Cult Of Games XLBS: Forgotten World War II Battles YOU Can Play!
April 26, 2026 by crew
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Happy Sunday Backstagers, CoGs and OTTers. It’s a Solemn ANZAC weekend in Oz. Perfect to finish off with some gaming.
Necropolis sounds interesting. I like the idea of an army just being Reg Shoe
Mary. Whitehouse experience was just 4 people though Jo Brand guest starred occasionally so that’s Shay definitely sorted
Happy Sunday Back stagers.
Milky milky…. A niech joke from the 90s there
Lovely
I read that as a Nietzsche joke for some reason..Maybe Milk is dead 🤔
Doon Mackichen was the regular female comedian on The Mary Whitehouse Experience.
Hello Backstagers!
Play WWII battles? Nah.
00:00 Touch grass!
02:00 Weird BBC TV references? oO
09:30 Tactical and beautiful? Sounds a lot of effort.
17:17 UWU costs?
18:00 Look! One for Justin!
26:50 Bring out your dead!
32:00 WWII – History but with guns
1:01:00 Naaah… don’t want.
1:15:00 I had a stroke
Now. What to do?
Thanks for the GB 🙂 Lovely stuff from the other winners.
I loved the Mary Whitehouse Experience. I’ve still got my History Today t-shirt from the Newman and Baddiel tour.
As to niche WWII I always fancied having a go at the other African theatre with the British and Indians plus local allies against the Italians in East Africa. You can get good use out of your early war North Africa campaign armies and the older vehicles and kit.
Happy Sunday……
Necropolis, sounds like a game to go nuts for terrain building.
Happy Sunday everyone. Okay so time to spill some beans, especially for Ben! 🙂 Castle Itter is in the works for one of the future Operation Packs for BUTCHER & BOLT. It just did not make the cut for this campaign but I had already started working on it, so hopefully something I can complete and test out in the near future as well.
Thank you for the Golden Button. I’m completely unworthy of it.
You want unusual WW2 campaigns? How about the Anglo-Free French invasion of Madagascar? Defended by Vichy French you get some Indian Ocean amphibious campaign action. French vs French jungle warfare!
Or how about the Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse? Lindybeige did a whole video about it. Seems that a British gentleman’s club that theoretically was part of the Indian Army reserve, but last saw service in the Boer War, was called upon to do a covert mission vs a suspected German spy ship in a neutral harbor. SOE needed plausible deniability if things went wrong because they were attacking a neutral ship in a neutral port. Could be a fun scenario for 0200 Hours.
Or how about Filipino guerillas vs the Imperial Japanese army? Some of the guerillas were survivors of the Filipino Scouts, also known as the 26th Cavalry Regiment of the US Army. A few managed to escape the surrender at Battan. As the war progressed the US used submarines to land small teams officers to contact and coordinate the guerilla groups as well as to bring in supplies. You could play using the partisan rules for Bolt Action or 0200 Hours for smaller raids. The raids on Los Banos and Cabanatuan involved US Airnorne, US Rangers and Filipino guerillas trying to liberate prisoners of war and civilian internees held by the Japanese. Lots of potential there.
Or how about the war in China? 1937 to 1945, Nationalist Chinese, vs Japan. Or the Communist Chinese. Or the Warlords. Sometimes all four at the same time both for and against each other. A massively underrated theatre of war. The Nationalist army had German trained and equipped troops, plus Communist Chinese soldiers they had a temporary truce with to so they could both fight the Japanese plus private armies raised by various warlords. It’s a weird and wonderful mix of German and Allied equipment fighting an absolutely brutal Japanese army. Warlord Games did rules for Chinese armies in the Empires in Flames supplement.
@brennon I forgot to add that the Swedish band Sabaton did a song called The Last Battle about Castle Itter. To learn more about the battle and the song check out Sabaton History for a neat video by Indy Neidel.
Way back in the day our gaming group did a display game at various shoes based on one of the smaller actions during the 2nd Battle of El Alamein, based on the Rifles epic stand st the snipe ridge.
Milky, milky
Yay XLBS time’s👍
Fab XLBS guy’s 👍