Sitrep Podcast - Historical Wargaming

28/12/2024

𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 "𝗣𝗮𝗻𝘇𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹" 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 - 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗹𝗴𝗲 𝟴𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆
Join us as we fire up the 1993 SSI Classic "Panzer General" ("PG Forever" fan edit) for an 80th anniversary wargame of the Battle of the Bulge.

In late December 1944, the Germans launched a desperate, all-out offensive in the quiet Ardennes region of Belgium and Luxembourg. Initially surprised and woefully overpowered, the Americans must recover, stabilize the line, bring in reinforcements, and organize counterattacks to defeat this last frantic gasp of the German war machine in the West.

Join us for conversation, get units named after you and track their battlefield fortunes, or even join in! Can our Americans stem the German onslaught and turn the tide in time? Tune in and find out!

Join us as we fire up the 1993 SSI Classic "Panzer General" ("PG Forever" fan edit) for an 80th anniversary wargame of the Battle of the Bulge. In late Dece...

28/12/2024

Looks like I will also be busy with about 66 new 1:72 insurgents for modern Middle East. Put them on my own bases and primed. Will be chewing on the paint and basing for about the next month. 😅

27/12/2024

Reinforcements for my 28mm 1943 Americans. M3A1 halftrack with x3 .30 cal + .50 cal, Jeep with .50 cal, M1919 . 30 cal team on tripod, 81mm battalion mortar team, and 6 more US infantry Warlord sent me for some reason (although without bases - maybe some were supposed to go in the back of the halftrack). Trying to bulk up this force so I can put them against the DAK force I “won” at the 2018 Bolt Action boot camp.

25/12/2024

Merry Corps-mas to everyone!

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21/12/2024

𝗢𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗝𝗶𝗺 & 𝗣𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀! (𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 - 𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬 - 𝟭𝟮𝗣𝗠 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗨𝗦 / 𝟱𝗣𝗠 𝗨𝗞 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲)
Oriskany Jim and Piotr have completed their tours of the Ardennes battlefields, marking the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.

Suffice it to say not everything went according to plan - including emergency (life-saving) surgery and unexpected hospital stays. But hey, now we have some great stories from the trip.

Best of all, however, after ten years of legendary friendship and collaboration, Oriskany Jim and "Yavasa" Piotr have finally met face-to-face!
Join us as we share memories and insights from our travels in this special holiday live stream!

Oriskany Jim and Piotr have completed their tours of the Ardennes battlefields, marking the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. Suffice it to say n...

13/12/2024

Oriskany Jim is free!

After four long nights and days, I'm out of the Bastogne Hospital. Plenty of prescriptions and self-care procedures await me in the coming weeks, but nothing unusual.

Many heartfelt thanks for everyone's support and well-wishes over the last few days. It's definitely been trying . . . having this happen right when you land to begin your vacation. But we've moved some things around and can now salvage about 2/3 of our original plans. Cest la vie.

Photo below: Oriskany Jim moments after his escape! Back to the front! 😅😅😅

12/12/2024

Still “pinned down" here at Bastogne Hospital, in the heart of the Battle of the Bulge area in southern Belgium. Getting better every day, though. Also, I got a big boost to morale with a visit from an old member of the Sitrep Podcast and friend of the channel, not to mention a graduate of the "Oriskany Panzer Leader Command School". After ten years of fellowship, passion for history and hobby, and transoceanic friendship, I finally got my face-to-face first meeting with Piotr Frąckowiak.

Thanks so much, Piotr, for coming by to see a friend in the dark on a cold Belgian night!

All fingers crossed, I SHOULD be out of here tomorrow. Not 100% sure, but hoping for the best.

10/12/2024

Well, suffice it to say this isn't the Battle of the Bulge 80th Anniversary trip I had planned. While in the air at 35000 feet I came down with what turned out to be appendicitis. We got to Bastogne where I went in for emergency appendectomy surgery. I'm out of surgery and in the hopsital for five days of recovery. Hopefully we can salvage a few days of the trip after that. Good news is we caught it in time.

08/12/2024

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08/12/2024

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08/12/2024

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07/12/2024

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01/12/2024

𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝘂̈𝗿𝘁𝗴𝗲𝗻 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁: 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮’𝘀 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲? (𝟭𝟱𝗺𝗺 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 - 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟮)

Join us as we finish up our wargame commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest.

The system we’re using is “Battlegroup” by Plastic Soldier Company and IronFist Publishing. The engagement in hand is the German counteroffensive of 4 November, 1944. Here, Kampfgruppe Bayer slammed into the 112th Regiment of the 28th US Infantry, driving them out of Schmidt, through Kommerscheidt, and up the timber trail toward the Kall River Bridge.

So far the action’s been pretty wild, with both sides drawing plenty of special “Battle Rating Counter.” The Germans finally have their tanks in position, along with panzerfaust-armed grenadiers. But the Americans are also calling in their P-38 “Lightning” for an air strike!

Check it out to see how this battle finishes up!

Join us as we finish up our wargame commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest.Link to Part One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

30/11/2024

Marty Schaefer … lookee what I got! 😉