilla of Japanese ships is aggressively patrolling in defense of the likely island targets for the next Allied invasion.

A group of British ships are in transit to join an Allied force, which is assembling nearby. As the Japanese round one of the many atolls in the area, the two groups are surprised to see each other. But both are well trained and quickly swing into action.

John R. reckons he can write my After Action Reports himself; "If only I'd done...", "I should have done...", "I didn't spot..." etc. etc. Funny b*stard!

Unfortunately he's right, though: Last Saturday's game at the Croydon venue turned out to be exactly this sort of game! Robin and I took on Jim's Austrians with our respective French forces at the 1:120 scale, but Robin's arithmetic let him down leaving him with the niggling feeling he'd short changed himself. Events were to prove that he was probably correct!