6DW AAR: Breakthrough at Khan Yunis Crossroads
/A chance to get some of my Arab-Israeli toys onto the table as friend John and I fight an encounter from the 1967 Six Day War.
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CDS AAR: Broken Arrow
/Great pictorial Charlie Don’t Surf AAR from the archives of Kevin Gonzales.
A surprise NVA human wave attack led to the American first platoon being overwhelmed. After overrunning 1st Platoon the NVA was able to get within six inches of the company commander, who was forced to call napalm on his own position!
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CDS AAR: Relief of the MACV Compound
/Absolutely brilliant pictorial AAR from John Savage and chums, who played one of the scenarios from the Lard Magazine: Relief of the MACV Compound during the Tet Offensive.
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CDS AAR: Surf's Up #1: The Great Rice Hunt
/Fantastic-looking After Action Report from Alex Sotheran of #stormofsteelwargaming featuring the first scenario from the Surf’s Up! scenario pack for Charlie Don’t Surf. Plenty of great pictures, and there’s even a video.
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CDS AAR: Another River Assault Scenario
/Here’s another pictorial AAR from Kevin G taken from the Charlie Don’t Surf Facebook Group.
Some superb looking action from another river assault game. I’d love to get my figures onto this terrain!
CDS AAR: The Battle for Hue
/Here’s a Charlie Don’t Surf AAR from May that I missed on the CDS Facebook Group: Kevin G running two Battle for Hue games at Kublecon:
CDS AAR: River Assault Scenario
/Here are some fantastic pictures from Kevin G. taken from the Charlie Don’t Surf Facebook group featuring an assault from a brown river force in Vietnam:
CDA AAR: AirCav!
/Here are some game pictures taken from the Charlie Don’t Surf Facebook Group recently posted by Nick Bellamy.
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CDS AAR: Two Battles of Hue
/Kevin G posted some great pictures of the two Battle of Hue games of Charlie Don’t Surf that he ran at Kublacon this year onto the CDS Facebook Group. Here they are again for those who don’t do the ‘book.
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CDS Arab-Israeli AAR: Chariots of Fire
/Steve Blease and fellow Lardy Phil got together to push some 6mm tanks around the table using the Arab-Israeli 6DW variation of Charlie Don't Surf.
Steve devised a basic scenario loosely based around the Battle of Dothan Valley on the West Bank at the start of the June/Six Day War of 1967. Click on the picture below to see all..
CDS AAR: Valley of Tears at Winter Wonderlard 2023
/Yesterday saw the annual Winter Wonderlard Lardie Day in Bristol.
I couldn’t be there myself (real world interfering with gaming again!) but here’s the first of the AAR using TFL company-sized rules from the day, with Steve Blease and his “Valley of Tears” Golan Heights scenario using Charlie Don’t Surf .
There were two sessions: see pictures from both, and others taken on the day, by clicking on the picture, below:
CDS AAR: Valley of Tears
/We're not in Vietnam anymore...
Steve Blease ran through his 6mm Yom Kippur 'Valley of Tears' CDS variant game which he'll be running at the Winter Wonder Lard III Lardy Day in Bristol later this month. Here are a few shots of the action:
CDS AAR: A Writtle Bit of Lard
/Also on show at the Lardy Games Day A Writtle Bit of Lard was a great looking game of Charlie Don’t Surf put on by Nick Bellamy.
Here are some pics, also from Ian Roberts, but this time from the CDS Facebook Group:
And as Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance, here are some shots of the playtest that Nick ran a few weeks before:
CDS at SELWG
/Yesterday, Milton Hundred Wargames Club demoed a game of Charlie Don’t Surf at SELWG.
They had a load of interest, plenty of people stopping and asking after the rules…who later went over to the TFL stand! A big shout out to Full Metal Miniatures for printing the sampans as a test. They’ll be on his web store soon!
Here are some pictures of the game, posted onto the CDS Facebook Group by Steve Thomas.
CDS AAR: The Battle of Snoopy's Nose
/Steve Thomas from the Milton Hundred Wargames Club took a game of Charlie Don’t Surf to the Rapture Festival last weekend. The scenario was inspired by the Battle of Snoopy’s nose.
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CDS AAR: Surf's Up #05: Fix & Destroy Redux
/Nick Bellamy and chums played through the Fix and Destroy scenario from the Charlie Don’t Surf scenario pack, Surf’s Up, again last week.
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CDS AAR: Surf's Up #05: Fix and Destroy
/Nick Bellamy and friends recently played scenario #05 Fix & Destroy from the CDS Surf’s Up scenario pack.
Click on the picture below to see some great pictures from the game, all taken from the CDS Facebook Group.
CDS Arab-Israeli AAR: Don't Surf Down the Suez
/Those lovely chaps down at the Bleaseworld blog have tried the variation of Charlie Don’t Surf! that deals with the Arab-Israeli wars of the late sixties/early seventies, playing out a large-scale tank battle.
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CDS AAR: Aircav
/I haven’t yet managed to get to a Deep Fried Lard yet, but good to see plenty of Lardy gaming taking place last weekend.
One of the games played was a CDS scenario taken from the Surf’s Up scenario pack.
Click on the pic below to see Alastair McBean’s AAR:
CDS AAR: Surf's Up #12: Ambush
/Another great AAR from Mike Whitaker as he plays his first serious game of Charlie Don’t Surf!
This was scenario #12 from the Surf’s Up scenario pack: Ambush!
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